Part Two (It helps if you’ve read Part One.) A quick recap of Part I. The Disney Corporation is shooting a live-action The Little Mermaid, and in a cowardly capitulation to the wicked “Woke-ists,” the new mermaid is being portrayed by a black actress. There are many who are not amused. SHE’S BLACK! Disney is deliberately stirring up controversy…

Yep, YOUR Free Speech Americans absolutely revere the First Amendment to the Constitution, or at least what they believe they know about it. Just for reference, here it is: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of…

AKA, “Did You See That?” — White people like to insist that they are not “racist” because they personally do not engage in racist acts. They insist on relegating racism to the past, thus absolving themselves of present responsibility, and they deny their inherent privilege because that would confirm that there is, in fact, a “system”…

We Deny, we Lie, we Die Summer 2023 has told us to stop denying Global Warming Dreamstime In July 1995, the country’s Midwest, which is already uncomfortable in the Summer, became even more so. For four deadly days, average heat in the Midwest hovered near 100 degrees F. In Chicago, Illinois, an urban heat island, temperatures reached an unsufferable 104 degrees, and it felt much hotter. …

(It’s not what you think it is! Image from “Neptune’s Daughter” (Yes, it really is a young “Mr. Roark.”) “Baby, it’s Cold Outside” is an evergreen seasonal favorite, and deservedly so. It’s a standard on holidays albums, and every great, and not-so-great, singer has recorded it. Sometime during the “Me…

(Warning: I name names) — I was first introduced to Medium sometime before COVID, when a fellow writing workshop attendee mentioned “getting that little deposit from Medium every month.” Anything that gives me a little deposit every month, other than a sperm bank or an STD, is a go for me. I asked her about…

(Please read to the end of my rant before you send the hate mail.) Are you disturbed because I won’t say “Jewish Lives Matter?” Am I anti-Semitic, or worse? I’m making a point. Palestinian lives matter. Black lives matter. Jewish lives matter. The names and identities of people we don’t know matter. I’m not playing a psychological game where I try to make you…

Some say that Eisenhower WAS the first black president. Look up a picture of his mother, Ida Stover, on line.

Discovery Means Finding out. What will we Learn Tomorrow? Discovery may bring Joy, or Discovery may bring Sorrow. Some municipalities and states have already adopted Indigenous Peoples’ Day as an alternative to Columbus Day. Others have not (yet.) Some people are grateful that the powers-that-be have recognized that Columbus and…