The bane of totalitarians are the free-spirited artists and writers because, at their best, their work offers a powerful reflection of the strength, protest, aggression, fear, love, hate, passion, comfort and the general pain and hardships of the people. Great art has the power to make people uncomfortable about their lives…

A federal appeals court has ruled that a person’s right to have a gun is more important than protecting the lives of spouses and child victims of domestic violence. In a moment of deranged absurdity that will further endanger victims of domestic violence, the court has ruled that a person who…

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders cut her teeth as the obstructionist, misleading, second press secretary for ex-president trump. And now she is steeped in virtue signaling as she riles up her base to fight the wokeness. It is unlikely that the first term governor had a burst of genuine compassion when…

There is a war raging in Ukraine and we have seen the gruesome images of blood and destruction on television news reports but that concern has slowly turned to impatience baked by feelings of impotence and hopelessness. Another mass shooting is reported in a school and again we are shocked…

Forget about Daisy pop guns, caps and “you’ll shoot your eyes out,” today’s kids can have their very own simulated, .22 cal. semi-automatic assault rifle. Guns kill an estimated 18,000 children and teens a year, making firearms the leading cause of homicides and suicides of young people between the ages of…

Two of the most brazen, outrageous right wing conspiracists in Congress are both certain, without proof of course, that China created the COVID-19 virus in a laboratory and set it free on the world. But who needs objectivity? The two were named to the new House committee to get to the…

We are living in a time when truth and fact are intentionally twisted and woven in vicious lies and fiction, an ascendant time for far right neo-Nazis, white supremacists and Christian nationalists. It is a time when a violent insurrection at the nation’s Capitol by supporters of a traitorous president is…

All those Rambo wannabees who insist it is their beloved second amendment right to own an AR-15 style, semi-automatic assault weapon have been bought and packaged by the gun companies and the NRA. They just don’t know it even though it shouldn’t be so hard to understand that they are…

You might want to tie up those loose ends, empty out the bucket lists, finally apologize for those longstanding insults and stop procrastinating about that adventure to Nepal because the world may just blow up in about 100 metaphorical seconds. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. Now that we…