A Hiatus and a Warning.
If you don’t see any blogs in the next few days, don’t worry. Trump’s minions have not come for me. Webmaster Xavier is making improvements. Here’s the email I got this morning: They...
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In a Strange Land
As Trump’s apparatchiks sort through citizenship applications from long, long ago, apparently threatening to revoke my right to live in America, my desire to stay grows ever less fervent. I hardly recognize America...
A Dispiriting Picture
I get weary when I read that Trump’s approval rating is consistently above 40 percent and Fox is number one among cable news channels. I am stunned when I learn 80 – even...
Is This a Joke, Nancy?
According to a news item I just read, Nancy Pelosi suggested at a town hall meeting on Wednesday that impeaching Trump would further “divide the country” and could do more harm than good....
Salmon under Attack
The salmon that swim in the Columbia and Snake rivers are under attack. And I’m not talking about sea lions and other natural predators or hazardous weather conditions. Those are dangerous enough but the salmon have –...
Trump’s White Tide
Sandra and I watched part of Trump’s rambling, self-aggrandizing rant on CNN Saturday night, and I was disheartened by the sea of white faces behind him. These people didn’t care what he said,...
Panderers and Manipulators
Who does today’s Republican Party represent? They give Big Business massive tax cuts while stiffing the working guy. And their Dear Leader announces devastating tariffs on imported steel and aluminum – just as Big Labor...
The Suspension of Sanity
The ancient Greeks warned that those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. Don’t you wonder, as I do, whether “the gods” are engineering the destruction of America? For starters, the election...
Legacy of a Tainted Election
Now that we have all seen how the Russians meddled in the 2016 elections, you might think the courts would give Americans a mulligan. Voters were tricked into making the wrong choice, so...
Making America White Again
When I was a boy, the sun never set on the British Empire. And in colonies like Jamaica, we were subjected to a pseudo-English culture. Our exam papers were graded in Britain, we...