Today, the U.S. Senate caved. They passed the One Big Bullshit Bill, carrying out one of the most destructive attacks on the American people in history. It will send us deeper into a debt spiral, make us a global pariah where energy is concerned, throw millions of people into poverty, medical debt, and despair, and … More An all-out assault on America’s future
We have choices to make, to support those who we are called to support or those who have and will deny, neglect, and oppress with whatever means they have. I will not support those who destroy families by splitting them up at the border for seeking asylum or by shooting, choking, or wrongfully imprisoning their … More Some Thoughts on Vengeance: A poem against legal racial violence
Executive Mansion, Washington, August 13, 2017. Dear Madam,– I have just been notified by the findings of the Justice Department and a statement of the Attorney General that you are the mother of a daughter who joined men and women, black and white, who gloriously marched for the equality and dignity of their brothers and … More Abraham Lincoln’s consolation to Mrs. Heyer
I was appalled by the alleged “Unite the Right” gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia. What organizers claimed was an event to bring people together about white plight, was a thinly veiled threat against all who disagree with them. It didn’t take long for that veil to be pulled away and their true colors to show. Like … More In Ferguson Township, we stand for justice & love.
White supremacists have no place in the governance of our country. Get him out! Get him out! Get him out! [26 minutes in.]
The final lines of Judgment at Nuremberg rang in my head today. In the last scene, Judge Haywood (Spencer Tracy) visits Ernst Janning who he’s just sentenced to life in prison for condemning people to their deaths under the Third Reich’s murderous tyranny. It’s perhaps one of the greatest final scenes in a movie ever. … More Trump, Cruz, and Judgment at Nuremberg
Peter Walks for Democracy 