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GOP Cheapskates # Mitch McConnell

Yesterday the Democratically-controlled Congress passed HR-6395 over Donald Trump’s veto with the help of GOP defectors. Today Senator Chuck Schumer called on the Senate to unanimously pass the Bill upping the Relief Aid to the American public from $600 to $2000. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected the measure as a threat to the long-term […]

We Are So Fucked

In the first days of March 2020 I stood on Kilimanjaro with the Kili Iniitative Climb group. Once again I did not summit. At dawn I descended from the 16000 feet camp across the Saddle to the Horombo camp, where I met my friend Pendaeli. The Tanzanian park ranger said, “You can get the Internet […]

SEPTEMBER 2020

September 2020 was a horrible month. Forest fires torched California and Oregon. Trump gathered his devotees to maskless rallies and claimed Covid-19 was nothing to worry about as long as you rejected science in favor of the absolute beleif in the Almighty. Everyday our troops fought in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, and scores of nations across […]

Welcome Space Monkeys

THE WIRE’s third season was highlighted by Baltimore Police Major Bunny Colvin independently created a free-drug zone called Hamsterdam by the dealers and users. Downtown officials celebrated the drop in crime, until discovering the real reason for the positive reports. The end of the War on Drugs. Defund the police has become a rallying cry […]

Blast Away

Last hurricane season Donald Trump forwarded the idea of nuking a hurricane to weaken its cyclonic power. AXIOS reported in August 2019 that “They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they’re moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can’t we do […]