Category Archives: Politics—U. S.

Yikes! The Next President could be A Gitmo Torture-Meister & Human Rights Shredder

[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 →

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Cartoons for an “Unfunny” Time

It doesn’t seem there’s any way around it: so far, 2023 is a Big Bust as far as editorial cartoons go. We now have proof of that, at least in the form that counts for the educated classes, a statement by an elite college professor,

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An Ode to Jimmy

  I didn’t vote for Jimmy Carter in 1976. In fact, I didn’t vote at all that year. I’m not proud of that, but there it is. It happened mostly because I was away from home on election day, and because I wasn’t scared. That autumn I was trying to write a novel about Quakers … Continue reading An Ode to Jimmy →

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