Trapped in A U.S. Sanctioned Afghan Love Prison So, this is not about a metaphoric prison. This is about an actual prison. The point here is that when we think about whether what we did in Afghanistan, and how we withdrew, is right or proper has nothing to with, well, Afghanistan. Not only was the outcome never in…

Games of Hope We Play in the Middle of Trump’s Night The title is a line from a song by the Alan Parsons Project, Games People Play. It was haunting to me as a child, forecasting a future of middle age when the children are grown and gone, and “nobody…

Polite White Protest Group Seeks Solace and Remorse for Upsetting Democracy Privileged Tourist-Protesters Snap Selfies During Historic Vote This just in: Today angry whites storm the barricades at the Capitol Building. Despite a smattering of armed police forces protecting it, they are reported to make it “violently” through four barriers…

Sealing the Victory of Trump’s Gains — “Some of those that burn crosses are the same that hold office” — Rage Against the Machine, Zack de la Rocha when playing live As VP Mike Pence blessed 11 GOP senators’ defection on January 2, 2021 to what appears to be the…

End Slavery in America Now! [No, seriously] That entire system of slavery that formed after 1865 was euphemistically called “sharecropping.” It was in actuality slavecropping. Swapping out the names did not swap out the practices. Instead, it codified them. Like in the Texas laws written right after the Civil War…

The President “chose not to act” as Mob Set up the Lynching Platform I tuned in just at the end of the extraordinary historical trial where the U.S. government’s congressional branch finally and solemnly admitted what the executive branch did was wrong. …

Amoral Integrity Keeps Congress from Curing the “general Welfare” You can blame Congress. You can blame the President or executive branch. You can even blame the Supreme Court. But it is NOT their fault. It is yours. You are addicted. You are the addict. Addiction, like racism, is not their…