Why you can’t be a prepper in SoCal

Any hoo, I just read about the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe’s innovative solution to Pacific Gas & Electric’s preemptive rolling blackouts.  Now that we’re in a full blown climate crisis,  I think they’re on to something. It’s past time to ask ourselves if private sector mega utilities are up to the job. Is a publicly…

Milquetoast Mitch, Because… Democracy

So here’s the thing Mitch, do you mind if I call you Mitch, or would you prefer Milquetoast? Okay, Milquetoast it is. I understand not wanting to bring the house Dems’ more progressive or controversial bills  to the floor. That would mean you might actually have to vote on them. Because… Democracy. But there is…

Lies are not constitutionally protected.

I know  ya’ll are thinking… Messing with “free speech” is a slippery slope my friend,  we don’t want to toboggan down. Where does it end, right? Upon reaching the bottom, do we shoot off all willy-nilly, onto the a frozen pond? Its thin ice fracturing beneath the preponderance of weighty truth? But from the top, …

Shut the fuck up! You’re stupid is showing.

So another election season is almost upon us. Being heralded in by the multitude of pundit and political has-been’s (Donna Brazile) writing innuendo filled books and hit pieces in hopes of reviving flagging careers. Yep, things are fixing to get uglier than Uncle Bubba’s plumber’s crack, and twice as hairy.  So now’s the time to…

ProPublica’s Report on More than 400 Officials Trump has Quietly Deployed Across the Government. How bad does it have to get before the Republican Congress will act?

While Russian puppet Donald Trump systematically dismantles the American Dream, he’s also quietly filling the swamp, including dozens of former lobbyists, Trump campaign staffers and some affiliated with the online Alt-right. How bad does it have to get before the Republican Congress will act? What would they do if this was Clinton? Source: Here are…

Prophetic Mark Twain

There’s no getting around it. Mark Twain is America’s Nostradamus. The quotes below prove it: He predicted Twitter: “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” –Mark Twain The home foreclosure  crisis: “A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is…

The Price of Irresponsible Rhetoric

Dear President Trump, Although I didn’t vote for you, you are still my president. I may not like it, but the election’s over. You won. I have to accept that for the good of the nation. Now, for the good of the nation, I’m asking you to reach beyond your base and to start acting…