PC in DC

When I grew up a couple (ahem) decades ago in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, Billy Kilmer was the quarterback for the Redskins, we actually won a game or two, and I have fond memories of, the gods forgive me, my father in a construction paper head dress doing an "Indian dance" in front of the TV, all of us singing "Hail to the Redskins". Now if you think the NAME is bad, look at the lyrics to

Ya Can't Fight Crazy With Crazy

To try to convey all my thoughts and feelings on what has happened to the Republican Party over the last decade would be an entire book in and of itself. The highlights are such; for some reason the elected Republicans and their media shills became lying, paranoid infants when Obama took office, having felt unlimited power at their fingertips prior to that via the misnomer, The Patriot Act.

Palintology

Why does the name Sarah Palin still infect my ears? Who is this woman and how has she stretched her 15 minutes of fame into years? As far as I can tell, she was a mediocre governor of our most desolate state, who could not handle the job so she quit. She is a quitter. Who does that? It's a governor  position for crying out loud, who can't do that?  In Alaska? Yeah, OK, she claims

Living In The Real World at McDonalds

I consider myself a social liberal, to the dismay of my family and ancestors. However, even my bleeding heart is disgusted at the thought of fast food workers making $15 an hour for pulling a basket out of hot oil when the bell rings. I understand everyone wants to make a living wage and I am socialist enough to feel that our well to do should be taxed so that we can temporarily subsidize

The Great American Lie (Or At Least One of Them)

A friend of mine was a high level economist for the government. he was rich and lived in a big house in a rich suburb of Virginia. Eventually he took early retirement, telling people he wanted to take care of the house while his wife went back to school, but in reality he simply could not stand the lies and deceit this nation is founded on. This was the early 1980's. I was young and still had