NOTE: Today’s post is the 599th since I started this project in October, 2015. I have spent much too much time thinking about the focus or subject of #600. I want it to be memorable, if not monumental. Maybe an update on past topics. Or a mea culpa reminding readers “FWIW” was occasionally zero, considering … Read more
Let’s be clear. You’re witnessing a homicidal president conveying, purposefully, a homicidal assembly to help him get reelected as President of the United States instead of protecting the health and welfare of the United States including supporters whose lives he’s willing to sacrifice. ~Carl Bernstein/CNN/September 14, 2020 Bernstein’s comment was in reference to the revelation … Read more
People always ask me about Roswell and the aliens and UFOs, and it turns out the stuff going on that’s top secret isn’t nearly as exciting as you expect. ~President Barack Obama/November 17, 2015 Every president since Harry Truman has been asked about Roswell and the Nevada Air Force testing facility commonly known as … Read more
Sometimes I find choosing the appropriate metaphor for what is happening in the United State a challenge. Today is NOT one of the occasions. Why? Because two events in the past 48 hours–Hurricane Laura and violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin following the shooting of Jacob Blake–share a common teaching moment. Both remind us any attempt … Read more
During night two of the Republican National Convention (RNC), one mission of Donald Trump’s campaign was to close the “empathy gap” between the incumbent and Joe Biden. To make their point, the program included two sitting members of Congress who shared stories how Trump reached out to them in times of sorrow or need. … Read more