The last four days have been both stressful and celebratory for the LGBTQ community. On Friday, Donald Trump issued an Executive Order removing the Obama era protections for the LGBTQ community from discrimination in the health care industry. Condemnations were swift. 2020 Presidential Democratic Nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden posted on social media: … Read more
UPDATE to Post of 6/2/20: My Darkest Concern: The Pandemic Coup. Well, that didn’t take too long. Essentially only a few days from my finally having published my concerned musing. The crisis did not exactly come the way I had imagined, but it did come. Trump essentially tried an extra-constitutional use of the military against … Read more
Permanent musical accompaniment: Don’t Fear The Reaper (Blue Öyster Cult 1976). The Trump Death Cult announced its “Don’t Fear The Reaper” COVID Concert Tour 2020 last week. “It’s to die for!” The Trump campaign is coming to states with a big surge in coronavirus outbreaks, beginning in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa Health Department director ‘wishes’ Trump … Read more
In one of the more effective, and ironic, political ads so far this year, the group Republican Voters against Trump has released an ad called “Lindsey Graham loves Joe Biden.” In the video (please see below,) you have South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham in the 2016 campaign calling Mr. Trump: “Race-Baiting.” “Xenophobic.” “Religious Bigot.” This … Read more
The atrocities of WWII resulted in the establishment of international models of behavior that embedded basic human rights. The Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights outlines some of these basic principles. Every country has to figure out the balance of giving police the ability to do their job of … Read more