My Journal

I’ve spoken before about the “worst of the worst” in Congress, the “MAGA” Republicans who never shut their moronic mouths, but perhaps I’ve been negligent ...

Among the definitions of “limbo” found in Webster’s Dictionary are the following: A place or state of oblivion for persons or things cast aside, forgotten, ...

What a disturbing time this is for our country.  After twenty years of fighting terrorism in Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East, it feels like ...

As disheartened as I am by some of our fellow citizen’s steadfast refusal to protect themselves from the Delta variant, this humble spirit finds himself ...

Give me death!  What the hell?! Polling now shows white Republican men are refusing to wear masks and get vaccinated because they don’t want to ...

Sometimes politicians are quoted unfairly, because they’re not prepared for the question and don’t have time to think.  But when someone submits an editorial for ...

Since last week, when I vented my frustrations about people refusing to take a life-saving vaccine finally available to them, the situation has gotten even ...

As someone who lived in the middle of the 19th century, well before the advent of modern medicine, I find myself utterly perplexed that so ...

If you’re looking for a catalog of the worst lies and propaganda spewed by MAGA Republicans during the Trump era, look no further than the ...

Last week President Biden signed an executive order “promoting competition” in business, which will hopefully help stem the ever-rising tide of inequality in America.  In ...

We’ve now learned that when a group of “Trump Republicans” should have been in Washington to vote on the January 6 Commission (to investigate the ...

How can anyone fail to be struck by the degree of raging anger held by a sizeable group of the American people, mostly white supporters ...

This past week witnessed two no-brainer votes in Congress: 1) establishing Juneteenth—a commemoration of emancipation—as a federal holiday; and 2) awarding the Congressional Gold Medal, ...

Critical Race Theory (CRT) is the Trump Republican’s latest boogeyman, both on the stump and in Republican dominated statehouses across the country, and they are ...

Am I the only one getting more than a little impatient with the Democrats, both the Biden Administration and in Congress?  I constantly rail against ...

Before I go on another rant about the foolishness of QAnon believers, let me explain why I sometimes sympathize with believers of Trump’s “big lie.” ...

Presumably your humble spirit isn’t the only one whose frustration and anger is growing over police bodycam footage not being used for its intended purpose—that ...

Regretfully, I am beginning to wonder if some people—that is, the MAGA crowd of Trump supporters—aren’t downright crazy.  I understand that Trump fed them the ...

I’ve written a lot about the Republican Party being at war with itself and falling apart, but now it has unquestionably evolved into the “party ...

Despite what Republican Senator Tim Scott of the “great state” of South Carolina says, we all know that America is undeniably a racist country, a ...