They Also Spawned a Movement for a Law-and-Order Theocracy — My parents from Kansas, both professed Christians and occasional churchgoers, paid for two abortions of my older brother’s then-girlfriend. At the time my dad was a Republican voter as well dean of Marshall University’s journalism college in West Virginia in the late 1970s. As the Republican Party continued to grow…

Remarkably Old White Women Did Stagecraft, Right-Wingers Remade the Courts — Toward the end of each June when the nation’s anti-democratic, nine-justice U.S. Supreme Court drops a slew of its opinions every “progressive” org and their money-slurping consultants will skim the opinions grab a few quotes and then send out emails, tweets, Facebook posts, TikTok twists, urging folks to give them…

Three Years of Covid19, and the U.S. Fumbled, Failed, and Learned Nothing — Let’s talk about the U.S.’s obsession with long covid. What does the “superpower” populace’s acceptance perhaps love of covid19 mean? A desire for normalcy is a part of it many would suspect, but it must be the lurking American Dream thing. …

Friday Enlightenments and Pleasures — Quick Reads: “Biden Hikes Medicare Prices and Funnels Profits to Private Insures,” is outlandish, cruel, and wrong, but the reality is Joe Biden has long been a lawmaker owned by the private health insurance industry via The Lever: From the piece: Last week, the Biden administration quietly reaffirmed its decision…

House Members Overpromised in Blatant Effort to Help Midterm Messaging — The city of stagecraft underwhelms often, and its symbolism is tiring, the U.S. populace might grumble a bit, but it is too pummeled by do-nothing lawmakers who remain drunk on the field. A big part of the problem is Washington, D.C. where nothing much ever changes. It is a city…

20th Century U.S.A. Could Have Done Without the Law-and-Order Liberal — Throughout his long political career Joseph Robinette Biden has proven an opportunist at advancing a career to serve ruthless capitalism and its outcomes that haunt the hobbled U.S. to this day. Joe Biden is not the 21st Century’s answer to a nation in calamity, he was never the right “guy”…

Friday Enlightenments and Pleasures — Quick Reads: “Top Gun: Maverick,” is outlandish military requirement via The Lever: This piece from The Lever, “Inside The Military-Entertainment Complex,” is wild fun, unless you love big weapons and bloody wars. In fairness the piece isn’t exactly a “quick read,” but it’s the only read suggested this Friday. It…

Dull White Rappers Cashing In, While LGBTQueerness is Demonized — Post Malone, a darling of Rolling Stone magazine and dullard late night talk show hosts, is painfully mediocre. Because he has a decent voice and is a wizard at ripping off popular radio hits, he was able to launch his entertainment career as a rapper, before shifting to a more…

‘Defund the Police,’ Didn’t Help, But White U.S.A Loves Cops and Safe Shopping Spots — Police reform in the U.S. is hampered because of outlandish, racist white fear that is never-ending. This noxious nonstop fear and hatred of Black people will always demand police departments, lots of prisons, to keep streets safe for white people to shop. In a recent PBS “cops on trial” thing…