It is instructive that when you consult Wikipedia for the definition of the word “scope” you are informed that it refers to “the extent of the area or subject matter that something deals with or to which it is relevant; the opportunity or possibility to... Continue
Letter From The Editor
There are at least 200 words or terms in a list compiled by the New York Times, and first published in March, that are being purged from the official vocabularies of federal agencies at the behest of President Trump and his lockstep, quavering minions. Included... Continue
Me too Yes, I know. If you are by now sick and tired of reading the Sun’s alarming reportage, opinions, rants and tired reminders about the plan to build a thousand-home subdivision in the middle of the former Sonoma Developmental Center, on the edge of... Continue
By David Bolling Among the compelling excuses espoused by American policy makers and warmongers for the extraordinary cost in lives, treasure and domestic tranquility invested in the Vietnam War, was the alarm frequently sounded by conservative politicians and from Christian pulpits that “losing” Vietnam would... Continue
By David Bolling Muhammad Ali and I had only two things in common. We both thought he was The Greatest, and we both refused to go fight in Vietnam. Ali’s refusal in 1967 led to a guilty conviction for draft evasion that was later overturned... Continue
Zombies? Sometimes you just gotta ask. Drama? Or Documentary? Do the Dead really come back to Life? (Not talking about you, Jesus). Living Dead. What a concept. Living humans with consciousness but no souls? Dead humans imbued with scientific training and a hunger for human flesh?... Continue
When Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on George Floyd’s neck for nine and-a-half minutes in 2020, while Floyd gradually died from asphyxiation – plainly gasping that he couldn’t breathe – America felt a modest seismic shift in its relationship with its own racial history.... Continue
At the most very basic level, say, down on your hands and knees and squinting through the cosmic mouse hole at Mar-a-Lago, or down a dark tunnel into the kaleidoscope of painfully pulsing lights that surround the clown circus that is the Trump presidency, it’s... Continue
The TikToc Group Chat invitation came from “SecDef-PistolPete,” and it was labeled, “PrinsCom ONLY - Highly Confidential and Private. Don’t Share This With AWINOOU (Anyone Who Is Not One Of Us). I looked at the rest of the names on the invitation. There was KN-Rolex... Continue
On October 10, 2008, during the closing days of a presidential campaign that was slipping away from him, John McCain was addressing a town hall meeting in Lakeville, Minnesota when a middle-aged woman told him she was scared of Barack Obama because, “he’s an Arab.”... Continue