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“I can take about an hour on the tower of power/’Long as I gets a little golden shower” Frank Zappa, “Bobby Brown,” Sheik Yerbouti —— Today’s NYT website headline:  “How a Sensational, Unverified Dossier Became a Crisis for Donald Trump” … Continue reading →

Happy Birthday Kid Blast. I miss you more each year.

As Donald Trump readies himself to become Commander-in-Chief, he has already signalled that he wants to start another arms race, to expand and outmatch America’s nuclear rivals–presumably China and Russia principally.  The media and liberals are justifiably in arms, but … Continue reading →

There’s just god when he’s drunk. 11th of the month so the reminder is always sharper, stings more. It’s snowing out and Kelsey used to love the snow because he saw it infrequently. The snow cooled him off, tamped down … Continue reading →

Good friend and longtime comrade Woody Woodruff posted an article today on FB about a group of protestors who were planning to confront an Alt-Right/White Supremacy meeting.  The numbers expected for the demo were small, but that’s not a problem.  … Continue reading →

Donald Trump was opposed, vigorously, by Wall Street, by the media, by the ruling class, by other mega-billionaires like Mark Cuban, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates. And he won. In a very fucked-up and dysfunctional way, it means democracy won out. … Continue reading →

These are dark times for many of us who have certain political and human ideologies, who actually give a damn about each other and the planet in general. I’m reading and seeing alarm and panic and real fear–and that’s not … Continue reading →

OUTLINES FOR 1302 LECTURES Aftermath of the Civil War   3 Key Issues ReconstructionSlavery, Freedom, and Civil RightsKKK, Lynchings, Sharecropping      14th Amendment    Western Movement and Indian Genocide,  Tribal “Sovereignty”Wounded Knee Triumph of Capitalism  (North v. South), Means of Production, Government Intervention … Continue reading →

Pretty much everyone’s become engorged with rage over Donald Trump’s not-so-cryptic reference to his penis size in the GOP Prez Debate a few days ago.  But when it comes to presidential johnsons, he’s not in the same league as President … Continue reading →