Sold souls. What do I mean by that? Simply this: those who have sold their own souls for the ultimately worthless gewgaws of this world, chiefly for wealth and power. Mostly, for the power to stomp on the faces of others with impunity. Always of those with less eartthly power than the…

Something about what we call ‘fire and brimstone’. It can energize and it can….burn. What does it burn up? I really don’t know. Considering liberal, democratic and Democratic aversion to it, does it burn out the neo-cortex which is indispensable for being fully human? Does it burn out hearts, leaving only a…

It seems as if all the mass murders, as they continue, will keep my fire and brimstone flowing. After hearing of what happened in Tulsa (and that the murderer actually bought the murder weapon after leaving the hospital!) that sets my f.& b. moving again all right! …

Here it comes. The ‘sermon’ that’s been brewing at least since 2010 and has boiled over with the latest shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde. Gentle (usual) readers, for the full effect here, you need to imagine me in front of a crowd of dough-faced ammosexual bipeds preaching this…

Historical amnesia. This, plus a refusal to look squarely at ugly facts or to think when necessary, are fascists’ bread and butter. For at least the last 42 years and probably longer, a large bloc of voters in this country have done this. Considering we elected a Grade B actor as president…

It seems my mind and David Brooks’s are running along similar tracks this morning, although I think I’m a little more interested in reconciling ‘tribal’ wisdom with multiracial, multiethnic democracy. Someone, somewhere has written this line: “Western Civilization was born in the creative tension between Athens and Jerusalem.” I can see…

Democracy is now under attack around the globe. It is being attacked both from without and within free, or partially free, societies. The attack from without is centered in Russia, which is currently not a free country. It can be argued that Russia has been the locus for reaction and autocracy since…

I read something today which first alarmed me and then had me thinking: the suggestion that Putin dreams of leading, along with the racist, fascist Bannon and his minions, a Great Revival of white ‘Christendom’. He wants to revive the ancient error of the ‘Cross-and-crown’ framework of society using a…

Enlarge the equation. Could this be the slogan which we on the political/economic left — Democrats, democrats, liberals, progressives, racial justice-seekers and Greens — need pretty badly? Something that says what needs to be said in a brief, understandable and memorable way? I thought of it today in what might be considered…