POST 1221 Reporting From War-Torn Chicago . . . . Adapted from Edward R. Murrow’s March 9, 1941 broadcast from London. This is Chicago. Soon it will be winter in America. Already the flowers in the parks are browning and wilting as though there will be no renewal next year. There’s good fighting and invading… [read more]
First They Came
POST 1220 No One Left To Speak From friend Jay Becker of Refuse Fascism: [Over] just a few days, here in Chicago, masked, heavily armed federal agents: . – fired toxic pepper balls and tear gas at [non-violent] protesters in Broadview; – shot a woman in Brighton Park; – carried out a military style assault… [read more]
Don Quixote and You
POST 1219 What Motivates Likely you’ve heard about the government funding war now being waged between the “just-found-our-cojones” Democrats and the “we don’t give a crap about the people” Republicans. Maybe you’re wondering what kinds of things are about to happen, like Trump saying he’ll fire another 100,000 federal employees, which means he’ll likely do… [read more]
Civilian Leadership of Our Military
POST 1218 Yesterday we were given the full screen picture of our newly renamed War Department. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, set the stage with absolutist war drum pounding and attacks on everything not MAGA. Fie on DEI and Woke! They are the core of our problems, he’ll have us know.That plus facial hair, overweight… [read more]
The Real Charlie Kirk
POST 1217 It is one of our more peculiar behaviors in America. I don’t know if it’s common in other cultures, but it is pervasive here. When someone dies we only speak of that person in complimentary ways. We never mention the meanness, the cruelty, the bad things done by the departed. I suppose the… [read more]
Making a Difference
POST 1216 What If You Could? Many people have doubts. “I’m just one tiny voice.” “I don’t have any special skills or power.” “This is too big for me.” “I don’t even know what to do.” “I hate what’s happening to our country, but I’m no billionaire.” “What good would it do?” My friend MG… [read more]
Realities
POST 1215 Some Things Just Have To Lede Tomorrow at 1:19PM the reliable, count-on-it solar system will deliver this year’s autumnal equinox even for the flat earthers. It will be the very moment when the forces of summer and the forces of winter will hold hands, balance on tip-toe and suspend for just a moment… [read more]
A Message For Our Time
POST 1214 Where We Left Off On Sunday From John Pavlovitz’s September 12 post, The Shameful Christian Idolatry and Fraudulent Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk: “Kirk has left a hateful, dehumanizing legacy of words that Conservative Christians are either choosing to ignore in their zeal to canonize him, or they simply share his racist, phobic, misogynist,… [read more]
Who and What We Are
POST 1213 With Sad and Angry Regret, John Lewis Nope, we’re not better than this. There have been assassinations here since before we were a country. Multiple presidents have been shot. Sandy Hook happened and we were all so sad, but we continued killing one another as though those little kids were still alive and… [read more]
People Are Saying . . .
POST 1212 The Trumpstein Slimepocolypse To be clear, people like Jeffrey Epstein’s “clients” are commonly referred to on the street by “working girls” and by pimps as “johns” or “tricks.” And in this case we’re talking about people who assaulted, ravaged and raped underage girls as young as 13 – middle schoolers – That’s what… [read more]
