JORDAN PETERSON THROWN OFF TWITTER FOR ANTI-TRANS HATE RANT

Say what you want about the crackpot Canadian psychologist and philosopher-king to the West’s homophobes, white and Christian nationalists, science deniers, and just plain kooks, but he’s a survivor. He’s come back to haunt us after battles with addiction, depression, police investigations, allegations of hate mongering and absolute rejection by the world’s genuine philosophers and […]

EVEN TRUMP DOESN’T DESERVE THE DEATH PENALTY-LOCKING HIM UP FOREVER IS JUSTICE

Click here to read about former CIA Director Michael Hayden’s suggestion that Trump face the death penalty.  I must disagree; I’ve been opposed to capital punishment my entire life, and tempting as it may be, am not inclined to carve out an exception for Donald Trump. We’ll have to settle for life imprisonment with, most […]

TRUMP’S BEING TREATED LIKE ANY CRIMINAL SUSPECT, AS IT SHOULD BE

 The Yahoo News article accessible below is but one of many reports on the faux outrage Republican leaders are expressing over a lawful and proper criminal investigation of the leader of their cult. Aren’t these the same useless clowns who pledge to put Dr. Fauci in jail for doing his job, and who screamed “Lock her […]

LIZ CHENEY, PROFILE IN COURAGE AND INDEPENDENCE DAY HERO

This is what I call a Profile in Courage. A rock-ribbed Republican conservative explains to her constituents what the Constitution really means and vows to always put the Constitution and the country above her party. Any Republican fool can get up in front of a bunch of Trump cultists and repeat the Big Lie, as […]

REPUBLICAN LEADERS NEED TO STOP THE REPLACEMENT THEORY LIE

If there’s anyone who still doesn’t know what it is, “The Great Replacement Theory” is the current iteration of long-standing antisemitic right wing conspiracy lie. Replacement Theory advocates claim that a diabolical group is secretly working to sneak in non-white immigrants to displace white people and take over America. That group, of course, is the […]

ONLY TRAITOROUS AMERICANS SUPPORT PUTIN’S INVASION

Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine Flag of independent Ukraine I can understand Americans don’t want war with Russia and they don’t want American troops in combat. I certainly feel that way, and there are other paths open to combat Putin. But what I cannot understand are those Americans who cheer on Putin and think we should […]

THOUGHTS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF KRISTALNACHT

    Photo by Stephen Shaiken Today is the 83d anniversary of the horrors of Kristalnacht, when the racist Nazi leader of Germany and his party incited violence and murder against those they considered disloyal and “the other.” The Nazis of course denied responsibility, claiming it was a spontaneous outburst by decent German citizens enraged that […]

MY VACCINATION DAY

 REPORT FROM THE VACCINATION TRAIL I am one of the luckiest people in Hillsborough County, FL. I am one of the 10,500 Hillsborough residents inoculated with the Pfizer vaccine. On January 4, 1500 vaccines were made available to people over sixty five; the website crashed in thirty seconds, and no one answered the phones; no one has […]