It can be fairly stated that all humanity like all democracy is, in every sense, a work in progress. From its very beginnings the American experiment in self-governance was thought by many to be the World’s best hope for all mankind. This glowing praise was extended even as a sound and seemingly thriving nation eventually…
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The cancel culture club
Make no mistake about it, the religion of America is Free Market Capitalism. The first commandment of that religion is ‘Thou shalt have no other gods before the Almighty Dollar!’ At the end of the day, when forced to choose between an exclusive club membership and the love of the income stream provided by the…
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Arriving at a new normal
At the one year anniversary mark of America and the World shutting down in response to the rampant spread of a lethal contagion, new leadership working with the required scientific progress has humanity almost ready to emerge into a new post-Covid future. We may not have a clear idea of where we are going, but…
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The joy of rediscovery
Here we are in the twelfth month of a global pandemic and all of a sudden all the inconveniences it has imposed on us over nearly a year do not seem nearly as daunting. It could be due to the fact that more people are receiving Covid-19 vaccines than are becoming infected with the virus….
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Of 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…
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The significance of finishing Volume 46
It is by pure coincidence that the election of the 46th President of the United States happened in the year of the 46th volume of the personal daily journal kept by Yours Truly. It is also just a mere coincidence that the vast majority of the preceding forty-five volumes of that personal daily journal chronicle…
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Our long trip back to reason
It has been over a month since enough votes were counted after the November 3rd General Election to declare a Presidential winner of the Electoral College vote. Despite incessantly repeated cries of “FOUL” by the runner-up and his water carriers, there has been no credible evidence produced to substantiate any of their claims of voter…
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The priceless benefit of a clear conscience
There are two absolutes which apply to all members of the human species: 1.) the heart of every living one of us will eventually stop beating and 2.) we will be expected to pay our way legally via taxation or illegally however we can until it does. Beyond those two givens there are no guarantees…
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Slogging the last mile
Finally, we wake up and it is October 2020. It is the last full month before the November General Election and here we are. Many of us are getting that giddy feeling like we can see light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. Just about all of us felt this way in the…
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Embracing who and what we are
As summer eases into autumn, we find ourselves six weeks away from what is described by all accounts as “the most important Presidential election of our lifetime!” No doubt the November 3rd General Election looms large ahead of us in the midst of the sinister miasma known as year 2020 CE, but that doesn’t mean…
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