Without doubt, a cleanly and frequently mowed lawn of some variety of grass was the paradigm for our front and back yards when we were young.
Many of us today, however, if we had it to do over again, would opt for something far friendlier to the environment, not to mention easier to maintain.
It’s hard to know how the mass deportation of law-abiding though undocumented workers will turn out. Here are a few possibilities:
The economic collapse of entire industries like farming, construction, hospitality, and the management of restaurants.
This exercise in stupidity and cruelty renders the United States a rogue nation which hurts us economically and diplomatically.
The intercession of the judiciary, which causes a constitutional crisis when its decisions are ignored.
At left are the words of billionaire Mark Cuban, offering an observation on the U.S. president that we don’t encounter every day.
Look, I understand that we, as flawed human beings, are capable of electing a flawed president. But I still can’t get over the fact that Trump seems to be composed of 100% flaws and 0% redeeming value.
It’s great to see the new pope promoting kindness. This represents real change from the entire history of the church before Pope Francis came along in 2013.
Actor and political activist George Takei writes: They are taking money from the poor to hand to the rich. We must reject the “Big Beautiful” Bullshit.
Indeed we must. It’s shameful.
At left is another good example of how the MAGA folks twist language for their own purposes of hate and ignorance.
An ad from a shirt manufacturer called “Kosini.” Check this out! I think you’ll really dig this style. A great gift for yourself or someone special!
It’s cute, but sorry, not for me. I don’t glorify war.
In fact, neither should you.
The words at left are from former Republican congressman Joe Walsh, and he’s precisely correct.
That we live in a country where tens of millions of people can’t see that is just astounding.
Many progressives hope Trump somehow dies, though I’m not among them. The only path to redemption for this country, if it exists at all, is for the common citizen to realize that everything Trump stands for is distinctly unAmerican. This includes racism, cruelty, injustice, ignorance, and above all, criminality.
What 20th Century French philosopher, historian, and political activist Michel Foucault (no relation to the 19th Century physicist Léon Foucault of pendulum fame) said here is entirely correct, and it’s what has made life in America so jarring over the past decade.
Since the origin of democracy in ancient Greece, and certainly since the founding of the United States 250 years ago, there have always been rival political parties with their competing philosophies on important matters like the proper role of government in our lives. Until recently, however, we lived within certain norms and boundaries that made America generally worthy of praise.
Yet today, we have somehow arrived at a point of pure insanity in the form of presidential criminality and the near complete absence of rule of law, as supported by almost half of U.S. voters.
For the first time in our lives, tens of millions of decent people are waking up to find that our “dominant cultural settings” are not what we believed them to be; in fact, they no longer exist at all.
