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That Flag Needs A Spellcheck

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That repugnant, impudent flag needs a spellcheck.  Well, at least the first two letters are right. 

Nothing should make any American’s blood boil more than seeing fellow Americans flying a flag clearly intended as a redefinition of their country in the name of an insurrectionist who has left an indelible wake of death behind him, a fomenter of political violence in his own name and for his own sake, a self-serving pathological liar hell-bent on installing himself as this nation’s all-powerful ruler. … Continue reading

A Casual Encounter With the Demise of Rationality

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Where do thinking Americans draw the line with sheer idiocy?  A lot is being bandied about suggesting respect for other points of view.  And sure, it’s a nice thought, even a noble one.  But to what degree is blatant stupidity worthy of respect, especially when it seeks you out? … Continue reading

Beware of GOP’s Deeper Motives

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As most Americans continue to mull the myriad negatives of the monstrous mass moron-a-thon that is the Trump administration, they should be highly suspicious of the GOP’s less obvious possible motives.

While there is nothing overt to suggest that the evident Republican power lust seemingly marking the party’s every sycophantic whim is anything but genuine, no thoughtful observer should rest confident that the whole picture is visible.… Continue reading

No Such Thing as Fake Insurrection

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Insurrection is a word America might soon know all too well.  No doubt a few people clinging wantonly to their deepening denial will want to put an adjective in front of it.  It won’t work.  Some things are serious enough to command reality, and some realities are powerful enough to claw open the iron-caged faces of even the most profoundly resistant.… Continue reading

Glass Towers, Mr. Trump

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“What are you looking at?” a man asked his breakfast companion, who was transfixed by his cell phone.

“Just seeing what kind of chaos he’s causing today,” came the reply.

Mediavenger was quietly enjoying a solo breakfast at one of his favorite casual morning haunts and couldn’t help but overhear the conversation from a booth away, especially after having wrongly politically pegged the older blue-collar white men and accordingly dreading that the subject of the new president would pop up.… Continue reading

Mainstream Media Miss the Point on Anthem Protests

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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the National Anthem ignited an incendiary controversy that showed no sign of cooling until the debacle of the 2016 presidential election hosed down everything else.  Americans should still be horrified — not by Kaepernick’s behavior, but by the reactions of too many other Americans of torch-bearing villager mentality who clearly have forgotten the heart of the freedom that they somehow imagine is threatened by the absence of rote obeisance.… Continue reading

The Baby, the Bathwater and the Electoral College

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The American people elected Hillary Clinton president this Tuesday, but the bloated, archaic shadow land called the Electoral College will meet next month to elect Donald Trump president instead.

This sad subversion of the will of the voters should be far more than a footnote in history, but what else can it be in a system that takes the direct will of the people away from them and hands it to a small, separate political body, something we do only, incredibly, when filling the highest office in the free world?… Continue reading