Helping people survive cancer doesn’t sound like a horrible failure to me…
The Affordable Care Act has its flaws, there’s no denying it. Healthcare costs are continuing to rise and with the individual mandate, it’s put a lo...
Tag: politics
On Chelsea Manning’s Commuted Sentence…
I don’t think that I ever actually watched the infamous horrific video that was leaked by Army intelligence analyst Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning bac...
Thanks, Obama…
Looking for a little political inspiration as we prepare to stare down the dragon with Donald Trump’s own inauguration now soon upon us? I just finished w...
Is the USA Too Big When We Have to Subsidize Air Travel to Small Towns?
Now before I get too far into this, I want to say that I’m not really sure if this is a good use of taxpayer money or not. Our tax dollars go towards lots...
Short Fiction : Reckoning
The year is 2030 – some fourteen years after Emperor Trump was unknowingly elected to be the last President of the United States. History books – wh...
Can’t We Have Donald Trump From 2005 Instead???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQlRudkD0bE Another YouTube video blog post … I suppose it’s just that kind of day, but I stumbled across these vide...
Then Stop Doing Racist Things…
An ongoing theme that I’ve been noticing over the last week, and honestly something that I’ve keyed into for a while, is that frankly a lot of peopl...
Day #4 – A Trumped Stream of Consciousness, Part 2…
It’s hard to say whether things are truly cooling down or if social media has just gotten quieter over the weekend because people are actually out doing t...
Wishlist for a Better Democracy – A Diligent, Nonpartisan News Media
I may end up writing a whole series of posts on this topic – we’ll see how it goes – but in spending a lot of time over the last couple of day...
Day #2 – A Trumped Stream of Consciousness…
Last night’s post really blew up on Facebook in ways that I didn’t intend. I purposely made it public instead of using off my No Politics filter and...