Category Archives: Racism

Why the U.S. is Becoming Unlivable

A) Women’s rights are drying up more quickly than Lake Meade. This process has been catalyzed with Republican support for the kind of misogynistic myths that would warm the heart of Phylis Schlafly. Examples include “women should remain in violent marriages,” and “A rapist should have access to children born from his attack.” Margaret AtwoodContinue reading “Why the U.S. is Becoming Unlivable”

Are We Coming to Our Collective Senses?

What I have always found so frustrating about the rise of Trumpism is not that he was such a revoltingly bigoted and ignorant grifter, but that he had so many mindless followers who were praying for him to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue so that they could ignore it. It appears, mercifully, that the crestContinue reading “Are We Coming to Our Collective Senses?”

Apolitically Speaking: the Concept of a M*A*S*H Reboot

This TV show originally dropped when I was in first grade and it ended when I was a junior in high school. I started watching it regularly when it was in syndication and I watched the 1983 finale, along with enough viewers to make it the most watched scripted television broadcast in history for theContinue reading “Apolitically Speaking: the Concept of a M*A*S*H Reboot”

Me? I live in the United States of Oceania

With a rightist billionaire taking over CNN, and Florida and Texas trying to get rid of investment funds that don’t buy fossil fuel stock (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-25/esg-pros-say-republican-anti-woke-bashing-hurts-regular-savers ), western U.S. states crossing their arms like there is no water crisis, and red-state neighbors thinking they have a right to know why someone visited an abortion-legal state, it’sContinue reading “Me? I live in the United States of Oceania”

3:10 to I am Legend?

Republicans Dust off their most outrageous slur: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/20/republicans-2022-campaigns-00018591 The slur is the acronym “RINO,” or “Republican In Name Only. Frankly, I was expecting the N-Word; or Immigrant;” or the anti-gay “F-Word,” or “Communist,” or practically any hateful word at this point. There is not a caliper accurate enough to measure my indifference to Trump-inspired kvetching.Continue reading “3:10 to I am Legend?”

Self Evidently Speaking….

Two Revelations: A) Putin is an infinitely more dangerous enemy than Osama Bin Laden ever was. Nearly everybody was willing to do pretty much anything to bring the latter to justice, whereas now, one-third of the country is fine siding with someone who is seriously threatening nuclear war…you know, the kind of thing that wouldContinue reading “Self Evidently Speaking….”

Z Povahoyu (Respectfully Speaking)…

The above is written in modern Ukrainian, that is to say, Ukrainian via Google translate. Anyway, I have to admit that I jumped on the anti-Russian bandwagon as soon as I could. But after speaking to a friend the other day I put this quite possibly apocalyptic situation into some kind of perspective. First ofContinue reading “Z Povahoyu (Respectfully Speaking)…”

Life on the Rez — A Cowboys and Indians Movie it Ain’t

     I’m old enough that I remember the anti-pollution ad featuring a native fellow, dressed in traditional garb, paddling through the woods and then coming upon the garbage that signals that white people have been there.  The closing shot shows him staring stoically at the camera with a tear falling from his eye.    As hokeyContinue reading “Life on the Rez — A Cowboys and Indians Movie it Ain’t”

Cops in Schools – A Love Story it Ain’t

 — Mister Thrope I suppose I should contribute to the public opinion on this subject.  From 2007 to 2011, I was an assistant principal in Chicago Public Schools.  During that time, I had the mixed experience of working with several off and sometimes on-duty police officers.  Ergo, I have some real life experience dealing withContinue reading “Cops in Schools – A Love Story it Ain’t”