The committee sets the scene for an insidious true story of how one man, unable to face the truth of losing an election, sets about attempting to overturn an election and undermine the democracy of an entire nation. Sounding a bit like a movie promo of some sort? Maybe a prime-time political drama series? Well, it’s not. It’s real. It happened. It’s still happening. And it will continue to pose a...
The Foundation of Freedom
is choice. Plain and simple. When a faction of any populace aims to deny, remove, or otherwise block the ability to choose from any other faction of a populace, it is inherently and unquestionably working to deny freedom and promote oppression. I don’t know how to break it down any simpler. I’m not just talking about abortion rights, though that is often the topic that comes to mind...
Stand Up. Show Up. Speak Up.
RISE UP. Look at the world around you from the lens of another. Look at it from beyond the confines of your immediate circle. Look past the pressures of your own immediate needs. Do so without judgment or bias. Look with fresh eyes, an open mind, and an open heart. See the turmoil. See the injustice. See the hatred. See the fear. Push hard against the tough skin of that seemingly impenetrable...
Worrying about in-person classes this school year?
There may be other options. This year has been a train wreck. Many of our kids lost weeks and months of schooling. Now the new school year is upon us and there is this insane push to resume in-person classes and student busing at a time when COVID-19 cases are continuing to rise. If your school district is planning to resume in-person classes and you’re nervous or torn about it, you should...
Dude, Where’s My President?
OK, I’ll just be Biden my time. It’s so crazy my mind keeps trying to explain it away as some sort of alternate reality dimension but, alas, this is life in America today. And let’s be real, during the run to the 2016 election, this is exactly the sort of insanity we predicted would happen and why we worked so hard trying to keep Humpty Trumpty out of that big white house in DC. If only...
Enough of this shitshow, can we please get an adult back in the White House?
I’m tired. I’m betting you’re tired too. It’s been 84 days since Gov. Tom Wolf (Pennsylvania) ordered all schools to close and shortly thereafter all non-life sustaining business statewide to shutter. I wasn’t mad about it. I was glad to do my part to help flatten the curve. And of course, I didn’t want to risk getting sick either. Every person in my household...
On this Independence Day, it’s important to think about what and why we’re celebrating.
July 4, 1776 – the day that the Continental Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence. On this day 243 years ago, the United States of America was “born.” And oh, has she suffered growing pains throughout all those years, but none as potentially damaging to the roots and spirit of its very foundation as we are now seeing unfold before our very eyes. Our...
Time Warp
What the hell is going on in this country? Alabama governor signs strictest U.S. abortion ban into law: “Alabama’s governor signed a bill on Wednesday to ban nearly all abortions in the state, even in cases of rape and incest, in the latest challenge by conservatives to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision establishing a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy.” Missouri follows...
Independence Day in the USA 2018
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of...