This one is a little random. Just a bit of thought exercise, both to help me organize my ongoing project(s), and to give you, the reader, an idea of HOW I arrive at my conclusions. I got the photo above by searching “plenty” on unsplash. This relates, heavily, to what…

Addressing gun violence and social discord as remedial civics lessons — In a previous article, I wrote about how we might fix the problem of gun violence in the United States. In that article, I proposed that a system of national service could help. That, like the right loves to say, guns are not the problem, people are. Now, I don’t…

Or is it that we don’t know how to handle the problem? — Today, as I write this, we are at 25 mass shootings for the year 2023. It’s January 22nd. Meanwhile, in Switzerland, a country whose national sport is rifle shooting? ZERO!!! Yet Switzerland has a huge amount of guns. Not just guns, but full automatic weapons. By law, most Swiss male…

But it is supposed to help people — Modern American governance is a Theatre of the Absurd. It makes me crazy to watch. It’s not just the right wing, either, though they are the leaders of the tragicomic side. It literally seems that all our leaders, so-called, have no idea of their function! The latest tempest in a…

Democrats need to stop playing placating games and go on the offensive. Particularly progressives, because we have regressed, significantly. — We need to stop the bullshit games. When the MAGA crowd starts throwing out their latest outrage our reaction should be to ignore them. They choose to act like toddlers and should be treated as such. Further, there should be no apology for it. Rather, a stern parental voice.

Something that comes up from time to time in my disordered mind… — I’ve run across numerous articles on this subject, and as usual, I have opinions. First off, my apologies for the long gaps. My life is often chaotic, I do what I can. That being said, let’s have a look at the possible impacts of underage voting. I’ll state up front…

That’s it. There’s no subtext. Do your civic duty and vote! — Unlike most of my articles, I’m not going to talk much about ideology, if at all, except to say that if you don’t vote tomorrow (assuming you have not already done so), then you are actively working against the continuance of the American Experiment. Obviously, I care a great deal…

Creating sanctuary towns to transition immigrants to American life — In the first part of this, I proposed a system whereby newly arrived immigrants are taken to a sanctuary where they basically have a self-contained community, including living quarters, a hospital, farming areas, and an on-site immigration court. While I’ve got this pretty well mapped out in my head, our…