Scum

“Scum.” That’s what Trump called President Biden in his "Happy Memorial Day to all" message, “Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Hopefully, the United States Supreme Court ... will save us from the decisions of the monsters who want our country to go to hell,” he wrote. “Again, happy Memorial Day,” Trump concluded. "Scum," "trying to destroy," warped radical left minds," he…

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The Snow and Being Snowed

“In this refulgent summer, it has been a luxury to draw the breath of life.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his classic “Divinity School Address.” The luxury to draw the breath of life is owned by bums as much as by billionaires.  Which gets the most from their breathing?  How much do you get from yours?  Forget the angst for a minute.  Forget Trump’s assault on “We, the People” and on our clunky but partly functional constitution.  Forget his attacks on journalists, jurists, and judges.  Forget…

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Chainsaw Massacre

Would a brain surgeon wield a chainsaw? Trump's Musk would. Who gave Musk the chainsaw? Javier Milei, new president of Argentina. He's the hairy-headed one behind Elon Musk. He's the one, since seizing power in Argentina, who has already doubled their extreme poverty. He is also rewriting his nation's history. So is Trump doing that here, calling it "RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY." No DEI empathy in our history. It's been incised. No inclusive empathy in our diverse past, nor to departments who…

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Words and The Word

“I know words,” claimed Donald Trump.  “I have the best words.” Does he?  His words aren’t fair or intelligent, but they are effective.  He does “The Weave,” mixing exaggerated boasts and insults into a random collage of repeated words.  “His speeches are pitched as if to nine-year-olds at a fourth-grade level,” wrote the UK's Guardian.   “You come away from a Trump speech with a feeling, not an argument." “I love the poorly educated,” he shrewdly boasted.  His lies can work better than truths.  “A lie…

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A List of Trump’s Thoughts

on Twitter 2015-2021, regarding four topics: The Impeachment Inquiry, New York Times, The Mainstream Media, Hillary Clinton, Up to When he was Barred from Twitter As Reported in the New York Times (Placed here to alert citizens of Trump's nuanced thinking) _____________________________________________________ Impeachment Inquiry “hoax,”  “THE BIGGEST OF ALL POLITICAL SCANDALS (IN HISTORY)!!!”  “A three year HOAX,”  “A failed COUP!”  “the biggest political crime and scandal in American history,”  “Scam,”  “phony Witch Hunt,”  “Scam,”  “Impeachment Scam,”  “Impeachment Hoax,”  “Impeachment Hoax,”  “Ukraine Scam, Impeachment Hoax”,”  “Impeachment…

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Bad for Us

Ironically, perhaps even suicidally, we've elected the party whose assumption is that "government is bad for us." And now it is. They are that cynical slogan. It'll be hard to extricate ourselves from this disaster. That's why I flew the flag upside down, symbolizing my country in distress. It's my patriotic gesture, flown despite the ire it might rouse. In the history of our society and government, in relations with worldwide friends, in the inevitable havoc of our precious and inescapable environment - our current…

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Our Family Home

These old photos of our family home and me arrived from my sister, setting off a chain of ruminations and reactions on New Year's Eve, a few hours shy of 2025. Here I am on my first day of kindergarten. I vaguely remember the house on Stoepel Street in Detroit. Dad kept making the gate latch more elaborate to keep me in the yard. Mom worried when I got out, but Dad was proud I had figured out how to open it. I've been figuring…

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Missing the Point

The only ones not shocked and worried at Trump's reelection should be. A vile, lying con man has retaken the presidency, despite who he blatantly is. Those who are full of glee now will soon regret their historic blunder. Americans have been duped by a party whose philosophy is that 'government is bad for us,' which they're already enacting. It'll get worse. I'm sour and chagrinned. Just when the world should be uniting to cooperatively meet and master this long-term, self-induced climate chaos, this ecosystem…

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Living Past the Lies

Anxious about the election? Tired of being lied to? Concerned that our two-hundred-year-old democratic republics could abruptly end, delivered over to petty but fanatical moralists and the amoral rich? Hitler lost the battle, but are his types resurging to win the war? I'm anxious but hopeful. I'm worn out by life, my career, and trying to be a decent citizen. I will end this essay with hope, but I must first admit the danger. You'll note my leftist slant for much of this. But read…

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Quotes and Jokes

"I'm tired of egotists. They're more interested in themselves than in me." (My favorite joke lately.) I've been keeping a file of quotes and jokes for years. Here it is for your viewing pleasure. (My apologies to readers because all the formatting to attribute authors switched from the right edge of the page to the left. Usually, the author's name follows the quote. Darn Blue Host's skimpy tools! Also discovered, two versions of my autobiography, one completed in 2012, found under Home/About the Founder, and…

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