An Open Letter to the World

Dear World, Hey. It's us, America. Looks like we really stepped in it this time, way worse than when we fucked up Iraq. And the vast majority of us are sooooooo sorry. We've always been a bit hard to handle. In our infancy we were actually pretty brutal, breaking lots of nice things on our …

Collaborators or Closet Allies: Boycotts in the Trump Era

If you pay attention these sorts of things, social media is calling for people to boycott some businesses whose leadership may have some sort of connection to the Trump administration. While the call to boycott isn't unique to our current times, it is my opinion that  too often in today's world of instant (and often …

Trump Week One: A Whirlwind In Motion

(This article is opinion, based on actual events. I offer no standard sourcing in this post, as you can easily find verifications online to the events relayed.) The speed at which Donald Trump is proving to be a destroyer of convention and a tyrant against modern democracy has been breathtaking in his first full week …

GOP Hypocrisy and DEM Invisibility

(This article has real facts AND qualified opinions.) Still not even a full week into the Trump presidency and we're being shown the full hypocrisy of the GOP is striking colors. We're also feeling a collective absence of real dissent from nationally elected Democrats. After spending years decrying the "imperialistic" executive orders of the Obama …

A GOP Option for the ACA (aka What some Republicans think is a “replacement option” for Obamacare)

For pretty much forever, the Republican notion of health care for American's has been "every man (woman, child) for themselves." This attitude goes back the the creation of Medicare and Medicaid and continued throughout the Obama presidency and their opposition to his hallmark healthcare plan the Affordable Care Act.  Since it passed with little to …

What The Women’s March Means To Me

If you’ve ever been on a team of any kind you could probably relate to the international phenomenon that was yesterday’s Women’s March. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been on a winning team or a losing team either, because those who came out to march and those who supported them in spirit are today feeling …

Trump Inaugural Address- Remember What He Said

In case you missed it, or perhaps because you missed it by choice, Donald Trump was sworn in today as America's 45th president. Like it or not, reality is what it is. (Remember- no FAKE NEWS here!) When reading his inaugural address afterwards, so many things struck me as unusual, yet rhetoric being what it is, …