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REVOLUTION OR OBEDIENCE…
Perhaps,at 70 years old, I ve reverted to being that clueless teenager in high school who yearned to become Henry David Thoreau. Are the Right, Center, and Social Democrat Left Now Invoking the American Revolution…to Forbid It? By Tad Stoermer Ken Burns is on his fifty-fourth or fifty-fifth press stop telling whoever will listen that the [ ]
TRUMP IS NOT THE PROBLEM, CONGRESS IS…
I ve struggling to get back into the flow in these dangerous times. The copy below is from Public Historian and John Hopkins professor Tad Stoermer. I m presently reading his just (on 2 June) published A Resistance History of The United States and my head is spinning as I unlearn 99.9 percent of what I thought [ ]
JAKE TAKES 55 MINUTES TO GET THERE,BUT HE IS CORRECT…
I regularly watch Jake s videos and I nearly always agree with him. This video bothers me, not because he s wrong, but because he buries the lede and I fear a great number of viewers will never hear the important message. So, I ve clipped the video to start at what I think is the important bit. [ ]
JON STEWART NAILS WHY I AM A LITTLE ‘D’ DEMOCRAT…
So, I m still in the fight and I want don t want to let the perfect become the enemy of the good, but from where I sit, outside of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Jamie Raskin, I m not seeing much good in the Democratic Party at the national level. I think that here in Ohio, the [ ]
“EVERYTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE UNTIL IT IS DONE” –NELSON MANDELA…
I m not a Big-D Democrat, but I have three times solemnly sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I first took that Oath in 1975 and I hold it in my heart today. Senator Bernard Sanders has taken a similar oath more than a few [ ]
CRISIS IN AMERICA: 2026 WILL BE TOO LATE…
In the past I have used phrases like Let the tumbrels roll and referenced Phrygian caps, but after watching the discussion between George Conway and Sarah Longwell, I must say that I agree with Conway: the guardrails are gone. We the people, in the streets, is all that remains. November 2026 is too far away. [ ]
“DEMONIZE, DOWNSIZE AND PRIVATISE…
YOU, SIR, CAN KISS MY PATRIOTIC BEHIND…
THE BEST JON STEWART IN MY MEMORY…
So, there is way too much to even begin commenting on here. I have watched a lot of Jon Stewart and I have loved 95-percent-plus of what he has said, but in my limited memory, this is his best interview and best discussion. Enjoy!
WHAT’S A PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT TO DO…?
So, this morning I started watching the above video and stopped at the 28:14 time mark asking myself the question in the headline. For the record I am not a Big-D Democrat. I grew up in the party and my family s political roots are firmly grounded in the Suffrage and Union movements, but that changed [ ]
FROM 11 SEPTEMBER 2018
BIBB AND ROYNANE GIFT-PACKAGING RICHES TO HASLAMS
Who sez we need a massive land bridge from the Mall to the lakefront? Steve Litt? There is one of the biggest corrupt schemes in the works to provide an easy access to lakefront land. This rivals the Chagrin Highlands dealing in dirty politics. Mayor Justin Bibb has legislation ready to create another body that [ ]
ALICE COOPER: JACKKNIFE JOHNNY 1978…
While writing this morning I m listening to Alice Cooper s album From The Inside. When the record was released on 17 November 1978 we had only been back in San Diego for 110 days and I would not buy the album until the following March when by best bud, STG2 Duane Weaver, and I would attend [ ]
ONE-HUNDRED-THIRTY-SEVEN BULLETS; TWO DEAD…
So, yesterday Roldo Bartimole emailed me: I watched “137 bullets” on Netflix. It was very good. Have you seen it? I looked back and I did write about [the killing of Timothy Russell and Marissa Williams by Cleveland police]. If you have the energy maybe you could repeat the 2015 piece with an opening blurb. [ ]
JIMMY BUPKIS RENACCI: MAKE OHIO LIKE FLORIDA…
This nightmare showed up in my email inbox this morning. I read Jimmy s political biography last year and for about 30 seconds I thought I had the man wrong. There is a reason the phrase Florida man has become a laugh line. Do we really to go there? Bonus No. 1: How anti-abortion advocates are [ ]
THOUGHTS FOR THIS YEAR’S THANKSGIVING TABLE…
From Jamesleo on this morning s Daily Kos: Every shelf was stacked and prices didn t appear much different from last year. As if all this talk about shortages and inflation were “talk” In this isle I had the unexpected encounter with a Trump supporter. She was in her cart , amazed at the selection as I [ ]
THIS IS OUR TWO- ONE-PARTY POLITICAL SYSTEM…
Democrats and Republicans are the front for the Pro-War Pro-Business Party.
PAST STILL KEEPS REPEATING ITSELF HERE
Editor s Note: Maybe 15 years ago at one of our monthly blogger meetups, someone who had lived in Cleveland all his life berated me for talking about Roldo Bartimole. The blogger s position was that Roldo was a broken record who kept bitching about all the money going to Cleveland s three sports franchises and my friend [ ]
FROM WHERE THE IDEA FOR ABSENT SON CAME…
In my 40s, friends who never served in the military started to approach me about my own experiences. They felt that they had somehow missed out on some quintessential male rite of passage. Those conversations were the genesis of my current, American Reconstruction novel in progress: Absent Son. Bonus No. 1: And for all those [ ]