Politics and its Discontents

While I have resolved to give as little space in my head as possible to the guy who won the American presidential race. I remain fascinated ...

I don't have anything especially interesting to about write today, so I thought I would put up this video that exemplifies the unapologe...

I awoke from a dream this morning in which it seemed I was being registered in a concentration camp, filled with forms and regulations that ...

On this blog I have never made a secret of my disdain for those who are willfully ignorant and mindlessly led. To allow someone else to do o...

Although no real good can come out of it, I continue to be both rivetted and repulsed by the ongoing devolution of American society. Everywh...

Newly-elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez articulates the kind of values that progressives pine for in their political leaders. G...

Robert Reich does his usual fine job of warning about threats to American society and democracy posed by the entrenched interests who care n...

I'm sorry. As Johnny Carson used to say, "I do not make these things up, folks, I merely report them." Click here to play ...

Ah yes, that land whose political representatives make our elected reprobates look like shining exemplars. For this edition of The Dark Side...

Earlier today, Owen at Northern Reflections, commenting on a piece by Joseph Stiglitz, wrote a post on student debt, a scourge on both sid...

Those who believe that the public is being as crassly manipulated about Iran as it was by the lies that served as prologue to the Iraqi in...