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  • Good, Open Ears, Shut Mouth and Stories for Now

    The minority party is making little headway and in fact losing ground. How can this be? Perhaps their lesson here is almost anything is better for a human being than being patronized. “I feel your pain . . . etc.” as the old cartoon went. If you have the income and education you are in…

  • Good, Good Connections, and Useless Knowledge

    It is becoming more apparent as a nation we have too little natural resistance against dictatorship.  The take over of the major balancing components of our democratic government is nearly complete.  The controlling political party is hard wired to compliance to a President having checked their souls at the door of Congress.  The other political…

  • Good and When the Rich Pick the Pockets of the Poor

    There is talk about reducing Medicaid benefits and looking at SNAP. Never have the rich picked the pockets of the poor, but for the current administration they have even figured that one out. No need for DOGE to personally to sneak a risk and reach into the pockets of thrift store winter clothed customers grabbing…

  • Good, Staggering Hubris, and Taking on the New Testament

    Apparently this Administration is also rewriting the four Gospels of Christianity. Even for this writer, the sheer bluster of this hubris leaves me nearly, but not quite, speechless. Usually such exploitive hypocrisy hides behind selective silences and knowing glances but with this vice president, all that is required is to simply revise what is universally…

  • Good and Treating the Wounds of Chaos Governance

    I see there are now right wing leaning Senators and Representatives that are noticing economic pain in their Districts from these arbitrary budget cuts being inflicted by the current administration. Farmers, Small Businesses, entrepreneurs schools and Universities are seeing the immediate local impact of the cuts on daily life and income. We will surely have…

  • Good, Unforgiving MAGA, and a New Kind of Inhumanity

    The news service article was a throw away; something about the boos for Taylor Swift at the latest Super Bowl. But then the new president of our nation is quoted as having made a very low-end comment saying the boos are a sign of a “very unforgiving MAGA”. He apparently thought this was a good…

  • Good, Morality or Business?, the False Binary

    When I read one of our political parties had proposed concentrating the message more on business more than morality I had to press against both ears with my hands because my head was threatening to explode. When simple grade school morality about honesty becomes too heavy a burden for a political party or society to…

  • Good and the End of Liberal and Conservative Politics

    Liberal, progressive, and left wing have traditionally been associated with the Democratic Party and conservative, restrained and the right wing attach to the Republican Party. If this last election has shown anything it is the reality of those associations have flown off into the wind. Yet somehow that is the model we still carry in…

  • Good, Nurturance, and Designing to the Sound of the Wrecking Ball

    People who have their lives in order and may be getting bored often like to praise the virtues of chaos and the opportunities to be found in that state. Well, with this new wrecking ball approach to government, the good news is, if there is any truth at all to the virtues of chaos the…

  • Good and the Rules of Being a Human Being

    I am not about to come up with rules for being a human being, but if there were such of thing, in the face of tragedy the rule might be when something terrible and painful happens it is time to step aside and let grief take its proper place. Apparently the President has muscled the…