6 Nov, 2021
My Dad skated for the Minnesota Gophers hockey team after he finally got done serving “for the duration” in World War II in the Philippines. So, of course, he was our coach as we PeeWees tried to learn to play hockey in Minnesota in the late 1950s. As a coach, one of his favorite go-to instructions to us was, “OK, team, back to the basics!”...
When Richard Nixon died, those of us on the antiwar side of the barricades during his misbegotten presidency were driven to new lows of cynical despair by the image-washing...
We have a two-party political system, one that evolves with time, people, and circumstance...
4 Oct, 2021
Conventional wisdom tells schoolchildren that the US was the first modern democracy, modeled to some degree after the Greek experiment from a couple thousand years ago...
17 Sep, 2021
The US Capitol is about to be treated to a rally by Trump supporters, organized by a former Trump campaign official, in support of the deadly insurrection on 6 January 2021...
10 Sep, 2021
I vividly recall reading Bill McKibben’s prophetic work, The End of Nature, serialized in The New Yorker beginning 11 September 1989..
31 Aug, 2021
There is no serious doubt or debate: anthropogenic (human-effected) activities are driving more hurricanes than ever, more intense killer heat waves than ever in recorded meteorological history...
20 Aug, 2021
Imagine the Biden approach to leaving Afghanistan were done as if success and saving lives were the priority...
19 Aug, 2021
I'm sure many of us older players recall where we were when the planes hit on 9.11.2001...
7 Jul, 2021
In these Not-So-United States, talk of secession is growing. It has always been a micro-undercurrent, but it is relatively common nowadays.
1 Jul, 2021
The Trump/McConnell-packed Supreme Court has begun to live up to the fondest hopes of fascist Republicans. They ruled that the voter suppression law passed in Arizona is Just Fine.
25 Jun, 2021
The temperature in my historically cool and temperate city, Portland OR, is projected to be a historic 114 degrees today.
19 Jun, 2021
After decades of educating us about the horrific history of Texas slaveowners refusing to let their illegally kept African-descended humans ...
22 May, 2021
In Myanmar in early March of this year, people began to attack and vandalize more than two dozen businesses...
17 Feb, 2021
A very young John F. Kennedy, World War II skipper of the small stricken PT 109, showed selfless courage and dogged persistence...
