Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
For some of us who have witnessed the blatant [hypocrisy…duplicity…perfidy…betrayal…fraud] over the last 45 years, it is hard to believe that some people still cling to the illusion that the GOP is the moral party. Immorality and stupidity happen to every political party and every person. No one is perfect. The real issue is what…
This is a video about the Rebel Who Measured America: George Hume, the Jacobite Exile Who Taught George Washington to Survey. In 1716, a 17-year-old Scottish aristocrat sat in a London prison, sentenced to die for treason. Instead, Britain shipped him to Virginia as convict labor — and accidentally exported a founder. This is the…
Just when we thought President 47’s madness and criminality couldn’t get worse…they do. As the Fourth of July approaches, I have a confession to make. As much as I love the America I grew up in, it is getting harder to love a country with a sizeable number of Americans who support the growth of…
I didn’t create the following video, but it tells it like it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50fyBPsQdL8
Has Trump’s MAGA taken his followers and all of America into an era of madness? Is America REALLY celebrating a beautiful Sunday in a supposedly Christian country with a human cage match on the grounds of our nation’s White House? Has America devolved to become so un-Christian, unpatriotic. and disenchanted that blood sports, celebrated on…
The following video uses Trump’s “weave” technique of jumping from one topic or context to another. The underlying issue is the scourge of broken promises and dishonesty that cuts across American politics and culture. https://youtu.be/S-nt7ai27dA
The local Utah Fox Television (Fox10) reports that the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, has declassified Mormons from the ranks of Christians, and they now sit in a category outside Christianity. He said he made this decision to help military chaplains allocate their resources more effectively. The Mormons in Utah are not very happy with…
We live in strange times. Many of the guardians of religious orthodoxy defend the profane and irreligious. Most of America’s founding fathers wisely guided politics away from religion. However, today many are trying to combine and weld politics and religion. The following video examines the MAGA connection to the Evangelicals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO-XDzT2jaU&t=37s
This video focuses on the disconnect between the sacred and the profane. How and why do people who call themselves religious vote for an objectively irreligious leader? Are they in a cult? Do they cynically hold their noses, so their political or cultural beliefs trump other beliefs? Do they REALLY believe that President 47 is…
The following is a satirical video based on a short poem about the Orange King and his recent actions. https://youtu.be/YHMigV3sFPY