We observed a new Hebrew calendar year, Rosh Hashanah, in this last Gregorian week of September 2022, hoping to be inscribed and sealed in the Book of Life for 5783. While I am only about half an hour into the first episode of the Ken Burns PBS documentary The US…

It’s always a good time to get turned on to new music and the artists making it. But the weirdo terrestrial and extraterrestrial radio stations I tend to tune into to find it have been surprising me lately by playing stuff I already knew. …

It all came down to Hillary Clinton and her emails. He led huge crowds chanting “Lock her up!” So, Trump knew exactly what he was doing when he stole those boxes filled with classified documents from our National Archives and took them back home with him to Florida. As president…

Our civic leaders at every level of government are bound by oath or affirmation to support our Constitution. Further, “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” These are the basic principles of good citizenship in these United…

With a vanishing American cultural mainstream, Republicans have been creating their own alternative reality with alot of help from decades of an expanding and exclusive right-wing conservative media universe. But Joe Biden really lit up the GQP fascist death cult, and much of what is left of our corporate News…

Death to Cartoonland! Now, how do we kill it? Between deepfakes and willful ignorance, it won’t be very long until we will no longer be able to distinguish genuine electronic news gathering images from propaganda. We already live in an infantilized culture, constantly feeding us cheap tripe to consume at…

Recent rulings rolling back established civil rights, like abortion, have been described by some legal experts as a “tragedy” for this current Supreme Court. “That’s the tragedy — one of the tragedies — of this opinion today is that it destabilizes the Court,” said MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance. “Will…

I used to hear it more than I do now. “Judaism is a religion of law; Christianity is a religion of love.” After all, they have Santa Claus. Who doesn’t love Santa Claus? Especially now that Trump made it politically correct to say “Merry Christmas” again. But seriously, in the…

“If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion,” proclaimed General Mike Flynn to the sanctuary of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, packed with QAnon devotees, Infowarriors, white supremacists, Christian nationalists, the economically anxious, and assorted other superpatriotic conservatives…