My mother's family is from the Shenandoah Valley. My grandfather was a Judge and my uncle a prominent attorney. Many live there to this day. I understand they or their ancestors owned slaves in the early years, but others participated in the underground railroad. That was the past. We also have to consider that the … Continue reading On Blackface Politicians
Category: Politics
Of Walls and Love
After having seen the number of replies on a local TV station's Facebook page advocating for the wall, I thought I would bring my point of view to bear on the controversy.Given the amount and polarity of the rhetoric, it's clear that the Reds want a wall. What most have not grasped is that the … Continue reading Of Walls and Love
The Wall
I wrote a letter to the editor of the Seattle Times and it was published on Dec 26, 2018. I have included the original text--their version gets to the meat of the subject, but is somewhat abbreviated. There should be no walls in the wilderness... The poor cannot eat a wall. While bridges fail, forests … Continue reading The Wall
The Republican’s Federalist Agenda
Consider that the Republican agenda from before the Regan years has been to stack the court with arch-conservatives. They realized that even a balanced or right-leaning Supreme Court overturned law after law passed to promote their corporatist, Federalist, misogynist, homophobic, and racist views. Their sponsors, the giant fossil fuel companies, the pharma lobby, the mining … Continue reading The Republican’s Federalist Agenda
On Direction
Since I (really) hate pollsters who call just as I put the first fork of Marilyn's hot dinner in my mouth, I rarely answer, so when I was sent an online poll just recently by one of our Congresswomen, I responded. Many of you know I spent over forty years in information technology handling data, creating … Continue reading On Direction
Sabotage
I'm a fiction writer with a vivid imagination. Last night in a dream, I imagined a time when Russians planted moles, saboteurs, and spies in the highest offices in the country. These villains infiltrated every police department and even the military with men whose sole purpose was to weaken the United States from within. The … Continue reading Sabotage
On Patriotism
A FaceBook friend encouraged me to expand on a quote I made several days ago. Trump does not represent the best of the United States. He personifies the worst of us. He represents the fearful, the White Supremacists, the corrupt, the greedy, the misogynists, the homophobes, the xenophobes and the people who don't care about … Continue reading On Patriotism
The End of Tolerance
I was following a thread on Facebook where people were offended by the word "fuck" on a t-shirt. It basically said, "Fuck Trump and the people who voted for him" and went on to condemn those who still support him, after everything we've seen him do and say. My feeling on the word is that … Continue reading The End of Tolerance
Memorial Day
Several friends tried to remind us that the reason we observe Memorial Day is to honor those who died fighting to uphold the Constitution. We don't "celebrate" their deaths--we mourn them. This is not a "happy" day. It's a somber one. And looking back, tell me how many wars have we fought since 1776 to … Continue reading Memorial Day
The Fallacy of Background Checks
It's happened again and again since I last wrote about gun control--more senseless shootings, murders, suicides, and accidents. And everyone is searching for answers: better doors, fewer doors, arming teachers and projectionists. None of these "solutions" really limit the number of guns flooding into our streets, schools and certainly not into our homes. So many … Continue reading The Fallacy of Background Checks
