Mirrors can be useful things if used objectively, but the truth is frequently uglier than we care to bear. A reflection of sorts: Who we’ve become politically, perhaps who we’ve always been, is an all too accurate example. The voting dead used to be a reliable Democratic Party constituency. They…

It’s a Saturday morning in May, 2023. The first seven days did not bring the political crisis envisioned in Charles W. Bailey II and Fletcher Knebel’s 1962 story, Seven Days in May. Those were a wasted seven days anyway, lesser evil triumphed there, or perhaps it was greater evil. It’s…

The corporate media is in hyperbolic, hysterical meltdown. The thoroughly unpleasant Mr. Trump has rejected their narratives and continues to express his beliefs, whether all too accurate or deluded, on one of their own platforms, the very much discredited and disdained CNN. But, the corporate media, its supporters in the…

Charles and I are of an age, albeit with drastically different life experiences. He has a warm spot in my heart, despite my leftist, democratic socialist political tendencies. He visited my alma mater in Charleston, the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, on two occasions a half century apart…

Supercilious Sally is a proud member of the “woke” generation; those morally enlightened and superior intellectuals so willing to sacrifice their time to show others just how evil and mean spirited they are. In honor of her non-white brethren, she spends inordinate amounts of time in tanning parlors, and wears…

Former president Donald Trump has been indicted by a politicized Manhattan grand jury handpicked by New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg for misclassifying a purported political expense, a settlement payment to a porn star, as a business and legal expense, while former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign…

For erudite and knowledgeable conservative Republicans of the populist rather than traditionalist bent, it must be shocking to have to admit that Hugo Chavez was dead on with respect to his New Latin American Constitutionalism, a political philosophy premised on the hypotheses that elite control over the judiciary, the media…

The Political Fallacy of Right versus Left The left-right dichotomy in the political spectrum is greatly exaggerated and manipulated in order to (through the divide and conquer strategy made famous by the British in foreign affairs) keep the most selfish among us in perpetual power. The infinitesimally tiny billionaire class…

The concept of “sport” involves two principal roles, one is participatory: a physical activity to develop and improve physical skills, sometimes in a competitive fashion, often with health benefits related to attaining physical optimization. But it also has a non-participatory entertainment aspect, one geared to spectators in general but more…