At left are the words of Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician Antonio Francesco Gramsci. Without doubt, there has never been a time, at least since the 1930s, that featured a more horrific set of world leaders. Whether …
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Trump’s Personality Is Different from Most People’s
Imagine you constantly made embarrassing mistakes like the one at left. Wouldn’t you want to dig a hole and crawl into it? Trump doesn’t function that way.
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Is This the End?
As much respect as I have for Supreme Court Justice Jackson, I seriously doubt that we’re watching the end of the United States as a constitutional republic. Yes, this is what Trump is trying to engineer, and it’s clearly the …
MAGA “Freaks Out?”
I’m not sure “MAGA freaks out” is accurate. The MAGA folks are completely used to the “radical left” hating on Trump. Normally, surveys like this one are composed of the opinions of hundreds of historians, and guess what? The Horror! …
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Why Republicans Don’t Recycle–Hint: Don’t Ask Me
I overheard a conversation the other day on recycling, in which one of the participants said, “Ha! I don’t recycle. I’m a Republican!” When I was a little boy in the early 1960s, my parents, who were several generations deep …
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Let’s Not Kid Ourselves: We’re Really Not Kind, Decent People
The point made at left is a valid one: Cruelty for its own sake is a huge part of who we have become as Americans. Maybe this isn’t new. Maybe we’ve simply been unmasked.
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Almost Every Day Brings a New Ghastly Reminder
Scarcely a day goes by that Americans aren’t slapped in the face with some sort of horrible reminder as to how stupid we have become over such a short period of time. When you read what our Secretary of Defense …
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The Canadians Visiting the United States Are not Representative of their Population as a Whole
In an earlier post, I mentioned that the Canadians I meet on a daily basis seem to accept what’s happening in the United States with fairly cool heads. Of course, I’m meeting these Canadians here in the U.S., meaning that …
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Defending Ourselves Against Corporate Aggression
Corporate America seems to be at war against its consumer customers. Driving up profits by increasing prices, shrinkflation, and other forms of corner-cutting are everywhere in our lives. On top of everything else, we have products that simply don’t work, …
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Certain Canadians Have Huge Problems with the Reduction of the U.S. into a Police State
The Canadians I meet on a daily basis seem to accept what’s happening in the United States more philosophically than former Member of Parliament Charlie Angus. Holy cats! Check this out.
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