This clearly isn’t the type of country that Americans want to live in.
That’s why the mobster lost by more than seven million votes.
This is as close as a free society can come to failing, while still making it through.
We all need to stand behind whatever pieces of our democracy that are still in place, and remove this human malignancy.
And people say we have nothing to celebrate. Horse hockey. Rush Limbaugh is going off the air.
For more than 30 years, Limbaugh, the country’s most popular incendiary radio talk show host, had been spewing his hate speech into millions of Americans’ minds. (more…)
We’re surrounded by reminders of how 2020 has been a year of events that make no sense.
Here’s a photo of a contemporary furniture design that underscores this very point.
Imagine that a survey had been taken annually since the inception of the nation, in which 1000 randomly chosen Americans were asked if they agreed or disagreed with Melville’s statement here. I’m guessing that a large majority would have agreed with only a few exceptions throughout U.S. history, e.g., perhaps the Second World War….until about 1980, with the onset of neoliberalism, along with all its components and derivatives: greed, selfishness, indifference to others’ suffering, robo-consumerism, hatred of immigrants, the rapid decay of ethical standards, and the return of socially acceptable overt racism.
Of course, this is represented in the type of people we elect to lead us; we’ve gone from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump in just 40 years.
Some of us have not given up. My email signature is the title of this post. Please feel free to make it yours too.
You’ll not find a single organization on this planet more dedicated to environmental sustainability via the removal of waste in our lives than the Story of Stuff. I met SoS founder Annie Leonard after a talk she gave a few years ago, and couldn’t help but fall all over myself, praising her for the terrific work she’s been doing in sharing ideas along this lines.
Here’s one I love: renting a Christmas tree (see description at left).
Of course, people who own property that would support an additional conifer would be better simply to buy a live tree and retire it immediately, i.e., planting it after Christmas.
From this:
“A flow of pardons for the wealthy and corrupt, yet Brandon Bernard was left to die when his own jurors and prosecutor begged for mercy,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said late Wednesday, referring to the 40-year-old Black man the Trump Justice Department killed earlier this month for a crime he committed at the age of 18. “Our carceral system laid bare for the world to see.” (more…)
Needless to say, most supporters of the president are fans of Melania as well. One of her boosters put this on Facebook, and began his comment, “She fled a communist country, …..”
No, she didn’t “flee” a country, and the country she left (Slovenia) hadn’t been communist for several years before she left it. Outside of that, there are no errors in this boob’s first five words.
If you want to tell me that she’s been treated unfairly by the press, I have no facts to argue otherwise. That said, she’s married to one of the worst people in the history of our civilization, which doesn’t say too much for her character.
This might not be the best day of the year to write a post about an atheist, but there is never a bad time to note what the late Christopher Hitchens thought about people like Donald Trump.
The world isn’t the same place without Hitchens.
No one expected Trump to leave office before pardoning all his allies and mega-donor felons, so what he’s doing right now is anything but a surprise.
Clearly, we need a constitutional amendment to prevent this massive level of corruption from recurring, but what should it state? That pardons must be approved by a majority of members of the Senate? No, that wouldn’t have helped here, since the spineless, chickensh** Republicans would have been scared to death to override the president.
A suggestion: Whenever the president recommends a pardon for someone, it needs to be approved by the majority of the entire electorate in the following general election. How many Americans would vote to confirm the pardon of the fellow, now a free man, who was sentenced to 20 years for orchestrating the largest fraud in human history, bilking $1.3 billion from Medicare? 15? How about the four mass murders who massacred 14 in Iraq, under the aegis of Blackwater, one of whom was doing a life sentence? 11?
Those looking for a wonderful presentation from several top climate scientists will enjoy the video below. There is so much here about ozone depletion, ultra-violet light and the electromagnetic spectrum, water vapor in the stratosphere, changing ocean currents, ice formation, water density, sea-level rise and dozens of other issues that it’s hard to name them all. (more…)
