rope a dope
Along with the rest of the world, I’ve been thinking about the upcoming American presidential election. As I listened to a truly discouraging radio report about Trump’s billion dollar campaign and his...
View ArticleMake America Cheat Again
So today the President pardoned ex- San Francisco 49’ers owner Edward Bartolo. It seems Bartolo got caught giving Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards a $400,000 bribe for a riverboat gambling license...
View ArticleCloneservatives
When we moved back to my home town in 2003, I knew we would be in the political minority. I grew up in central Pennsylvania surrounded by farmers and Plain folk, country club Republicans, fiscal and...
View Article(On a gravestone somewhere in the Swamp...)
HERE LIES RUSH LIMBO —“How low will you go?”
View ArticleModern American Politics -- a haiku
On a fast two-lane,Most of us hug the white line.Dicks claim the yellow.
View ArticleOutta left field
So, I’m an acupuncturist, and my patients frequently reveal all sorts of things about themselves to me as I examine them through the lens of classical Chinese medical theory. For the first time...
View ArticleDear Democrats:
Dear Democrats:We dodged an atomic bomb aimed at our democracy in the recently concluded midterms. I was told I was being melodramatic when I started predicting that America would become the next great...
View ArticleA Brief History of Humanity
Some millennia ago, some ape-like creature looked in a still pool of water, saw its reflection and thought, “Wait a minute – that’s me!” It showed other ape-like creatures this trick, and soon there...
View ArticleA modest proposal regarding reparations
Pretty simple, really… it is plain that the economic, cultural and human harm done to African Americans by four centuries of enslavement has not been addressed, and must be addressed before we can “get...
View ArticleThe Most Terrifying Headline of 2023
“A boy saw 17 doctors over 3 years for chronic pain. ChatGPT found the diagnosis,” says the Today show.On one hand, one could blame the modern practice of allopathic medicine, in which physicians have...
View Article"You'll be whining so much you'll get tired of whining"
(I just submitted this letter to the editor of my local, central PA newspaper in response to one prominent local Republican complaining about a rude bumper sticker and another (long-time Republican...
View ArticleKidsicles! Yum!
The rapturous religious morons on the Alabama Supreme Court have outdone themselves in 21st century sophistry with their recent ruling declaring frozen embryos to be children. Forget about the...
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