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Memorial Day, 2015. Speeches. Parades. Visits to military and civilian cemeteries . Or simple personal remembrances, in one’s home, or strolling alone in a park, warming a bar stool, still trying to sort it out, the how and the why. I’ve been … Continue reading →

Michael Brown, Furguson, Missouri. Freddy Gray, Baltimore, Maryland. Small town and big city police, the men and women in blue. To serve and protect. Right. Even when there are riots, as in Baltimore yesterday. Who knows about today? Mr.Brown and … Continue reading →

Rahm wins! Chuy says “we tried”. Right. Too bad more of those who had the most to gain or lose by either voting or not voting would have tried harder to get off their butts and cast a ballot for Chuy. Whom … Continue reading →

Hey, citizen voters! Ready to make your voice heard? Sure, tomorrow it’s just a mid-mid-term type of election, for the most part. Small potato offices compared to what is headed our way in November 2016, when a few trillion–ok, just … Continue reading →

In the 2000 Presidential election, Ralph Nader received almost 3 million votes. In 2004 he pulled in about 500,000 votes and over 700,000 in 2008, his last run for that office. In 2000 and 2004 Ralph was a Green Party … Continue reading →

Hey, ladies. Here’s to International Women’s Day. If your love interest hasn’t given you flowers, candy, a card and hard, long kisses, then read him/her/whoever/whatever the IWD riot act. With Hillary Clinton’s coronation as the U.S. of A’s first woman President … Continue reading →

Just when I was disgustingly admitting that I had resigned myself to our country’s descent into a permanent oligarchy, with elections marinated in money and the public’s sheepish complicity in the matter, some momentary sunshine has peeked through the ominous clouds … Continue reading →

My blog of a couple of years ago admonished an administrator with the Chicago Public Schools system regarding a decision to ban a graphic novel–Persepolis– as part of classroom reading assignments. At that time the “spin” put on the matter … Continue reading →

Allow me to reflect on the latest Hollywood recreation of our country’s military campaigns in the post-911 world. By now, there have been more than a few films that take “actual events” of either the Afghan or Iraq deployments of our … Continue reading →

It’s colder than a well digger’s ass in Siberia here in Chicagoland on this January 8th. Well, I suppose maybe colder still, if digging that well in the arctic hinterlands. No, wait. Climate change changes everything, including Alaska not having a … Continue reading →