More Hate

If you are reading this, you don’t need to be told or reminded of the tribal hate that exists in the United States.  It could be racism or homophobism or misogyny.  I mean, just looking at a TeapubliKKKan rally where the attenders are exclusively white skinned and you know it. But these two examples, while [...]

Harvest

This story had it’s genesis last fall and is not about politics.  This is about potatoes. Sometime last fall, Mrs. Chief thought it might be a good idea to grow some sweet potatoes.  We found all we could about the culture of sweet potatoes and sent of to a seed company for the minimum number [...]

Where The RepubliKKKans Learned It

From driftglass: [Hitler's] primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will [...]

Taxes – Part 2

In Part 1, I addressed taxes.  In this part I will speak to “small business.” The second item on the Repubs “Pledge to America” is – Allow small businesses to take a tax deduction equal to 20 percent of their income This would sound, well, maybe, half good untll we find out how the “small” [...]

Taxes – Part 1

A funny thing happened on my way to writing about the Repubs “Pledge to America.”  The first two items – Stop job-killing tax hikes – Allow small businesses to take a tax deduction equal to 20 percent of their income have to do with taxes.  So I looked up US tax rates and found this

CSA ! CSA!

Here is David G.’s piece at Balloon Juice: As of late I have been immersing myself in some good old Civil War history. I just finished McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom and I have been enjoying David Blight’s lectures on the subject from his class at Yale, as well as the amazing discussions and ideas [...]

D A D T

I am going to write something, that no matter how I say it,  will be mis-understood – either because of my inability to articulate it properly or by the reader already having a position that does not comport with what I am saying. Far too many on the right say that having gays/lesbians serve openly [...]

How We Got Here

The post-WW2 period – the last sixty-five years, or so – can be divided into two vastly different, but slightly over-lapping periods. If one wonders how we got to where we are today, the rich getting richer and unemployment approaching 20 percent, then one needs to understand what I am about to say and research [...]

I Wonder

The house we currently live in and bought and moved into about 4 years ago was built in 1967.  It is a standard ranch with three bedrooms, brick veneer, one story with a large addition that was added in 1987.  Brick is great.  Low maintenance and as I rapidly approach the beginning of my eighth [...]

Gloomy

Maybe I am unnecessarily gloomy.  I really do hope so.  But the ‘arc’ is not bending towards justice but towards a two-tiered society.  Five percent very wealthy and 95% poor. It is too late. Maybe if the Brooks Bros people hadn’t stormed the doors and the Florida recount had gone on with a Gore victory, [...]