States are banning books to appease the complaints of sad, narrow-minded and perverted bigots. The perverted bigots are losing their sad and narrow little minds because they are losing the future and they know it. …

Washington Post, May 9, 2023: ‘The Allen Fairview Chamber of Commerce in Texas [where a gunman killed eight people, including three children, at a shopping mall less than 24 hours earlier] published a Facebook post Sunday welcoming Pulling Triggers and Pulling Corks — a business that hosts events for people…

Among the various civic issues of our times, We the People are dealing with typically awful reporting on the whole Republican House majority’s debt ceiling drama. Like this ridiculously desperate “both-sides” headline from Scripps, screaming “Lawmakers on Capitol Hill continue blame game as debt ceiling looms.” Because god forbid that…

I ran out of patience a long time ago with a bruised and battered News business trying desperately to cover American politics as if it were an honest game between two perspectives about public policy priorities, on face value and in all good faith. No, our national struggle has long…

Among the four teams of Chicago’s Windy City Rollers, the Fury has held the WFTDA affiliate league’s home season trophy since 2020. The WCR home season trophy is named for Ivy King, a star who wore the number 1 in what was the first Transcontinental Roller Derby event at the…

“Woke!,” “wokeness!,” “wokeism!,” cry Putin’s little American fascists…. This is all we need to know about how Republicans will try to get us to vote for them. The GQP has nothing to offer but fear itself. Which does not mean, however, that their policy priorities, such as they are, aren’t…

The right-wing Newsmax cable channel and its fans are currently engaged in a fight against DirecTV’s decision to discontinue the underperforming channel in its lineup. Right-wing conservatives love their splashy performances of anger and resentment over what they typically call “special rights” for minorities, queers and liberals. The carrier had…

In America today, We the People live in a time and place where states rule that children may carry firearms unsupervised out in public and may not read books in public schools or libraries that deal with race and gender issues. The conservatives that are mostly responsible for these warped…

The Jewish morning service in some synagogues includes a meditative blessing that “expresses wonder at the simple but necessary functioning of the human body,” wrote Arthur Green in a commentary for the Reconstructionist Sabbath holiday prayer book. “We do not need to stand before any greater wonder of nature than…