Online purchase of two tickets, four rows back from Stage Left: $216.00 Pre-concert dinner of Coneys, Frito Pie and iced tea: $8.95 The cheapest swag item and two skunky draft beers: $43.00 Taking in the sounds of one of the most iconic bands of my youth in the same venue where I paid to see…
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A 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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Theater review: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
It is true what they say, the sailor may leave the Navy but the Navy will never leave the sailor. When the presiding officer of this fictional court martial entered from Stage Left and the actor playing the uniformed court orderly sounded off “Atten-HUT” I had to stop myself from popping tall. The Tulsa Performing…
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The teetering Trump Tower of cards
We are now approaching the halfway mark of the 45th President’s “First 100 Days” and in spite of being beset by numerous self-inflicted setbacks, the President is pressing on with his agenda. Just what IS the intention of President Trump? We should make no mistake about it. The man is following the policy input of…
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Turning back the Conservative tide
Regular readers may recall posts over the past couple years where I have taken note of generated by high court decisions in favor of some of the pressing progressive social issues of our time. A year ago I posted about in the aftermath of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Obviously, I was not the…
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The GOP’s pact with Satan
With total control of all levers of government, it is reasonable to state that it is high tide for the Republican Party as they hold majorities in both chambers of the U.S. Congress and hold the White House. One thing about high tides, they always eventually recede. I’m curious as to what all the receding…
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Approaching the line of departure
The American nation has survived three weeks into the Donald J. Trump Presidency and the contrast in the performance of a novice administrator and the expectations the job demands of a public servant could not be more glaring. With less than one month gone since his inauguration, President Trump has yet to begin making the…
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The United States of Oceania?
We have survived into the second week of President Trump’s America and to say this has been a newsworthy few days is an understatement. In just over one week there have been over a dozen Presidential Executive Orders including some that impose unconstitutional overreach on specific segments of the population. Through it all, the President…
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The spreading miasma of Trump voter remorse
We are a week into Donald Trump’s America and we are seeing a lot of the things we expected. The newly sworn in 45th President wasted no time in commencing the execution of his agenda. Much of it he did the first day and the rest followed in the first week. Among the things he…
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Beginning benchmarks for the Trump Administration
Just to confirm reality, the sun did in fact rise in the east the day after President Trump was sworn into office. Even though the day was cool and overcast, many turned out in support of the Million Woman March in Washington, DC and around not only the nation but across the entire World. Amid…
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