May 12, 2025 Photo by Anna Lowe on Pexels.com How would you feel about the VA treating your cancer with a horse drug? Or the IRS demanding you pay your taxes in Trump meme coin? Or maybe you'll visit a national park and find the rangers selling off the land to developers, while back at… Continue reading Uncivil service
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Revolution remembered
April 15, 2025 When we celebrated the Bicentennial of our founding in 1976, I was fresh out of college, underemployed, and generally too busy to care. Now we're sliding into the 250-year Semiquincentennial (yes, that's a real word), beginning at Lexington and Concord with the anniversary of the shot heard 'round the world on April… Continue reading Revolution remembered
Lost voices of democracy
March 17, 2025 In "Youngstown," Bruce Springsteen's searing elegy for America's industrial heartland, an ex-steelworker laments that by shutting the mills, "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do." Trump and Musk have now accomplished what Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and several previous generations of dictators never could: silencing the Voice of America. The shutdown… Continue reading Lost voices of democracy
Five years on
March 5, 2025 Photo by CDC on Pexels.com So. It's been five years now. Well. That's nothing to celebrate. Almost four years ago, some of us, starting with the man then in the White House, celebrated too soon and quickly felt the anvil of another massive surge drop on our heads. That wasn't the last… Continue reading Five years on
Truth, lies, and distortions
February 26, 2025 You've probably heard that the two men who are leading us into God knows what are planning to drop in on Ft. Knox to check on our gold reserves. I'm more worried about another precious asset: words, of which far too many have been twisted, corrupted, and weaponized. It's natural for meanings… Continue reading Truth, lies, and distortions
My life in the deep state
February 5, 2025 I recently learned of the passing of a colleague from my time at the Voice of America which, if you don't know, is a government-funded international broadcaster. It began with radio news in World War II and today appears all over the world on digital, TV, and radio platforms in nearly 50… Continue reading My life in the deep state