Author Archives: Phaedrus

This isn’t a new one by any means, and of course I can’t take credit for it. Saw it in a catalog. T-shirt or bumper sticker, it’s a fine product from what looks to be a fine outfit. A familiar lament echos through my head frequently these days, “How can someone who calls themselves aContinue reading “Every Time a “Christian” Defends that Guy…”

Are you suffering from Compassion Exhaustion, Outrage Overload, or Good Old Fashioned Burn-Out? We’ve been hearing a lot post rNC convention about liberals feeling depressed and demoralized. It’s only natural. It’s called GRIEF. Those of us who chose to bear witness were subjected to the spectacle of our nation’s dearest symbols, landmarks, and institutions usedContinue reading “Just Keep Swimming and Think of the Children”

Debate is shifting from “He didn’t say that!” to “You can’t prove it!” to “Citing anonymous sources proves that all journalism is hooey!” FAKE NEWS! Can calls for government censorship be far behind? As least no one is suggesting this time that he was joking. When the shouting stops, and I confess I hope itContinue reading “Dude probably couldn’t point to Iwo Jima on a map”

Portland “Patriots”, Kenosha militia, and at least one Southern congressman seem hell bent on mounting a real-life reenactment of the infamous final reel of American silent filmmaker D.W. Griffith’s 1915 civil war epic, The Birth of a Nation. If you think Gone With the Wind romanticizes the antebellum South and glosses over the evils ofContinue reading “The Original MAGA Caravan”

The Honest repubiKremlin Platform: LAW AND ORDER is for losers. Winners do whatever they want. Whattaya gonna do, sue me? Good luck. See you in court in 20 years unless you run out of money first. ha ha ha See plank #1 Shut the f*** up about Covid * * * * * * *Continue reading “A Cup of Warm Snark Before Bedtime”

I am 17 going on 18 I’ll take care of you By this point in the movie it should be clear to everyone who the bad guys are.

It happened. Incited by wild rumors, everyday people, not soldiers, fanned out across the countryside, day after day, slaughtering their neighbors with hand tools. Point of fact: Hutus and Tutsis aren’t even different tribes. It’s a class and economic distinction exacerbated by decades of colonial rule – farmers and cowboys quite literally. No one wantedContinue reading “In Rwanda They Did It With Machetes”

I know we HAVE TO go high when they go low, but don’t bring an encyclopedia to a mud fight is a good thought as is remember there are no insect politicians. So tempting to try THE BIG LIE. Not just Onion flavored parody – I mean serious, bona fide loony toons MALINFORMATION. If you’reContinue reading “Circles of Confusion”

HYPERBOLE, it seems, is the cardinal sin of Liberals these days. We exaggerate, blame everything on d45. Irrefutable proof that we’re DERANGED and clearly WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING. Never mind there are those who publicly condemn ALL PROTESTERS as America-hating bomb-throwing anarchists, or, better yet, ALL DEMOCRATS as Satan-worshiping pedophile cannibals. (I think the cannibal partContinue reading “The Importance of Being Accurate”

Whether you’re a hard line law and order hawk or a bleeding heart liberal I hope we can find some common ground here: The people attacking our communities are assholes. This is not about politics – it’s not even about race, it’s common sense, and in our heart of hearts I believe we all knowContinue reading “Anarchists or Assholes?”