Last year, I posted an article highlighting my writings of 2021 that made statements worth repeating for year-end consideration. I follow that new tradition again this year. It’s also an opportunity for new readers to sample my perspective without reading through an entire year’s posts. What I wrote this past year represents what I treat as most […]
Archives for 2022
Two Objects of Conservative Whining
There are two big stories going on right now that I’m intentionally not following because I can’t bear the constant whining. Two stories that I can do nothing about; two stories that involve the activism of democrats, primarily; two stories that also involve the cooperation of Republicans; two stories that are roundly derided by most […]
Prepare Your Children – The Seeds of a Future Much Different
In this piece, I make predictions thirty years forward from today. All futuristic predictions are by nature, a theory, regardless of who makes them. Due to the ideal of a ‘butterfly effect’, a tiny event that creates great changes in outcomes far away, my predictions could be nullified at any moment. However, future history has […]
The Stained Souls in Our Midst That Became What They Claimed to Hate
There’s an oppression waiting for a social movement to fix it. There’s corruption, collusion, violations of the constitution, and certainly crimes being committed on an unimaginable scale and as of yet, there is no justice yet to reign it in. Kari Lake got snuffed in Arizona with election illegalities, flagrant denial of voter access, gross conflict […]
The New Prevalence of Open Child Violence Enabled by Biden
There was a time when I had never heard of QAnon but it was a thing. It was comprised of lots of message boards with reputed far right people engaging in conspiracy theories. To this day, I wouldn’t know if I was talking to a QAnon-er. My attitude has been, there’s more than enough to […]
Gaslighting – Officially the Hottest Thing of 2022
Today, Merriam Webster, the dictionary folks, unveiled their word of the year, it is Gaslighting. I wish I had finished writing this article earlier because I cited the term in my draft. In that effort, I had already said: “Increasingly, the rhetoric of liberal progressives is becoming entirely detached from reality and reason. It’s ‘gaslighting’ but […]