“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men hardly are created equal,” wrote the founders of this country. They continued: “Those of inherent privilege are endowed by their creator with special status; the rest can soak.” So reads the Declaration of Hierarchy, the founding document that launched a nation conceived in ideological apartheid…
For the one-time reality-show guy, things just got real. Real except for any trustworthy explanation or justification about what happens or what he directs our military to do in the war into which he has enlisted all of us. As anyone with ears should know, truth is not what this president does. Millions of Americans…
It says everything about the Little Dictator’s war on brown people that ICE began its June 6 raids in Los Angeles at a Home Depot. Just the place to find rapists, murderers and gang-bangers: Aisle 12 – between the yard trimmers and fertilizer spreaders. Safe we are, therefore, from workers who that day were arming…
Having grown up just past the dawn of the nuclear age, I remember having silly romantic notions as a child about the scariest thing imaginable: Fall-out shelters. A cozy concrete hang-out: just enough room for our family of five – our favorite snacks on hand, me with a stack of comic books, curled up away…
My wife has a way of measuring excess that’s particular to her passion. At any obscene outlay, she’ll wonder: “How many animal shelters would that build?” Let’s say your government shells out $45 million for a military parade on the birthday of a war hero-denigrating, draft-eluding president. A video I saw says it takes about…