Every Good Morning

You Can Listen Here: I know of the horror of what Hoover and the FBI did to Dr. King, and how too many police departments abuse their power — through fines and tickets, too many use poor communities to fund their cities or towns. Too many turn a blind eye to corruption, brutality, unlawful practices. Poor people too often suffer under the hands of too many officers. I know all this. I am not […]

You Can Listen Here: In a book whose title I have long forgotten, I remember that in preparation for combat on islands in the south Pacific, Marines were taught to let their eyes move slowly, continuously, over trees without looking for anything in particular, but to allow their predator’s or prey’s instinct to alert them to something off in a silhouette or shadow and to fire at that spot because it may be where […]

You Can Listen Here: Let us give thanks for Donald J. Trump for he has reminded us that we have the language to describe what we are seeing, that the words ‘lie’, ‘cruel’, ‘corrupt’, ‘cynical’, vile’, retain their meaning. Let us give thanks that Donald J. Trump and his Republican accomplices make statements or take actions every day that tie themselves to these words. For example, the loathsome Joe Arpaio running for Senate from […]