A few weeks ago, Pope Francis elevated Bishop McElroy of San Diego to Cardinal, and all billy ned broke out in right wing Catholic commentary. I’m so Okie-centric that I didn’t have a clue what the ruckus was about. Also, I wasn’t all that worried about it. My attention was more or less focused on my family and current events in the larger world. The Church has become an on-going pie-throwing fight. Catholics are always and forever attacking other Catholics... Read more
If you missed last night’s House Committee hearings on Trump’s 1/6 Insurrection attempt, you can watch it all here. The hearing begins at 3:40. I won’t say enjoy, because there’s nothing enjoyable about a sitting POTUS trying to destroy American democracy. But, as I told my grands, this is history, and whether or not we hold the people who did this accountable will determine whether they grow up in a free country or not. Read more
Tonight is the first televised hearing on the coup attempt of January 6, 2021. I want to make one thing clear. This was not a riot. It was not a crowd gone wild. It was an organized, premeditated attempt to overthrow the 2020 presidential election and install Donald Trump as the first unelected head of the American state, ie, the first American dictator. The real hammer that could have slammed the coup home wasn’t the angry mob that stormed the... Read more
The Uvalde hero mom who ran into school during the Uvalde, Tx shooting talks about police holding her back during the shooting and their failure not to go in. Read more
Fourth grader Miah Cerrillo shared her story on how she survived the mass shooting in Uvalde. You can watch it below. Read more
Matthew McConaughey grew up in Uvalde Texas. He is a gun owner and supporter of the Second Amendment, just like me and a lot of other people. After the mass shooting at Robb Elementary, he went to Uvalde and spent what sounds like a lot of time with the families of the murdered children and teachers. He gave an impassioned speech today calling for what he named “responsible gun laws.” His speech gave voice to things that many of us are... Read more
All you have to fear is being shot anywhere you go. Internet meme. Today’s Republican Party is not the Republican Party of yesteryear. That Republican Party ended slavery, built the interstate highway system, organized the mass vaccination against polio, worked with Democrats to form a united front in the Cold War, backed the Equal Rights Amendment, funded the war on cancer and provided massive funding for family planning. The Republican Party once worked to build this country, cared about... Read more
I am an Okie. I grew up with guns. I have no problem with gun ownership. But the mass slaughters that keep repeating throughout our country have got to stop. The sense of personal immunity which fuels our national indifference to these appalling slaughters is based on an illusion. That illusion is the belief on the part of those who haven’t been touched by the violence yet, that they have have a special shield of invulnerability around them. You are... Read more
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. Friedrich Neitzsche I’ve seen a lot of memes that are dissing the frequent comments politicians often make proclaiming that the victims of violence are in their “thoughts and prayers.” The import of the memes is that “thoughts are prayers” are not enough. We need action. I agree.... Read more
“I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son Our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into Hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into Heaven, and sits at the right hand of God, the Father almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit,... Read more
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