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The Shallow Pond of Daytime TV

16 Jan 202027 Jan 2020

With the exception of the four o'clock hour, daytime MSNBC is polluted with off kilter punditry and whacky airheads. When it comes to the Democratic party and its primary contenders,…

The End of the Republic Has Never Looked Better

It was the last White House correspondents dinner, April 30, 2016. President Barack Obama said a few words that have lingered in my mind for years. Those few words taken…

2020 Presidential Election…

Pete Buttigieg Drains the Pride Out of Gay

9 Apr 20199 Apr 2019

First, the disclaimer: YMMV. Not every lesbigay/queer person has the same coming out story. However, Pete Buttigieg's whiny public lament about his gay identity strips all the pride out of…

The Trump-GOP Divorce Is Nearly Final

1 Aug 201730 Dec 2018

Mitch McConnell choked back tears after his last ACA repeal failed. It's hard to know whether he mourned the defeat of his effort to delete Obama's legacy or if he…

2016 General Election…

We Take on the Mantle of Citizen

18 Jan 20172 Apr 2019

A gnashing of teeth is penetrating social media - this angst deepens as 20 January draws nearer and with it, the reality of a Trump presidency. "We're on our own…

2016 Election…

Hillary Clinton (Kate McKinnon) performs Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

13 Nov 201630 Dec 2018

I couldn't feel so I tried to touch. I told the truth I didn't come to fool you. Hoping Kate McKinnon touches you.

“Goodbye To All That” – Robin Morgan’s Call to Arms

10 May 201630 Dec 2018

It was February 2008. Hillary Clinton was on her way to the Presidency. Renowned feminist, writer, poet, mover-and-shaker Robin Morgan produced this eloquent call to arms and painfully real tribute…

Breaking Through the Patriarchy

7 May 201630 Dec 2018

Forty years after I taped Robin Morgan's passage from "Monster," on my bureau's mirror, which starts "I want a women's revolution like a lover. I lust for it, I want…

2016 Election…

Redux Revolution Pt. II: Sanders, Alinsky and the False Campaign

20 Apr 201617 Mar 2019

Part One of this series looked at Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and how Bernie Sanders overlays Alinsky in his campaign process. This second part continues with a look at…

Let the liberal…

8 Sep 201328 Jan 2019

Let the liberal turn to the course of action, the course of all radicals, and the amused look vanishes from the face of society as it snarls, “That’s radical!” Society…

Alinsky on certainty and doubt

8 Sep 201328 Jan 2019

The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and…

Eye Rolls and Snipers

22 Jan 201330 Dec 2018

I suppose by now the video showing the First Lady supposedly rolling her eyes at Speaker Boehner at the Inaugural brunch is embedded in just about every so-called progressive publication,…

Wagging on the Short Leash of Insanity

17 Jan 201330 Dec 2018

I've decided we are being played. And we are falling for it. "We" are the bloc of intelligent, thoughtful, reasonable and usually quiet people who make up the bulk of…