Pondering Domestic Terror in Colorado Springs
We can add healthcare facility to the list of places Coloradoans have now been terrorized.We can now add theology to the laundry list of reasons these home-grown (domestic) terrorist have used for...
View ArticleLegos, Tinker Toys and Trains
I read in the Denver Post that the folks who were snookered into buying overpriced condos and or paying exorbitant rents for puny apartments down along the railroad tracks are “concerned” that the...
View ArticleGOP is FUBAR
It’s OK to sell guns to people who are suspected of consorting with terrorist and whom are banned from flying in American air space, but it’s NOT OK to study violence involving firearms.That is FUBAR.
View ArticleSnowy Day Ruminations on Scalia, Trump & the Paris Follies
Scalia…? Someone needs to inform Justice Scalia that the University of Texas is NOT a hot bed of intellectual stimulation. It’s your basic common, ordinary, run of the mill American university with a...
View Article2016 Reading Challenge
I have been challenged to read a number of books from different categories during 2016.It’s an interesting challenge, BUT it includes reading books from categories I find B-O-R-I-N-G. As someone who...
View ArticleWasserman-Schultz OUT! Bennet OUT! & NO to aboriginal claims of scared lands.
I’ve recently been persuaded that signing online petitions means signing on to a LOT MORE e-mails from people wanting contributions for This, That and THE Other.I get too many e-mails already from...
View Article2016 Reading Project UPDATE
Checking off two books for 2016The first — The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson.The second — David and the Phoenix by Edward OrmondroydThe Cold Dish is likely to be the first in a long list of Longmire...
View ArticleSign me up -- Amend to End Corporate Anthropormophism
Dear Daily Kos:Sign me up!Put my name on the list.Tell the world that the Absurd Artist is a rabid supporter of amending the constitution to spell out the fact that “We the People...” DOES NOT include...
View ArticleColoradoans for Bernie NEED to DO MORE
Bernie Sanders carried was the clear choice of Colorado Democrats who turned out in record numbers on Super Tuesday.Now the Democratic Party Leadership wants to dismiss the people’s choice and protect...
View ArticleUs Campaign Exposes Colo Dems Hypocrisy.
The Us Campaign came to Denver tonight (3/7) to spread the word and to raise funds for Morgan Carroll. It did both.It also exposed the hypocrisy of two of Colorado’s Democratic Party Stalwarts:...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Contributions in Colorado's 6th Congressional District
The first is a short story of a good candidate who has worked hard on behalf of the residents of the 6th Congressional District – State Senator Morgan Carroll.The second is a sordid tale of allegations...
View ArticleFeeling BURNED
The pundits said such a beast would never survive, much less thrive in 2016.They predicted time and time again that such a beast would perish, most certainly of self-inflicted wounds.How has this beast...
View ArticleGo with the flow... Or my Enthusiasm
My country RIGHT or WRONG:LOVE it or LEAVE it.My Party GOOD or BAD:VOTE BLUE No matter who! No matter what!No matter that the WHO: Does not share my convictions!Inspires NO VISION of what SHOULD...
View ArticleOde to a Dumas
The stars ain’t so big and bright tonight Deep in the heart of TexASSCuz a Damn New York Yankee dun whipped their native-sonTexASS Ted Cruzer.
View ArticleI was CENSORED by The KOS
George Bernard Shaw said: “The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.”I mistakenly believed that The Daily KOS was a place for the expression of “progressive” ideas and values....
View ArticleCO 6th District Needs You to Tell DKos -- Endorse Morgan Carroll NOW!
The time has come (passed actually) for Colorado Daily Kos readers and writers to start lobbying the powers here at the Daily Kos to endorse State Sen. Morgan Carroll in her bid to remove one of...
View ArticleBlack Friday Shopping
What a deal from Alibaba!Buy one and you can contribute to a conflict of interest and possibly enslave a nation, not to mention that your purchase will help make a crack in the foundations of...
View ArticleAdvice from Seneca
“Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca
View ArticleMemo from Burke to US Congress
What can we do?We can resist. Each and everyday in some simple way, we must resist. We can do something. We can take some small act of resistance. If we persevere each day, every day, acting in some...
View ArticleA Sad Part of the Story of understanding Trumplandia
My thanks to whomever recovered this bit of LBJ wisdom which can help us understand a key element of how a pussy-grabber is so close to becoming Putin’s pussy-grabbing puppet.But we must keep in mind...
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