I had to wait a couple of days to write about the Uvalde slaughter of children and teachers. I had to wait because I was so angry. Angry that, again, we are going through the same set of senseless deaths. Angry that this happened while they were still burying victims from Buffalo’s mass shooting at… Continue reading Again, and again, and again…..the cycle never ends.
Category: How to really make the world safer
A rage worth having and expressing.
It certainly has been an unexpected first three months of the year so far. A senseless war in Ukraine with conservatives cheering on the wrong side for a great while, rising gas prices – while refusing to blame the robber barons of the oil companies, and the stock market getting schwacked by those two things… Continue reading A rage worth having and expressing.
The great resignation is not what the oligarchs think it is.
One of the things that led me away from the Republican party forever was its descent into madness – punctuated by a fiendish adaptation of cruelty and selfishness. What I could not abide, as one who actually has made a study of economics, is the way they blithely dismissed the steps of economic progress the… Continue reading The great resignation is not what the oligarchs think it is.
Will the Navy learn the lessons it needs to?
Despite all the blowback from folks in certain circles and the continued whining of the surgeaholics, I remain firm in my conviction that getting the hell out of Afghanistan was the right thing to do. Most of the objections to the policy decision have no factual basis anyways – and very much continue to ignore… Continue reading Will the Navy learn the lessons it needs to?
The overall strategic situation has not changed. And tactical setbacks should not change the overall long-term aim.
The amount of intellectual dishonesty by suregeaholics and others is disturbing, to say the least. And the tragic events that occurred on Thursday morning are sad and will be so for a long time. However, probably the most frustrating thing of the last couple of days is to see how quickly a convenient, yet totally… Continue reading The overall strategic situation has not changed. And tactical setbacks should not change the overall long-term aim.
The grieving process is continuing….and the only proper response to our Red Hat wearing citizens.
It has been well over 7 weeks since I have had the will to put my hand to keyboard and write anything of significance. Sure, I’ve been attacking the usual idiots on Twitter and also been observing the closet fascists from my alma mater trying to wreak their havoc, but on the whole, watching the… Continue reading The grieving process is continuing….and the only proper response to our Red Hat wearing citizens.
The captives will forge their own chains
This is a warning. If there is one thing that can be learned from Senator Joe Manchin’s cowardly failure this week, there are too many Americans who have no understanding of this country at all. But, unfortunately, all of Joe Manchin’s talk about the need for a bipartisan bill for voting rights appears to be… Continue reading The captives will forge their own chains
The price is not right.
It’s Golden Week in Japan. That succession of holidays strung together designed to encourage Japanese citizens to go somewhere and spend some of their hard-earned yen. In Japan, May 1st is not a holiday, but many people take it off, and to the rest of the civilized world is Labor Day. Of course, in the… Continue reading The price is not right.
The future’s not bright, so you don’t gotta wear shades.
Actually, the future of the post COVID world is down right depressing. A lot of people are assuming that once everyone gets vaccinated and herd immunity is supposedly achieved the world will go back to normal. Except, that’s not what is going to happen. A “return to normalcy might have been possible if the United… Continue reading The future’s not bright, so you don’t gotta wear shades.
Stupidity on Parade
At what point does typical American selfishness become callous and premeditated negligence? That’s the question the New Yorker posed last month when it published one of its famous long articles on the struggle of the city council in Minot, North Dakota, to implement a commonsense precaution against COVID, a mask mandate. The article takes an… Continue reading Stupidity on Parade