Say It Ain’t So, Joe
So Joe Biden has formally and finally entered the race for the Democratic nomination. While he may be the front runner today, I’m guessing that comes almost purely from name recognition. And, in the...
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Stanley Cup Playoffs Round 1 Recap
Is there any other sport with a consistently more competitive first round of its playoffs than the NHL? Once again, this year’s playoffs highlight that it is far more important for a team to...
Edging Closer To The End Of American Democracy
Our democracy is under a three-pronged assault, from the judicial branch, from the executive branch, and from the legislative branch, and that assault is being driven by one of our two major parties in...
The Breadth Of The Kleptocracy
Rampant corruption is one sign of a failing democracy and becomes all-pervasive in an autocracy. With that in mind, let’s look at a couple of stories that might have fallen under the radar in...
Apparently, Only Democrats Can Be Asked To Act For Good Of Country
The release of the redacted Mueller report with its conclusions of probably criminal obstruction of justice by the President and significant and wide-ranging evidence of the Trump campaign’s collusion with the Russians which Mueller...
The Stop&Shop Strike
The Stop&Shop strike in the Northeast is now entering its second week. Over 30,000 unionized Stop&Shop workers are on the picket lines after months of contract negotiations with the company had produced no agreement....
Where We Go From Here
While we all digest every detail in Barr’s redacted Mueller report and the realization that the Attorney General remarkably tells a greater percentage of lies per words spoken than Sarah Huckabee Sanders and even...
Freedom To Let Others Die
We live in the reality theatre of the absurd. The fact that Donald Trump is President should be proof enough of that. And two stories today only highlight the absurdity of our politics today....