After reading a lot of news and commentary and watching a lot of videos of MSNBC commentators and analysis, I’m still trying to get my brain around this historic event. An ex-President will be prosecuted for attempting to overthrow the government. What can I possibly say about it? One: You…

No one has benefited more from Affirmative Action than Clarence Thomas. There are actually TWO kinds of affirmative action. Justice Thomas has benefitted greatly from both. THE FIRST KIND OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: Thomas was admitted to Yale Law School under their official publicly announced affirmative action program. According to Newsweek: …

The date was August 28, 1982. I was living in the Haight, the famous hippie neighborhood next to Golden Gate Park. I was spending a…

The first Mother’s Day was in 1870. But it was conceived by Julia Ward Howe as… Mothers’ Day for Peace This is from Peace Alliance: “Julia Ward Howe was a prominent American abolitionist, feminist, poet, and the author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” She nursed and tended the…

On April 4th, two wonderful things happened. The first wonderful thing: The Rule of Law was Exercised. To quote our Nobel Prize-winning poet, Bob Dylan: “Something is happening But you don’t know what it is. Do you, Mr. Jones?” The second wonderful thing: The FEAR of the Rule of Law…

When I wrote my article about that disgusting misogynist “Karens In the Wild” Coloring Book,” I decided not to include my immediate response while I was in the store. I wanted the focus to be on the book, not me. …

Yesterday was lovely, as you can see. But this poor little bird hasn’t had an easy time since I last wrote. Last week on Tuesday, we had a major storm. As things seem to go lately, this major storm was more major than previous major storms. It was extremely major…

I sleep and work in my studio, which I reach by going out my back door and down a half of flight of stairs to the backyard. See the photo right. As you can see, there is a small tree right across from my studio door. It’s a fuchsia tree…

On the 20th anniversary of our country’s invasion of Iraq, I’m reading lots of pundits cudgeling their brains about why the hell we committed this insane war crime. …