Mark Twain supposedly said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Those of us old enough and paying enough attention to appreciate the interesting times in which we live have been hearing a lot of...
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Monday December 26, 2016, started out as an ordinary evening...
In his speech last Thursday afternoon commemorating the first anniversary of the attempted coup against our government, President Joe Biden said:
“Rioters rampaging, waving for the first time inside this Capitol, the confederate flag that symbolized the...
It appears wealthy right-wing donors behind the anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-democracy, anti-intellectual, "COVID hoax" wing of the republican party have widened their franchise.
Touting a so-called "freedom convoy," Canadian truck drivers protesting a vaccine mandate have fanned...
“Blood and soil!”
“Jews will not replace us!”
You know where people chanted these slogans, don't you?
Berlin, circa 1938, right?
Technically, yes.
But we don't need to take a trip in the way-back machine to hear this chilling rhetoric....
Based on what we heard on Saturday from Judge Jeanine Pirro and Sebastian Gorka, the official line in Deplorable Land is that the scandal surrounding former White House staff secretary Rob Porter is all the...
This week, a conservative guest on MSNBC's AM Joy had a very tough time spinning out a defense for Donald Trump's record on women's issues after host Joy Reid stumped her with just a straightforward...
On Monday night, we learned beyond any doubt that Sunday's horrific shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas was completely preventable. The gunman, Devin Patrick Kelley, had been court-martialed in 2012 for assaulting his...
Change may be slow at times, but nothing can stop it.
Every year is historic in its own way, but 2020 stands out as one of the most turbulent and interesting in recent times.
One of the...
This year will mark 10 years since I left the chamber of horrors that was my first marriage. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was as beaten down as any woman who has...
Imagine a Democrat suggested shooting unvaccinated people.
Now imagine a republican suggested shooting the vaccinated or anyone advocating vaccinations.
We don't need to imagine, because Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was caught on video last month suggesting...
And Italian media company wanted to see what would happen if they asked a group of young boys to hit a young girl, so they conducted a social experiment to find out. The results were...
There are many positive things Facebook can be used for such as connecting with old friends, joining special interest groups, or starting a business. Many of us have become addicted to checking our feeds multiple...
During election seasons, Anne Arundel County Sheriff Ronald Bateman played off his name's similarity to Batman. He used symbols related to the comic hero who also fought crime with vigor. Unfortunately, over the weekend, Bateman sullied...
If you listen to Christian conservative radio and television long enough, you can take it to the bank that most of what you hear will be tone-deaf and unhinged. But even with those low expectations...
Bill Cosby's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad summer just got worse. Two weeks after the release of a deposition in which he admitted giving prescription Quaaludes to his sexual partners, the latest edition of...
On Sunday morning, just as the morning service at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas was getting underway, a black-clad gunman walked in armed with an AR-15 clone and started shooting. He wound up...
Sarah Teale, a BBC journalist, was recently filming a report on public sexual harassment. Just as Teale was wrapping up her report, she was verbally assaulted with a sexually crude comment by a male stranger.
The...
If anything brightened up the weekend of Donald Trump's inauguration, it was the many images we saw from the Women's March on Washington, as well as sister marches around the world. From the planeloads of nasty...
At first glance, Baylor University did everything right when it emerged that the school had utterly mishandled accusations of sexual assault, particularly by the football team. Following an independent investigation, Baylor demoted--and ultimately pushed out--president...
