Author Archives: jharrin4

So, hear yee, fallow Americans (ya know, those who didn’t bother to vote on November 8, 2016, for their own, or close/extended family members, or the country as a whole) are you guilt-tripping yet? And to those of you who … Continue reading →

According to Sierra magazine: In early December, the sea-ice cover at the North and South Poles is smaller than recent averages by an area the size of India. Thousands of snow geese die after landing in the toxic waters of … Continue reading →

Let it be known, one and all, that today March 9, 2017 is the day that the Alternative Facts Administration, led by a pathological liar with orange hair and one red hot Twitter account,  has finally advanced a hard, stone-cold, irrefutable, … Continue reading →

111 days ago a bomb was put in place, timed to detonate 72 days later. Many, many days of hand wringing and desperate hope followed that somehow, someway, this potentially massively destructive device could be defused, rendered impotent. The bomb was a known threat, … Continue reading →

The Democratic Party. a.k.a. the dupes; the corroborators; the corrupted colluders; the enablers; the accommodators and for damn sure the spineless patsies trying to pass themselves off as the party of the people. Am I being hyperbolic here? If anything, … Continue reading →

Jess Sessions, whose back-story includes the now excoriating letter written about his racist actions as an Alabama official in the 80s, by Coretta Scott King, with Senator Liz Warren being told to shut up by the vile, venal lizard face Mitch McConnell, the … Continue reading →

President Small Hands/Big Mouth has nominated Neil Gorsuch to replace Antonin Scalia, the semi-recently deceased SCOTUS ultra-conservative. Gorsuch is clearly conservative, with potentially Scalia-like judicial mindedness. Perhaps he’s not a complete disciple of the, at times, radically pro-corporate, anti-working class … Continue reading →

On October 12, 2014 I posted a blog that took to task the Democratic party for its decades long descent into becoming “enablers” of the what has been an even much longer descent into corrupt and self-serving politics by the … Continue reading →

I’ve invoked Plato, George Orwell, Hunter S.Thompson, Ralph Kramden, The Onion, and Thunderclap Newman, among others in my last several pre and post-election 2016 postings in attempting to deconstruct the 2016 campaign for President. Now, in less than 48 hours, … Continue reading →

The Russian ambassador is gunned down in an art gallery in Ankara. A crazed  truck driver from Tunisia plows into a crowd of Berliners gathered at an outdoor Christmas market. Tis the season! Happy Hollow-daze, people. Oh, and so many more examples … Continue reading →