4/3: The fact that Americans elected Trump exposes America’s basic tenets. — that of confrontation., fear, ignorance. Read William Lederer’s 1961 book, A Nation if Sheep.
April 2025 Blog
March 2025 Blog
3/30: America’s Free Press was never free.
There was always a price to pay. The coins of the realm was a commitment to honesty and integrity. Of course there were always freeloaders but now those coins have been banished by threat and fear. And it appears that the old coins are being thrown into the Potomac River.
February 2025 Blog
/26: While Amazon has finally acquired the James Bond franchise,
it’s chairman, Jeff Bezos, seems to be bending to a nemesis more sinister, mean, cruel and more bent on destroying the world than any of Bond’s worst adversaries. You can see this happening in real time as Bezos continues to turn The Washington Post into a meaningless rag. And Trump, the real life incarnation of Blofeld, is just getting started! — Hey Double O Seven and M,, where are you when we need you?
January 2025 Blog
1/29: — Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the appropriations committee, called the White House’s decision to rescind the order “an important victory for the American people,” commending those who spoke out against the original order for putting pressure on the White House. She accused the Trump administration of sowing chaos through “a combination of sheer incompetence, cruel intentions and a willful disregard of the law.”
The turkey run – Illustration by David Crellen
11/11: VETERANS DAY
October 2024
September Harvest – Illustration by David Crellen
Liz Cheney To The Rescue
That means to think of how well the year has gone for you. Don't think of any of the bad things. That'll ruin the magic of the season and take all the bubbles out of your New Years Eve champagne.
At least for me it aptly begins as DIA DE LOS MUERTOS (Day of The Dead) – my birthdayMom, did you think I was a wrench in the works?
October should be a calming month. The leaves are falling. The fall colors are showing. The fall transition weather should be gentler. We, in the northern hemisphere temperate zone will be bundling up.
Will Tweet posts now be called eXcretes? So guess what the act of “tweeting” must now be called? And, on this same theme, I can imagine a collection of posts being called “a pile of …” What’s this world coming to?
It seems like the 1863-1865 era when many white Americans refused to accept the emancipation of black Americans. Today, a particular sector of society refuses to get not only the emancipation of all our rights to freedom of thought and deed but wants to eliminate the true knowledge of our history.
