The answer is no. At least I think it is. And I get that partly from my unwillingness to surrender to their rule. But I ask the question because I am not certain, and I am concerned that too few Americans recognize how close we are to losing control of this country to fascism. I …
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The International Picture
For all that’s going on in United States politics, courts, and civil turmoil, there is also an international picture. Oh, yeah. The Russian invasion of Ukraine goes on, and will likely go on for a long time. If something surprising doesn’t happen, this grinding war will go through this year and maybe the next. We, …
The End Goal Is A Theocracy
The end goal is a theocracy This is the desire of the Christo-fascist force driving the political right in the 21st Century. The success of placing federalist justices on the Supreme Court over the last couple of decades is paying dividends for this group. The recent decision to overturn the half-century old Roe Vs. Wade …
The Last Full Measure Of Devotion
Many will recognize these words from President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. He gave the address while consecrating a cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, following the victory of the Army of The Potomac in the battle that was fought there four months earlier. He was speaking of the soldiers who had died in that battle, and offered …
SCOTUS v. The People
Recently a draft opinion from the Supreme Court was leaked to the press. It was written by Justice Alito, and appeared to suggest that the court has voted to overturn the earlier Supreme Court decision from 1972 known as Roe v. Wade. That decision, which stated that the right to abortion was protected by privacy, …
Manhood
It’s late April 2022 on planet Earth, and in the United States of America there is plenty of talk about manhood. Way too much talk about manhood. And typically it is about the supposed decline of manhood, and the macho steps necessary for men to win back that manhood we are so lacking. Ugh. This …
Thoughts On Faith
There is a gulf between those who wish to examine and test ideas against the physics of our natural world, and those who are content to believe something not so examined, but instead proclaimed by someone or thing they accept as authority. I have heard faith defined as the excuse people give for believing in …
All Hail The Oxford Shoe
(I’ll Save The Oxford Comma For Another Day) There is a hierarchy of shoes in the menswear world, though in the 21st Century fewer men follow the rules of style than a few decades before. But for some environments and situations these time honored dress codes survive and continue to support the sobriety and respect …
Consent Of The Governed
“Governments are instituted among Men, and derive their just power from the consent of the governed.” The idea did not originate in that document, but has been found in writings going back over eight hundred years and was repeated by thinkers and political philosophers who inspired the founders of our Republic. If the phrase isn’t …
Patent Elastic Ankle Boot
Patent Elastic Ankle Boot In the 1830s an English shoemaker named J. Sparkes-Hall was trying to develop a slip-on boot that didn’t require lacing or buckles, and was short enough that a person could easily put them on and take them off without assistance. He tried several different methods to mixed or poor results, but …