Abstinence 6/24/22

The purpose here is not to lay blame. I’m not going to say it’s her fault, or the fault of the school, her parents, or even the church. What I will say is that I don’t believe she was given to tools necessary to protect herself, either physically or emotionally.

Father’s Juneteenth 6/20/22

the struggle didn’t end in 1865. In another five years, the fifteenth amendment gave African American men the right to vote on February 3, 1870. Then came the Jim Crow laws, designed to suppress minorities in individual states. In 1896, the Fourteenth Amendment was passed guaranteeing equal protection regardless of race as the law of the land in an effort to end the individual Jim Crow Laws. This wasn’t the end either.

The Show 6/8/22

the decision to go public with this information has turned the entire investigation into a political game show. If, indeed, their evidence is as strong as they are saying, it should be used in the courts to bring charges, the only way to get justice in our Constitution.

The Color Blue 6/6/22

I lean towards some of the cinematic classics, such as “Monsturd”, the heartwarming story of an eight-foot-tall piece of fecal matter that comes alive and starts to kill people. My friends will often tease me about my choices in movies, and rightly so.

LGBTQ+ Pride Month 6/5/22

For my LGBTQ+ friends, I am not one of you, but I am a staunch ally. I love all of you, and weep for your continuing struggle. And if you need anything, I am here for you, and will stand with you in your struggles.

Memorial Day 5/30/22

For my part, many thanks to all of our service people, and on this day, thank you to those who sacrificed their own lives for me, a person they had never met or known would exist.

Gun Nuts and Nuts With Guns 5/28/22

our politicians won’t talk. Too many of our politicians are backed by the NRA, which stifles them with fear of losing a source of funding (yes, I’m saying the NRA owns them, bought and paid for), but that’s only part of the problem.

Cell Phones 5/18/22

The plan backfired, spectacularly, as the next thing I heard was a chorus from several students saying loudly, “DO MINE NEXT!!!”

Famous 5/6/22

“Well,” he said in a serious voice, “I think you should get out of bed, come upstairs, and have some sponge cake with General Michael Miltstein of the Soviet Union.”

Do No Harm 5/4/22

Loss of civil rights is not so much because of those who vote them in as it is those who fail to vote them out.