above the law

It’s very interesting and quite significant that Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigned so quickly when his role in protecting billionaire Jeffrey Epstein from Federal prosecution a decade ago recently came to light. Normally these guys will fight tooth and nail and deny, deny, deny until the very end. In the past, president* Trump’s strategy would […]

what dictatorship looks like

What is happening today in America is exactly what happened in Germany in the 1930s. No one had the guts or the wherewithal to stand up to the Nazis back then, and the rest is history. President* tRump’s ‘celebration of America’ this past 4th of July weekend pretty much sealed the deal. I couldn’t stand […]

good riddance!

Goodbye, Sarah “Huckleberry-Hound” Sanders, we hardly knew ye. Thank god. Last week, Sarah Sanders announced she was stepping down as “president” tRump’s spokesdemon. She was an inveterate liar, only worse. She was an Uber-Christian, evangelical liar. Gosh, there must be what, like hundreds of passages about lying in the Buybull. I assume she should know […]

USA: THE WORST OF EVERYTHING!

The main reason so many EU countries have strong economies and a better quality of life than the USA is due to the compatibility between labor unions and corporate management. In America we have an adversarial relationship between the corporate State and blue collar workers – and what’s left of the unions. CEOs can make […]

Coachella 2019

Coachella 2019 looks pretty crappy to me. Okay, I’m an old fogey, but I scanned through the line-up and all of the online pics from weekend one and there was only one picture of a musician actually playing an instrument. Do any pop acts actually play instruments anymore? And what’s with the K-Pop shit? So […]

Evangelicals

Evangelicals love tRump because they think he’ll usher in the Apocalypse. That’s why they’re so willing to overlook his habitually immoral and sinful behavior and the fact that he’s obviously just paying lip service to Christianity – or Judaism, for that matter. The anti-LGBT and anti-women stuff is just icing on the cake; and tRump […]

brave new Zealand

Following the mass shootings at two Christchurch mosques that killed 50 people, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that all military-style semi-automatic weapons, assault rifles and high-capacity magazines will now be banned in that country. “On 15 March our history changed forever. Now our laws will too,” Ardern said at a press conference in […]

Some thoughts upon my return from London

I was not disappointed. As dysfunctional as the UK’s government is, it is clear that they at least pretend to care about their citizens and their democracy and their culture…unlike the USA, which is openly contemptuous of its own people. London is the center of a truly multi-cultural society, encompassing hundreds of cultures and value […]

Vinyl memories

Although it’s virtually a relic of the past, I have always considered the album – or LP, for “long-player” – as they used to be called – as a collection of songs with an overarching theme and a certain stylistic unity. In the case of an artist with a long recording career like Bob Dylan, […]