As the march toward disempowering women continues, mostly in the courts, I’m reminded that: Hillary was right. About everything. Kamala knew who Trump was, and she told us. Anita Hill warned us abo…

Long before I was a teenager, there were these movies on Saturday afternoons on television that featured Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. There were a bunch of them, but they all had the same theme:…

I know it’s not election season yet, and I think it’s possible that we may never have another election, but before we close down shop, I want to ask a question that is normally asked during electio…

There was a time when everyone knew these things, so I thought I’d try to bring us back to those days with these thoughts… think of it as a “philosophical pallet cleanser”. Kidnapping is a crime. I…

Juneteenth is today, so I want to do a little thought experiment. The story of Juneteenth, as I understand it is that today is the day the news got to Texas that all the slaves had been freed… long…

I saw the news today that ICE has deported 100,000 “illegal aliens” and had to say something . Mostly,though, I have questions. The Big One: WHAT DID THEY DO? How do we know that they&#…

We hear, in this budget bill, and in daily news, “Millions” and “Billions” and, at times “Trillions” of dollars to be spent, cut, wasted, made, etc….. In a…

I just attended a Bible Study on the book of Acts , particularly as it apples to LGBTQ+ people and the expanse of Christianity from being an exclusive sect of Judaism to being an inclusive religion…

I guess this is Memorial Day Weekend. I always think of it as being the last days of the month, (i.e the 31st), but here it is and I guess it’s this weekend. As a pastor and a pacifist, I really ha…

The “Big, Beautiful, Bill” may be big, but it is not beautiful. In fact, it’s so ugly … (How ugly is it?) that even Republicans don’t like it, and they have a “t…

I just listened/ watched a Zoom conversation with one of the Little Rock Nine and I realized something based in what she said. The woman said she prays for Donald Trump weekly as part of her faith …

I hear you folks are anti-science now, and anti-education as well, but I have a question for you: If a plane starts at 20,000 feet in the air and suddenly drops 5,000 then 5,000 more, but the pilot…

Ok, MAGA folks and Republicans in Congress, forget the Constitution. Apparently that doesn’t work for you. Forget the Rule of Law. That’s been over for a while now. Let’s try something else: your s…

John: Ok.

When I was in college, we used to say “When The Revolution Comes”…the world is going to look like this and we’d list off all kinds of things we hoped would happen — things like peace, love, harmony…

Could The Press Please Ask Them?

Donald Trump lies. A lot. He cannot be trusted ever. Kash Patel lied at his hearing. The measles outbreak will get worse. DOGE is not about saving money. It’s a con. Donald Trump is a Russian asset…

First off, let me say that Chris Murphy is great. In fact, he’s so great that I don’t want to call him and disrupt his work, but I do. Sometimes I call his office just to say “Keep up the good work…

I have never understood the concept of “Deep State”. Government was never a boogie man to me. Certain administrations, maybe, or certain choices in the budget, no doubt, but government ? In a gover…

Years ago, when I was involved in the anti-nuke movement, there was a saying that struck me as off-kilter. Later as a family systems therapist, I understood the problem with it. Lately, though, I k…

I went to a rally today in Hartford Connecticut, one of 50 rallies in 50 state, all at the same time, put together by “50501”. It was really grassroots — there were no speakers — but there were a l…

I just listened to Rebecca Solniz on a Nation podcast and was so inspired by her, I thought I’d ask different questions today.

It started years ago, partly of our own devising, and partly due to the zeitgeist, the German word the means “spirit of the times”. No one knows how it gets here or how it comes on a nation, but ev…

I’m not generally given to paranoia, so I feel comfortable putting this out, though I hope I’m wrong. As a retired therapist, I’m used to examining behavior and asking “Why does this person do some…

I’m watching the funeral of Jimmy Carter and I am so struck by so many things from my past, so many beliefs I remember “all” of us used to have, or so I thought. I’m also struck by church, the “mai…

“So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” — Matt.6:34 In the old days, when people got their news via the newspaper, you could …

Today, in Washington, D.C. the impossible will happen. Unless something strange happens, Kamala Harris, who was there for the last insurrection, will certify the Electoral College votes for a man w…

There is no particular reason I’m writing this. I just want to think about what the world should be like as we enter a new year and put it out there. People need to eat. They need to eat whether or…

The incident is being described as a holiday cruise gone horribly awry.

I was reading Jeff Tiedrich’s Substack this morning. He was talking about the surprises that people are getting once they realize what That Guy is “really” like. A friend posted a list of the good …

Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

I’m listening to the #Sisters-in-Law podcast and they are talking about how the D.O.J. should have started their prosecution, based on what we now know. They also talked about the rules invol…