America Now, Roman Empire Then

“But I love Bernie! He’s the first politician I’ve ever…” I did not cry, when Bernie endorsed Hillary. I had worked for him, donated mo...

It’s White Privilege to vote for Jill, because you can’t have Bernie. Why? Because, Trump’s win wouldn’t affect you so immediately, as it...

A friend (a fellow Bernier) sent me the link to a short film, as one of the reasons she could never vote for Hillary. Hearing veiled remar...

Yes, Trump said that! I don’t know if it was an ad-lib, or part of his written text, but he said it, and it’s memorialized in the video r...

It’s hard to believe Micah Johnson alone made so much mayhem, and up-ended a growing awareness that black lives haven’t mattered, but tha...

Bernie Sanders has generated a genuine movement, but it may have peaked too late to win the Democratic nomination. So, what are Berniers ...

Letter to Bernie Sanders I have been an enthusiast of yours long before you ventured forth from Vermont into a national campaign. But ...

Ted Cruz, in the last Republican “debate,” explained how he was for “legal status” for illegal immigrants, but not amnesty, not citizensh...

Ted Cruz let slip his plans for illegal immigrants in the 1/28/15 debate:, according to his short amendment (138 words, I think he said) ...

Marx would have said, it’s all determined by economic relations between classes, the wealthy, the middle class and the vast poor, who do a...

Propaganda in the form of a TV series: it really sounds/looks as if it comes from the CIA. Madam Secretary is a made for streaming on Ne...

Perhaps Ted Cruz isn’t really the devil, but that’s what he made me think of when I saw him on the debate last night. What a slimy, evasi...

Are these the times when even the NYT promotes war? Yesterday, 12/7/15, in ‘Obama Says of Terrorist Threat: 'We Will Overcome It,’ th...

We’ve gone through the assault of the zucchinis. We’ve adapted a recipe called disappearing zucchini, in which you grate a large zucchini,...

I long ago stopped following planting “directions, and started planting the way I thought it would work. For example, seed packets advise...