Browsing: Opinions

     Virginia flipped its gubernatorial affiliation on Nov. 2.  The state went with Republican Glenn Youngkin in an upset of incumbent Democrat Terry McAuliffe.  Across the country, in off-year elections, Republicans gained political ground.

     Election Day in Virginia was a major defeat for the Democratic Party. It could signal a much bigger disaster in 2022 if Democratic officials do not learn the right lessons and do not deliver on the promises they have made to voters.

     My Dad skated for the Minnesota Gophers hockey team after he finally got done serving “for the duration” in World War II in the Philippines.  So, of course, he was our coach as we PeeWees tried to learn to play hockey in Minnesota in the late 1950s.  As a coach, one of his favorite go-to instructions to us was, “OK, team, back to the basics!”

     Climate change and environmental destruction will prevail if money prevails as the god that national leaders (and almost all the rest of us) worship, or don’t know how not to worship.  Part of indigenous wisdom is not being under the control of this civilized force.  What would a world without money — or a world that saw and understood money differently — look like?

     The myth of redemptive violence is everywhere, a unifying force that keeps gun sales healthy and military contractor’s wealthy.  Real violence is everywhere as well, both intentional and accidental, but it’s fragmented and isolated, a sudden moment that shouldn’t have happened, needn’t happened — a human soul is ripped from her loved ones.  Such moments bring only shock and grief.

“RODGERS & ROGAN ARE JABRONIS” 

   Deputy Aaron Moore had not yet completed the police academy when he deployed to Iraq in 2003. As an enlisted member of the United States Army National Guard, Deputy Moore prepared for war, but he encountered something different. He spent much of his time on foot patrol in Ramadi, a city in Central Iraq, interacting with Iraqi citizens and ensuring their safety. He saw that many were in need, and he did what he could to give them aid, even if that just meant listening. He ultimately spent 18 months in the Middle East.

      It’s about time the U.S. Justice Department began protecting the elected school board members of this nation, whose lives are being threatened on a daily basis by neo-Nazis and other ultraconservative, know-nothing, low-IQ Fox News watching fascist numbskulls. 

     “Fresh off a win on Saturday with a global corporate tax agreement, and some progress toward restoring the nuclear accord with Iran, President Biden returned on the final day of the Group of 20 summit on Sunday facing far more difficult challenges, including pressure to take stronger action on climate change and to make concrete progress on delivering Covid vaccines to the poorest countries,” says Jim Tankersley, reporter of the New York Times.

  I’ve been writing editorial and opinion columns for most of my life. My writing longevity has endured because I’m smart enough to know to stay away from writing about “hair” and “religion”.