Prelude to an inquisition

Featured image from Britannica.com. Follow the link for more information. Historians are going to look back at the early 2020’s with profound amazement, wondering how and why the people living in that time didn’t recognize the rise of new authoritarian, and if things are left unchecked, totalitarian rules and systems. There is historical precedent for […]

A house divided…

Featured image by Alan Levine. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. It feels like we’ve watched a car wreck, a fire, or an explosion over the last week. Attached is the text of the House Divided Speech from the National Park Service, follow the link for the original source material. I am […]

How Dystopia Begins

Featured image by Colton Vond. Follow for more of this artist’s work. For all the flash and flare that a dystopian cyberpunk world seems to get, the reality is that the descent into dystopia is both sudden and subtle. The banning of a president while still in office, the purging of social media accounts for […]

What is gained?

Featured image by Pom’. Follow for more of this artist’s work. What is gained by rioting? What is accomplished in using force to occupy a space or cause destruction? Seriously? What positive effect results from the Pro-Trump rally turned protest turned riot. Several years ago, there was a group that prevented Ben Shapiro from speaking […]

An American Reichstag Fire

Many people believe that these types of things could never happen to this country, that somehow our existence and history transcends the patterns and desires of human nature.

So it begins.

If the American People wish to have any semblance of a country left, they must tell the people who think that it is acceptable to storm the capital loudly and collectively “NO.”

Ripples

H.L. Menken was absolutely right when he said that “Democracy is the theory that the American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard.”

A Wednesday Rant

And all the while we treat each other like crabs in a pot…

Why Intersectionality will fail, and drag everyone down with it.

Featured image by Simon Jowett. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. Intersectionality is a powerful tool that is being used in today’s politics. By breaking down the immutable characteristics of an individual into the various intersections of race, sex, perceived gender, ethnic origin, sexual preference/orientation, etc., one can completely reshuffle the existing […]

And we’re supposed to be grateful.

Featured image by Alabama Extension. Follow the link for more… We’re getting another payment… yippee… I hope you can recognize the sarcasm in my writing. After months of back and forth “negotiations,” Congress has finally passed a second economic stimulus, promising payments of $600 for each adult making up to $75,000 (or $150,000 for married […]