[NOTE: For those, like this blogger, who is taking a spring break from indictment chatter until indictments really happen (if they do), this passage from a talk given in 1998 by the late Friend Bill Kreidler, is meant to help us cope with our withdrawal symptoms via distraction.] Bill Kreidler: It was about eight years … Continue reading A Gay Quaker’s Unexpected Encounter With A Catholic Mystic Saint
Monday March 27, 2023 I just turned off my favorite, most-respected news network, because it was all about what-would-it-be-like-to-indict 45, again, and I couldn’t stand anymore of this filler crap. When (if??) 45 actually, really, truly, authentically, genuinely, no fooling, no-sh*t, IRFL gets indicted, friends, I will be ALL EARS! But until then, find SOMETHING … Continue reading Fed Up.
[NOTE: John McWhorter is an often provocative columnist for the New York Times. He’s a frequent dissenter from the evolving “woke-DEI consensus,” but also an advocate for his version of Black advancement (e.g., pressing for teaching reading to all students via Phonics, a crusade I completely agree with), and has called for ending the … Continue reading 1966-Explaining The Year of “Black Power”
[NOTE: Nick Kristof was one of the New York Times’s most intrepid foreign correspondents, reporting from one far distant, demanding locale after another for 37 years, as often writing from obscure, out-of-the-spotlight places as from front-page hotspots. He was also notoriously upbeat and public-spirited, always digging for signs of hope and even tiny green shoots of … Continue reading Nicholas Kristof: how a “Barefoot College” is Empowering Some of the Least Powerful in India
[NOTES: I protested Gitmo and the U. S. torture program for years during the Iraqi-stan wars. There were a number of names from that horrible and still unaddressed period: Rumsfeld, Cheney (Dick, tho Liz agrees) W and more. Now there’s another one: a newbie Navy lawyer, aggressive, all-in, ambitious. Also unknown. But not unknown anymore: … Continue reading Yikes! The Next President could be A Gitmo Torture-Meister & Human Rights Shredder