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GOP: Conveniently Paranoid

Real Reason to Worry About Russia I am old enough to remember arguing about the U.S.  withdrawal from Vietnam with a 3rd grade friend (Chris) while we did our warm up lap for gym.  We were just kids, parroting what our parents had already told us.  For as long as I remember, it has beenContinue reading “GOP: Conveniently Paranoid”

Suggestion

It feels like we should have a civilian version of this so that mass shooting survivors can be recognized publicly. They are selflessly enduring injuries, trauma, and enormous inconvenience so that we may all purchase assault weapons that absolutely no civilian needs. I really should be straddled on this issue, but I am not.  IContinue reading “Suggestion”

What really needs to be done about the monument to Josef Goebbels, Fox News.

1933:  “The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole of life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic initiative.”  Goebbels’ Wikiquote “Unless you can fake sincerity, you’ll get nowhere in this business.” Roger Stone Quote I am regrettably not an attorney.  But I am curious:  If an entire staffContinue reading “What really needs to be done about the monument to Josef Goebbels, Fox News.”

This is “Normal?” “Decent?” More like “Criminal.”

Providing cover for murdering a U.S. Resident? THAT is Presidential. As a U.S. Ambassador once opined,…” when I see a bird that quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, has feathers and webbed feet and associates with ducks—I’m certainly going to assume that he is a duck.”  Likewise, if the president helps explain away a crime, denies […]

Another case of “Sorry, I guess we were wrong.”

If HIV was put on this earth by God to punish homosexual behavior and/or intravenous drug users, was God also involved in the lab work performed to create Truvada, a drug  that helps prevent HIV? I’m just curious. Also, just out of curiosity, who is the tall blonde in this commercial? The Pill (shameless promotion).