Voters Want Change
If the Democrats are going to make a difference in this country they need to stop worrying about being labeled socialists and communists and get to work doing what needs to be done. This humble spirit has previously expressed disappointment with the current Democratic leadership—Schumer, Jeffries, and that little goon of a party chairman—and my […]
The AI Bubble
As we approach the mid-term elections, a lot of people are deeply unhappy about the state of our country, not to mention the world. The stock market, fueled almost exclusively by the hysterics of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, is making the rich even richer, while most Americans have been left behind with nothing to […]
Ideological Clowns
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “State of the Force” address last week just about said it all when it comes to MAGA macho paranoia. He proclaimed he had transformed the military through his policies of “no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors.” What Hegseth wants, of course, is a […]
Garbage In, Garbage Out
You probably assumed this humble spirit would be up in arms over President Trump barring three left-leaning news outlets from the White House, but I’m finding it hard to get worked up about. Americans have a constitutional right to a free press, but when it comes to Trump’s White House press corps, it’s mostly just […]
Suppressing America’s Voters
If you’ve had a chance to peruse my website, which needless to say I strongly encourage, you’ll see that I talk a lot about the Jim Crow era —100 years of racial discrimination that lasted from the end of Reconstruction to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s—when Black folks were subjected to terrible violence […]
“Not Nearly Long Enough”
Can President Trump ever speak like a…well, president? Hasn’t he ever heard the expression, “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”? “Not Nearly Long enough” was his only response when asked if the USS Abraham Lincoln, one of America’s two aircraft carriers currently engaged in the war with Iran, […]
Ugly Unhuman Commies
President Trump’s recent fixation on “communists”—seemingly in response to the recent success of numerous “Democratic Socialists”—not only reminds this humble spirit of the 1950s “Red Scare,” but of that awful book from a couple years back, Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them). The authors claim the American left—people they characterize as […]
“We had Transgender for Everyone”
According to President Trump, everyone was transgender during the Biden Administration, or as he put it, “We had transgender for everyone.” Really? As ridiculous as it sounds, that statement probably contains more truth than his insistence that the 2020 election was “rigged” or his claims that our entire election system is a crooked, vulnerable mess. […]
Happy 250th, America!
Our nation’s 250th birthday should be a time to celebrate everything that makes our country great, what we all hold dear and unites us as Americans, but regretfully, recent events have led this humble spirit to embrace the phrase popularized by Maya Anjelou: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them.” Talk about an […]
Green Slime and a Ham
Is President Trump the slime or is he the ham? Take your pick; he’s always a terrible ham, and as one of the greatest con men who ever lived, he’s about as slimy as they come. I’ll stop now before poor Dr. Seuss turns over in his grave. How fitting that the company that installed […]
“K-Shaped” America
The latest economic news—besides chip stocks crashing last week—is that, according to the Labor Department, the U.S. added a seasonally adjusted 172,000 jobs in May, beating expectations. As always, certain sectors posted exceptional gains or losses. “Leisure and hospitality” added 70,000 new jobs. “Local government” increased as well, with 55,000 jobs, its biggest monthly gain […]
The $1.776 Billion “Thug Fund”
“Utterly stupid, morally wrong.” That’s what retiring Republican senator Mitch McConnell called President Trump’s proposed “Anti-Weaponization fund,” otherwise known as the $1.776 billion “thug fund.” What a terrible way to celebrate our country’s founding and 250th anniversary, but leave it to President Trump. I wish I could explain exactly how the fund will go about […]
The Matthew Effect
The latest economic data indicates the wealthiest 10% of Americans now account for half of consumer spending, or to look at it the other way around, 90% of the country is responsible for only half of consumption. Wow! In other words, our society is now so out of whack that the richest Americans are responsible […]
The DOJ vs. the S.P.L.C.
The latest target of President Trump’s weaponized Department of Justice is the Southern Poverty Law Center (S.P.L.C.), a non-profit organization based in Montgomery, Alabama that works to combat right-wing hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Since its inception in 1971, it has served as a “catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, […]
Unlike Anything Seen Before
Have you noticed that when President Trump isn’t threatening to blow something up, his favorite phrase is “unlike anything anyone has ever seen before!”? He says it constantly, even when it makes no sense, which is most of the time. If every American got a dollar every time Trump used that expression, we wouldn’t have […]
The “Strait of Trump”?
The “Strait of Trump”? What happened to Trump University and the Trump Winery? Donald Trump has spent his life putting his name on just about everything (most recently the Kennedy Center), so it’s not surprising he wants to add a Persian Gulf waterway to his collection. Otherwise, except for this latest branding opportunity, the president […]
In Desperate Straits
The more our megalomaniac of a president and his raging sycophantic secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, try to assure us that things are going “swimmingly” in Iran (that’s the term Anne Coulter used in the early days of the Iraq War), the scarier it gets. Whatever disaster the United States encountered during its forever wars […]
Black People Aren’t Apes!
And kudos to Rep. Al Green (D-TX) for Creating a Scene at the Start of the President’s State of the Union Address. Your humble spirit is embarrassed to be writing about such things in the year 2026, over 150 years after emancipation and 60 years since the end of Jim Crow. I don’t think many […]
Your Winnings, Sir
You don’t have to be an old soul hanging about the planet like this humble spirit to know your classic movies, and I’m willing to wager that most of you have seen Casablanca, one of the great movies from Hollywood’s golden age, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. The movie contains numerous iconic lines, but […]
Trump’s “Fascist Tendencies”
This country is well beyond wakeup calls when it comes to the threat posed by Donald Trump and his administration, but if ever there was one, it’s Pam Bondi’s DOJ arresting journalists for doing their job. What we saw last week was a violation of the First Amendment unlike any in recent memory. This humble […]