Every Good Morning

  It has come to the point where I cannot decode what I understand or maybe my last shreds of idealistic innocence and blindness are being swept away. Maybe I am just another damn fool sleeper awakening. Since Plymouth and Jamestown,  the US has always been a collection of accomplished killers and economic pirates. For proof of that spend just a few hours thumbing through the history of the Indian […]

I will leave aside his inexhaustible lying and his innate dishonesty, his arrogance, his vulgarity, racism, misogyny, and bone-deep ignorance and lack of curiosity, his destruction of the environment, his eternal corruption and thus his dishonorable use of the Presidency to enrich himself and his pals. I will leave aside his personal cruelty and his delight in punishment. What I chiefly loath about him is how he has spread his […]

Since his election in 2016, Trump has consistently sought to bend the law to serve him. This is the axiom of tyrants: the law and the courts and prosecutors must serve the ruler. Early in his administration, he called for the Justice Department to investigate his political rival, Hilary Clinton. He attacked federal judges for their decisions on immigration and his travel ban. Among other actions, he has used executive […]

Republicans under Trump are moving to destroy decades of environmental regulations that have made our lives better, our air and waters cleaner, our wildlife habitats more robust. They are doing so in pursuit of corporate support. For Republicans, everything is about short term profit. Kill the land, make the money. Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Accord. He regards Climate Change and all its attendant warnings and […]