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Category Archives: Commentary
2025: The Fallen
Remembering this day those who lost their lives fighting in wars under the American flag. I make no attempt this day to adjudicate the justness of any of those wars; there are other days for that. (image credit) Every year … Continue reading
Two anniversaries
One somber, one celebratory. The first one happened three years ago today. The Wife and I were vacationing in the Finger Lakes region that weekend, and we got back to our cottage after a day visiting the Glass Museum in … Continue reading
Tabs! Get ’em while they’re open!
Time to clear out some tabbage: :: Two morons were convicted in Great Britain of cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree. Good. :: Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, 80 years old and battling cancer, has called it a career. Tilson Thomas … Continue reading
See, that was more of a one-time thing….
I’m not like many Americans when it comes to the “Founding Fathers”. I do not fall a dead-faint at their feet, the way many of my fellow Americans do. I find that sort of thing fairly performative, and I get … Continue reading
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Well-wishes
UPDATE: Sadly, Mr. Drum has died. If fact, he had already passed when I wrote this. Liberal blogger Kevin Drum is very ill. Back in the hey-day of blogging–oh, from roughly 2003 to 2009 or so, at which time Facebook … Continue reading
No answers….
Note: I have edited, and added to, this post several times since it went live. This is because my thoughts on this subject are a mess, and there’s a good chance they present as such in the material below. GRADY: … Continue reading
Letters to Congress, one
I’ve just drafted a letter that I will be printing out and mailing to my Representative tomorrow. I will be doing a lot more of this, and when I do, I will share the texts here. I have plans already … Continue reading
Clarity from Mr. Gibson
America’s right wing is a lot of things. It’s impervious to facts, immune to empathy, and prone to conspiracy theory. It worships wealth and loathes its absence, and it is sexist and racist and homophobic and transphobic. All of these … Continue reading
Never forget:
Everything that is to come is what we wanted. That is all.
A metaphor
In the “Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying” department, a snippet from Friends that seems to me sadly applicable. Joey’s refrigerator has given up the ghost, and his solution was…this. Happy birthday, America. I guess.