1Jun 16, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions could not have picked a more apt Bible quotation to justify the forcible removal of children from their immigrant parents. Yes, Romans 13 does counsel Christians to obey the law, even says the lawgivers were put in power by God–though God is not the name I would give to the electoral […]
2Jun 7, 2018
I am definitely the last person who should be saying this, but yeah, Samantha Bee was over the line when she called Ivanka Trump something that is euphemistically called “CU Next Tuesday.” Since my third year of college, which is close to half a century ago, my own mouth has been regularly in need of […]
3Mar 30, 2018
Two hundred and thirty years ago, a promising experiment in self-rule died in its infancy. The United States of America was already in serious trouble when delegates from twelve of the thirteen former colonies met to hammer out a solution to the Articles of Confederation, a government contract so weak and ineffective that it never […]
4Feb 15, 2018
The madness is getting closer. You have enough school shootings–and this was the eighth in the still very young year of 2018–eventually you’re going to be touched. I was working on Valentine’s Day, which means I shouldn’t have been taking a side trip to CNN, but with the daily train wreck in Washington, it’s hard […]
5Feb 8, 2018
Well, she did it to me again. Last year, my smallest cat, Abby, a little demon if ever there was one, broke into my AC duct, ripping out slats from the grill in one to get in there, and pushing out the grill of two others in an apparent attempt to get out, only she […]