I’ll own it. I’m hopelessly optimistic; about some things; and America is one of them. Our outlook seems bleak right now. Hell, our outlook is bleak. That’s because the forces opposed to American democracy have put all their cards on the table. We are living through their Hail Mary, last ditch chuck toward the end zone far, far downfield. We think our situation’s bleak because we think the ball…
Words matter. In a democracy, they matter a lot. Ours is a do-it-yourself government. We don’t have a king or a dictator to solve our problems because we chose to solve them all ourselves – using the majority’s wisdom. In order to do that, we have to agree on a couple of things: to begin with, what are our problems? To solve that question, we all need to be on the same page. We need to agree on…
America A Christian Nation? God Forbid!
Is America a “Christian Nation”? God forbid! Fundamental religious faith and rule-of-law democracy are mutually exclusive propositions. Fundamental faith demands unthinking fealty. Rule of law democracy demands that we think. While the men who wrote America’s founding documents were all Christians of one stripe or another, Deism “subverted orthodox Christianity“. Many of America’s founders…
Judge Aileen Cannon Makes Mitch McConnell Smile
Few things make Treason Turtle Mitch McConnell smile like the thought of corruption. When history finally judges us and this particular patch of time, Mitch McConnell will be of our uber villains. Mitch personally destroyed our government’s judicial branch – an act of total betrayal. I bet “Mitch McConnell’s” name will replace “Benedict Arnold’s” as the epithet Americans use when they want to…
Republicans Believe “Every Sperm Is Sacred”
Strange, isn’t it? With conservatives, it always comes down to gonads. Now, I’m not saying every conservative is sexually repressed – Hot Tub Johnny Bolton was notorious for being unrepressed in a crazed, sex party kind of way. But, as a party, Republicans sure do spend a lot of time thinking about other peoples’ reproductive organs. They have zero problem telling women their bodies become…
