The Summer That Will Always Be Remembered … At 1:00 a.m. this morning, the time I would normally be responding to comments, catching up on the day’s news, and trying to find a focal point for my afternoon post, I began watching a documentary. Our friend Keith recommended this one a while back, and I had […]
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Access to Clean, Safe Drinking Water: A Racial Justice Issue One of the most basic human needs is … water. Without it, we die … it’s that simple. Brendan over at Blind Injustice has written a post to remind us first of the importance of potable water, and second, how water supplies around the globe, and […]
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Today, I would like to introduce you to two anomalies. These are people, relatively young people, who serve in the U.S. Congress and are members of the Republican Party. What, you ask, makes them an anomaly? Two things: they are intelligent and most importantly, they have a conscience. Yes, a conscience … I know it’s […]
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Goodbye Indians-Hello Guardians Posted on July 27, 2021 by jilldennison Change happens, we as humans evolve as the world changes around us … it is how we survive, by adapting. One of those changes is the removal of racist symbols like Confederate statues, and renaming some sports teams. Our friend Jeff shares with us his […]
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When Conservative became Noservative Posted on July 24, 2021 by jilldennison Our friend Brosephus shares his thoughts on today’s Republican conservatives, or ‘noservatives’ as he so aptly dubs them. What, he asks, has happened to the Republican Party in the past decade or two? […] Read more …
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Tears Of Shame … Yet Again Posted on July 20, 2021 by jilldennison Over the past few weeks, we have read with horror about the discovery of unmarked graves at Canada’s boarding schools that housed indigenous children a century ago. But guess what, folks? We may well find the same here. The U.S. does NOT have […]
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I haven’t re-blogged TokyoSand’s weekly cartoon posts for the past couple of weeks because the ‘toons seemed just too dark. Not TS’ fault at all, but just a statement of the way things are these days … it’s hard to find humour in things some days. However, I found this week’s to be grin-worthy and […]
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A Gross Miscarriage of Justice Texas has been much in the news lately. First you had the winter storms … people dying because of power outages that could have been avoided had it not been for the stubborn resolve of the state to be independent of the rest of the nation. And off went ol’ Ted […]
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Many things bother me at the moment: Those who are actively rejecting the COVID vaccine; the determined obstruction by the Republican Party in Congress; climate change and those who refuse to so much as lift a finger to help reverse decades of man-made damage; wealthy people not paying their fair share in taxes; the ignorance […]
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Texas, like many other states, has been desperately looking for cases of voter fraud in the 2020 election. Finding none, they seized on a 62-year-old man … a Black man, naturally … to make an example, to plead their case for the latest round of voter suppression laws they are attempting to pass. Charles M. […]
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