THE CONTINUING COUP
I want to take a few minutes to honor the late Joe Bageant, who passed out of this world back in March. Joe was a longtime editor and writer, but only recently came to what prominence he has (or had)...
View Article“LET FACTS BE SUBMITTED TO A CANDID WORLD”
So, let’s revisit that American foundation document, “The Declaration of Independence.” IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course...
View ArticleTHE 2012 ELECTION: FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS
First the good news: In Tennessee in 2012, Green Party candidates will be noted as such on the ballot, not lumped anonymously with the “Independents.” I’ve been doing my best to shout this from the...
View ArticleRIGHT IDEA, WRONG REASONS
By now, everybody knows how Bigmouth Joe Biden came out of the closet on Sunday talk TV, causing Obama to grin sheepishly and admit, “Yes, we have,” followed by a double “thud” as the jaws of Michelle...
View ArticleNAACP vs. THE ZOMBIES
We just listened to Richard and Mimi Farina’s”House Un-American Activity Blues Dream,” an electrified and electrifying musical offering that preceded Bob Dylan’s more famous “Bringing It All Back Home”...
View ArticleROMBOMACARE INDUCES EPIDEMIC OF LONG-TERM MEMORY LOSS!!
i was much less surprised than most people, it seems, when the Supreme Court, in one of its notorious 5-4 decisions, upheld the so-called “national health care plan” that has become known, among both...
View ArticleNOT THE REVOLUTION WE HAD IN MIND…SO FAR
I came of age in the 1960’s. I was brought up Jewish, in a synagogue whose Rabbi was an enthusiastic supporter of the civil rights movement, travelled to the South on several occasions in solidarity...
View ArticleDILEMMA 2016
Things are reaching a pitch in the American political arena. Trumpenstein will be the Republican nominee, and, while the last chapters have yet to be written, it is now almost certain, as it really has...
View Article“GRAB ‘EM BY THE (CROTCH)–YOU CAN DO ANYTHING”
In family therapy, we often find that one family member in a dysfunctional family is “the designated patient,” the one who acts out all the family’s secret dramas and traumas, the one that everybody...
View ArticleLAUGHINGSTOCK NATION
Recently, our President addressed The United Nations, and something unprecedented took place. When he said, “My administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of...
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