Quick: how long since New Year’s Day 2025?

I’d make it 36 days. Not 36 years or months. DAYS. And yet, when JD gave his great pro-free speech oration in Munich this week— Munich, which had a few days previously suffered a mass murder by an Afghan Muslim— how many Americans remembered Shamsud Din Jabbar? He’s the guy who massacred a buncha people … Continue reading Quick: how long since New Year’s Day 2025?

Coup-coup!

DULY ELECTED PRESIDENT ATTEMPTS TO TAKE OVER THE US GOVERNMENT! Joy Reid called Trump’s efforts to examine and streamline government agencies a “coup”. How do they get away with this shit? Do they HEAR themselves? Trump is so right to act with lightning speed. He doesn’t have long before the Leviathan recovers and mounts a … Continue reading Coup-coup!

From “A poem for the Second Inauguration of Donald J. Trump”


by Joseph Charles MacKenzie, member of the Society of Scottish-American Poets: ”But one man pledged the fortune he possessed To us who cried in silence and in vain, Eschewing pleasure, wealth, foregoing rest His labors consecrated to our pain. 
And he remembered us, and looked on our dismay, The man whose word, once given, he … Continue reading From “A poem for the Second Inauguration of Donald J. Trump”

Notre Dame reopens!



.doesn’t it feel, in retrospect, like that fire in April,2019 was a harbinger of the disasters to come? Covid and the lockdowns. Trump “losing” the 2020 election. Open and widespread support for sacrifice or at least irreparable mutilation of children. Wars and rumors of wars. It has been one hell of a five years! But … Continue reading Notre Dame reopens!

The Harrowing of Hell

In the non-canonical Gospel of Nicodemus, during the 3 days between the Crucifuxion and the Resurrection, Jesus and John the Baptist go to Hell to release the souls of the blessĂšd, good people who couldn’t go to Heaven cuz they lived before Jesus’ birth. “ Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates! Behold, the King … Continue reading The Harrowing of Hell