Edited from my friend, Atticus : Many are now asking me to "forgive" and "excuse" and "reach out to" people who haven't only spent the last four years trying to destroy me and all that I hold dear, they are still trying to do that and … [Read more...]

Everybody's laughing at Trump's team holding a press conference between a crematorium and a dildo store, but at least they're in the right place after a whole nation told them to f... off and die.   Chris Brookmyre … [Read more...]

and Vice President - Elect Harris. Pennsylvania gives Scranton Joe 273 electoral votes and makes him the 46th President of the United States. Congratulations President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris! Our long national … [Read more...]

In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in South Carolina when a 9 year old black boy, Ronald McNair, refused to leave.  He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT and died in 1986 aboard the space shuttle Challenger.  The library … [Read more...]

Over 66 million Americans who lived through the last four years decided they wanted to give Donald Trump four more years to keep going.  I don't know what's worse : they were successfully manipulated by propaganda or they saw exactly what … [Read more...]

Ransacking his mental thesaurus in search of exactly the wrong words, and finding them, President Trump, in his early Wednesday-morning coda to his kamikaze campaign, distilled into six words a suitable cri de coeur for the leader of a … [Read more...]

On October 24 the UN's Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons reached the necessary threshold of being ratified by 50 member states.  This means that in 90 days the treaty will enter into force, banning nuclear weapons, 75 years after … [Read more...]

All politics are personal. When we first met in '08 we bonded as survivors; his aneurysm, my cancer.  We pledged to keep fighting.  This year, we shared our Gold Star family loss; his son Beau to brain cancer, my brother Peter in Vietnam … [Read more...]

From a friend kpete :  "While my husband was queued up to vote someone pulled up to the line outside the church in their car and asked, "How long have you been waiting?"  And some guy in the middle of the line yells, "Four years!"  And the … [Read more...]

"Last night Trump attacked Medicare for All as "socialized medicine."  Funny.  I didn't hear him complain when he received the best socialized medicine in the world for free at a 100% government run hospital.  Yup.  Trump loves socialism … [Read more...]