There appears to be so much nonsense in today’s political strategies here in the U.S. Obviously the far-right wing is getting great mileage out of ridiculing the idea of “wokeness,” a word that hateful and ignorant people use to discredit …
Republicans Are Bullying Mickey Mouse, But Does That Seem Like a Good Idea? Read More »
Was Russia’s support of Donald Trump and its intervention in our 2016 elections an act of deliberate sabotage? There is no direct proof–at least none that has been made public, yet it’s hard for the mind not to connect the …
It’s easy to hate the values of the present-day Republican party. Today’s Democratic party, though its morals are higher, is also hard to admire, if only for its amazing ineptitude at political messaging. Review the list of what Democrats have …
Democrats Can’t Message Themselves Out of a Paper Bag Read More »
They’re underpaid. Their efforts to discipline unruly students is thwarted at every turn. They bring in their own supplies, and spend countless unpaid hours on lesson planning. It may have appeared that our society had done everything conceivable to remove …
Aren’t the Lives of Teachers Already Tough Enough? Read More »
This reverence for semi-automatic machine guns is most certainly among America’s current cultural phenomena that mystifies Europe (and the rest of the world), but it’s hardly the only one.
Like most people in their twenties, my kids occasionally use vulgar language. A couple of points: They do it sparingly, They don’t do it in front of inappropriate company, and They didn’t learn it from me when they were in …
The meme here suggests something that is very hard to deny about American politics: Republican congresspeople are begging for support from the only person in American history since Benedict Arnold who tried to overthrow the nation. It’s hard to imagine …
I wish I could say that this quote here from Pat Robertson was simply manufactured for its shock value. It wasn’t; it came from a letter he sent to his fan base as a fundraiser. The televangelist par excellence stepped …
When we see memes like this, unless we know the people who created them, we never really know what they mean. If this was posted by a progressive, it would suggest that Trump supporters will one day come to realize …
Progressives in the United States, in general, wish they could fashion their country after Northern Europe. Scandinavians pay slightly higher taxes, but they have governments that work for all the people, not just the rich. A good example of the …
