Woke

Woke is an interesting term. Prior to the modern conservative obsession with it, the word had a definition that made sense. Woke was a slang term for people that understood the systematic historical oppression of racial inequality. They woke up and saw the racial injustice. That was all it was. I don’t love the term,… Continue reading Woke

The Way We Were

Progressives are nearly always right. Conservatives are nearly always wrong. It’s built into the language of politics. Progressives want progress. Progress heavily implies improvement. In political terms that improvement is across a large swath of the population. They do not currently ‘have’. Conservatives don’t want progress. They want to conserve what they have because it’s… Continue reading The Way We Were

America the Guntiful (or Bullet-Murders Make the NRA Really Happy)

Fuck your guns. Let’s get that out of the way first. Police in North Carolina are searching for a man accused of shooting a six-year-old girl and her father after their basketball rolled into the suspect’s yard. “ A man has been charged with second-degree murder in the US after he allegedly shot and killed… Continue reading America the Guntiful (or Bullet-Murders Make the NRA Really Happy)

Because And Effect

Let’s start with the basis: there are still too many Trump voters who survived COVID, failed revolutions, and their own regretfully, unfulfilled Darwinian destiny. Simply put, “they’re not dead yet”. Unfortunately. For those of us with the clarity of mind to understand and assess how we got “here” (meaning the war in Ukraine, the loss… Continue reading Because And Effect

Fresh Fruit

In soviet Russia, it was hard to find fresh fruit. There are plenty of places on the planet today where you can’t even get bad fruit. Western societies have often forgotten what it’s like to pick through a store and try to find a rare vegetable or piece of fruit. I mean, 24×7, 365 I… Continue reading Fresh Fruit