Do we need a tragic narrative to rouse us from our own stupors of pursued self-satisfaction? How about a story of self-indulged actions that lead to widespread tragedy and death? Perhaps the self-absorbed celebration of Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr. and Angela Renee Jimenez, the couple who set off a…
Charles Dickens also lived in an era when elite forces ruled, for us the corporate elite. Upheaval in France had brought excesses on both sides. First “Let them eat cake” is a familiar sentiment of the exploitive rich in late 1700 France, a quote usually attributed to an arrogant…
America’s history of defending democratic principles leaves a lot to be desired. Actions of presidents in the past bordered on questionable, many times marked by expedience and partisanship. Deadly actions were often taken with little transparency and no real urgency. A grossly unpopular war was authorized by the Congress’s…
While a rising rival, China, assembles a space station, deploys a rover after an impressive landing on Mars, elbows back 5G efforts by pampered, burgeoning, monopolistic, gorge-crazy US communications companies, builds colossal domestic infrastructure projects, launches Asian and African economic efforts affecting three-quarters of known energy reserves, introduces a…
According to a CBS 60-Minutes report on 5/16/2021, the U.S. Senate’s intelligence committee has ordered the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense to deliver a report on decades of mysterious Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings by next month. There has often been a Looney-Tunes flavor to…
Maureen Dowd, having none of Liz Cheney being the pure-hearted defender of democracy, ended her NYT oped of 5/9/2021, regarding the Cheneys, “Trump built a movement based on lies. The Cheneys showed him how it’s done.” As we know, Liz Cheney is one of only a few Republicans to…
You probably have already made your decision and I fervently hope that it is to continue Donald Trump’s ban from Facebook. I realize that Mr. Zuckerberg has dropped the hot potato in your laps. I’m sure you realize that Donald Trump used the social media forum to incite a…
Since 1916 we – American taxpayers -- have given $470 billion to “Big Oil” for the oil depletion allowance which, in effect, has paid oil companies more than the capital cost of the asset, in this case, oil. The oil depletion allowance in American tax law is an allowance…
Required to realistically Renew Democracy in the USA with Republican-controlled states trying to disenfranchise non-white voters: A. For the People Act, HR1 2021 1. Uniform Voting Rights for all states – Republican or Democratically Controlled. a) Automatic voter registration. b) Election day a federal holiday. c) Voting rights for felons…
The yellow rose of Texas has been frozen stiff, And the noble residents desperately need a lift. Four million lack power with the ERCOT grid, Ninety percent of Texas under its pesky lid. Wind power’s to blame, the untruly right does claim, While rabid markets & deregulation’s a…