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A racist litmus test.
Right wing memes are like right wing comedy. They are not funny. They are mean spirited, illogical, and often prove the point they are disputing. Take, for instance, the below meme posted on Bookface...
View ArticleI despise Rahm.
It is difficult for me to put into language the anger I feel at Rahm's reelection. For most of my adult life I have striven to remove hate from my life, but "democrats" like Rahm, and Andrew Cuomo, and...
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A Definition of Duggary.
In response to Dan Savage's great idea, I'd like to propose a definition for Duggary: [Dugh-ar-ree] noun 1. To pay no attention to obvious child molestation and hope it goes away. "As the below chart...
View ArticleBernie vs. Hillary: Both Siderism and False Equivalencies
Civility is important in political discourse if we really want to hear and understand each other. To be very clear, what I write below is about the Clinton campaign, not Clinton supporters. I am...
View ArticleStupid and Sorry
My deepest and sincere apologies to the dailykos community, those who saw my last post, and anyone else. In cases such as this I think excuses undermine forgiveness and healing, but explanations can...
View ArticleOpen letters to people who won't read them.
Am I embarrassed for my country, or am I just embarrassed? Like so many of you I thought we had it in the bag. Possible wave election! We might win back the House too! Writers and pollsters who had...
View ArticleChoose Hope
As much as I feel otherwise today I'd like to express some hope. Firstly, thank you to all the protesters who are in DC today to act on their constitutionally guaranteed rights to dissent and assemble....
View ArticleDear Senator Franken,
Right now many men are getting an education, myself included. This is a good thing, but I cannot help but feel the loss of you not being in the Senate fighting the good fight. Your intelligence,...
View ArticleSoldiers died for this?
I've seen good, decent people express their concern online about the erasure of history, heritage, and claiming that soldiers died for this history and heritage. As a historian I have some strong...
View ArticleNatural Allies
It’s been heartening to see the left coalesce behind Biden but there is still work to be done. At this point the right is so far out that they revel in caging immigrant children, and they support...
View ArticleRacist Catholic Priest had to resign due to DUI in 2009
As reported in Rawstory, Father Theodore Rothrock of St. Elizabeth Seton Church in Carmel, IN sent this message to his parishioners regarding BLM: “The only lives that matter are their own and the only...
View ArticleWhy didn't Garland act earlier?
There has been speculation that Garland finally acted because of the pressure generated by the Jan. 6th Committee. That makes sense to me, and it’s a possible partial explanation of why he acted now....
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