Politics
We spend so much time criticizing you, pointing out faults and trying to fix you, I just wanted to remind you that I love you with all my heart.
You see, my love is one that is not based on jingoism, false patriotism or neo-fascist nationalism. It is TRUE love, the kind that requires an obligation to see you both as you have been and what you might be. The mistakes and atrocities of our common past, mixed with the unlimited potential for greatness. What makes me love you is not buried in musty history but gleaming with the possibilities of what may yet become real.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
As it turns out, Donald J. Trump is incorrectly compared to Ronald McDonald. Actually, as regularly it is being revealed, Mr. Trump is that Wiley Coyote (forgive the mixed mammals), Monsieur Rénard, le Fox!
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
Several months ago, Douglas Hughes, 61, of Ruskin, Florida, flew his self-made gyrocopter from Gettysburg, PA to Washington, DC, and landed on the lawn of the nation's capital. The Idiot Free Zone created a homage to someone we thought a hero. Hughes, then an employee of the U.S. Postal Service, was making a political statement by delivering a letter to each member of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
Just above the Mall it came;
A loop around George’s needle.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
Donald Trump says that John McCain is no war hero. He went further by denigrating the fact that McCain was captured. In breaching the subject of military service, Trump opened himself up to questions as to why he himself did not serve. He mentioned deferment after deferment and a bone spur in the foot. Not remembering which foot, he referred his questioners to the archives. As any fool can plainly see, this scenario is a death knell for a presidential aspirant. Trump may be completely consumed by his egomania, but as his dubious-numbered billions do attest, he certainly is no fool.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
The governments of the U.S. and Cuba currently are in the process of re-establishing diplomatic relations. Concurrently, they also are following steps to bring to the U.S. a Cuban-developed, therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer.
Read more: CUBA’S WORLD-CLASS MEDICINE vis-à-vis MIAMI’S TIRESOME CHAGRIN
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
ARISTOTLE: Socrates, Socrates! Every time I come here, you pretend to be dying.
SOCRATES: (Startled, drowsy) Did I miss the hemlock again?
- Written by: Gregory Boyce
- Category: Politics
By design we are creatures that live and function in a global society that thrives off of prepackaged hyperbole and scripted sensationalism. Too often we are simultaneously caught up in the hype of cynicism while publically expressing how we feel about the private life of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West; the financial net worth of Jay Z and Beyoncé and the silliness of comparing Donald Trump's toupee to an American Dagger Moth Caterpillar.
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