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I’m off today and looking forward to chasing the little white ball across the grass. My game still sucks – but it does so more consistently now. This has been quite a week for American democracy. To start with, the President of the United States just came out and basically
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Donald Trump murdered Herman Cain yesterday. “No, he didn’t!!” you say. “He died of COVID-19. He was not murdered.“ Really? Who browbeat people into supporting the extraordinary level of ignorance regarding this disease that Trump has fostered for over six months? Who decided to hold a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
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From time to time, I love to use this quote from the movie, I Robot: In my Facebook memories, today came a post from 2016, which I posted during the Republican National Convention. In it I shared, some words from my favorite political writer Charles Pierce, who recognized what so
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John Lewis passed away this weekend. It’s truly a sad day for this country – especially in light of the fact that the events of this year have shown how far the nation still has to go to achieve fairness and equality. John Lewis was in the struggle from his
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We’re on the train to BangkokAboard the Thailand ExpressWe’ll hit the stops along the wayWe only stop for the best We are not boarding that train anytime soon. Of that, I am pretty sure. You can thank the orange monster for his colossal incompetence for that. And even though Soi
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While I have never been a part of the cult of James Mattis, I do, nonetheless, respect him, and I respect his judgment. For the last few months or so, I have been waiting with increasing disappointment for him to speak out against the malice and incompetence of the orange
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I have watched in depressed horror all the flare ups of violence across the country tonight and it makes me glad I am not in the continental US right now. Tomorrow I will put up a post on the subject – advancing what some may think is a controversial theory.
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This has been one hell of a week. We veered from 1918 to 1968 with a dash of 1881 thrown in for good measure. At this point, I am so disgusted with my own country. I cannot stand it. The country needs a 9.9 scale earthquake in the Gulf of
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This one picture pretty much sums up the state of America today. And it’s more than just a touch ironic coming as it does on Memorial Day weekend when we are supposed to be honoring the sacrifice of those who died to make America “free”. In case you were asleep
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I am becoming more and more convinced that Trump has been persuaded to just let the virus wash over the US. Someone has convinced him it’s better to go about business as usual and bet the death toll is not enough to fuel public outrage any further. Trump is gambling
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