Eight years ago this week a piece was published on this blog containing a detailed analysis of the candidate who had emerged as the GOP frontrunner for the 2016 Presidential Election. Regular readers may remember the August 2015 posting entitled The appeal of a narcissist. Probably the most pertinent and prophetic statement contained therein was…
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On our way to another Oklahoma City
Oklahoma, the home state of Yours Truly, is endowed with an embarrassment of riches like none other in the Union. It is a place of natural beauty and mineral resources inhabited by people with a can-do industrious spirit who represent a very colorful tapestry of multiple cultures, lifestyles and faiths. As a hub of trade,…
Continue ReadingDemanding our right to not get shot
Few things set the United States apart from other nations like the Second Amendment. We may search high and low among other industrialized nations and not find anything in any other constitution that has had as many judicial interpretations guaranteeing any citizen the inalienable right to arm themselves with weapons intended for use only in…
Continue ReadingOur expensive demand for fatal justice
Legally killing a person as a criminal sentence has been with Judeo-Christian civilization since the time of Moses and with the human species since long before that. The demand of an eye for an eye has been not only tolerated throughout the ages but promoted and showcased by many governments as a means of ultimate…
Continue ReadingOf seditionists, insurrectionists and sunshine patriots
So, nobody ever thought it could happen here. Who in America or any other place that ever regarded this nation to be the last best hope for human self-governance ever had such a specter enter into their thinking? Outside the conceptual confines of a dystopian novel or movie script, it was just plain unthinkable, wasn’t…
Continue ReadingFact & fiction about elections, voters & fraud
Voting is the one activity essential to a functional and vibrant democracy. A government dedicated to upholding the first fundamental principle of a democratic society religiously holds periodic free and fair elections where all eligible among the governed have unobstructed access to electing their leaders. Democracy works best when all constituents involve themselves in the…
Continue ReadingA nation of normalized corruption
If you have ever found yourself in the unfortunate circumstance of being in a toxic and dysfunctional relationship characterized by daily physical and/or verbal abuse, public humiliation, intimidation, deceit, infidelity, impropriety at your expense and outright hostility to the point of being in a constant state of fear or anxiety, you know better than most…
Continue ReadingResonating echoes of Nuremburg
One thing about ringing a bell is that is can never be unrung. As it cannot be unrung, it can also never be unheard. Its clear and clarion tone, once generated and once heard, will be forever remembered by all reached by its distinctive clang. This concept may be relatively easy to understand but I…
Continue ReadingPicking up the pieces of shattered trust
So we never thought it could happen to us. I’m sure we would all love to think that. This particular train of thought is a familiar cerebral pathway unique to many of us who, either directly or indirectly, have ever had to negotiate their way through the fallout generated by the shambles such an awful…
Continue ReadingA bad week for Republicans
I don’t believe I have ever described what it is like as a liberal looking up from this particular stretch of Old Route 66. Politically speaking, we are like at the very bottom of an extremely deep canyon. When we look up all we see are Republicans dropping mostly crap and an occasional few bread…
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