A long time ago, perhaps 36 years ago, I went to a club with my husband. It was really hot outside and I was wearing a dress that had no shoulder straps. My husband was hanging out with some friends and I was happily talking to another woman when a gang of UW frat boys …
In 1991 my wife and I were living in a townhome type place at 19th and Denny in Seattle across from a house we called the “Rathouse”. The Rathouse was home base for our Ohio expatriate gang. The Gits, 7 Year Bitch, Alcohol Funnycar and DC Beggars all rehearsed in the basement there. This was …
I wonder how the people working full time living in tents feel about our amazing American economy. We should ask them.As well as questions such as, “are you optimistic that in 2019 you will progress financially to living in a car?” Socialism is the oil in the engine of Capitalism. You can deny it, but …
Of course the walls are closing in on Trump. He is incapable of thinking 3 steps ahead. He is just reacting. He’s a rich idiot. He’s 3 steps behind and all of his enablers and water (gate) boys are flipping on him. Because Trump is a low budget criminal Billionaire. Lawyer from the worst law …
On a cool and cloudy August 26, I gave up part of my Sunday afternoon to attend a rally in protest of Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. As everyone knows, or should know, Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life. They aren’t voted for by the people, but appointed …
It dawned on me that we’ve been choking on the incinerated corpses of giant life forms that died horrific deaths. No wonder everyone had headaches. Not to be a tree hugger. Because yeah, yeah, yeah, trees need to burn; it’s the savage and brutal circle of life. Watch an Orca munch on a baby seal. …
On the hot humid Saturday of August 18 I headed downtown to Seattle’s City Hall to join others protesting a white supremacy group calling themselves the Patriot Prayer group. As I wandered up and down the block I heard chants like, NO KKK. No fascist USA. No Trump. Rows of police lined the street on …
I think the difference between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans that emerged from Africa about 40,000 years can be summed up so: Neanderthals today were at best capable of providing links to articles they read that reinforce their own basic-ness, as not quite men who live in caves. They also loooooove memes but don’t understand …
When my kids were active members with our church’s youth groups I got to know a man named Nabil as he had daughters very close in age to my sons. I learned that Nabil’s parents and grandparents owned two farms in Palestine that bore oranges, lemons, and limes. Then the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and …
I know it sucks that THEY are coming for The Showbox. But the fate was sealed years ago when we all swallowed this pill of sh_t that it was OK to drive out the Soul of our city, starting with Black folks in the Central District that gave the world f_cking Jimi Hendrix and Quincy …
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities My wife and I recently spent some time in California. I was disturbed at the human conditions in San Francisco. I wrote to the San Francisco Chronicle (below) and even though my letter to the …
On June 30, 2018 I joined one of several protests around the country against the immigration policies of one Donald J. Trump. I joined the closest one to me in Edmonds, WA. Hundreds lined four corners on Edmond’s busiest intersection (the corridor that connects the main road to with Hwy 99 and I-5). When I …
On Father’s Day in America, The Guardian (London) newspaper ran a story called, “Separation at the border: children wait in cages at South Texas warehouse.” Former First Lady Laura Bush wrote an op-ed piece the day after Father’s Day, decrying the “mass detention” of children who have been separated from their parents. https://www.twincities.com/2018/06/18/laura-bush-separating-children-from-their-parents-at-the-border-breaks-my-heart/ Mr. Orwell, …
Driving to work a few weeks ago, I was surprised to see billboards announcing a visit to my neck of the woods by Franklin Graham, son of his recently departed father Billy. An online search found the website of his Decision California tour, intending to bring the Gospel to a state which, as Graham made …
Remember when Howard Schultz encouraged his baristas to bring up racial issues with customers in 2015? Uhhhh? Remember when Howard Schultz sold The Sonics to Oklahoma City? This is not a dig on my friends that work at Starbucks. They gave me a fat check to play their headquarters and the guy that booked us …
Facebook does have a monopoly. As evidenced by how it bought out Instagram, its only threat. How it is grooming the 3rd World with Whats App. How it demolished a MySpace that was the last hope of independent musicians after the internet turned out to be the destroyer of worlds, that gave us Donald Trump …
On Saturday March 24, 2018, millions upon millions of people joined the March for Our Lives event that was happening in cities all over the country and even in other countries where participants marched in solidarity. I joined the Seattle march. We were marching in solidarity with the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School …
Yesterday, March 14, tens of thousands of school children walked out of class and marched and rallied for stricter gun laws in solidarity with students effected by the recent Parkland, Florida high school shooting which left 17 dead. This was a student led event, at least in Seattle. Adults could participate, but it had to …
Rex Tillerson said Russia is behind the nerve agent attack in England. Fired the next day. Russia hacks the RNC and doesn’t leak the goods through its front Wikileaks, and the Republican controlled Intelligence Commitee says there is no collusion. That’s the news…Today. Nothing to see here. Says lobotomized Uncle Sam, washing the shame down …
This is hard for millions of people to accept for various reasons. But this is something I have always known and have happily embraced. And it only gets confirmed each step of the way. When I moved from Central LA to Mays Pond where through some sort of Imperialism, I had to go to Junior …
You know really gives zero f_cks? Vladamir Putin. He installed his very own US President and now he just put a hit on a Spy and his daughter with a Nerve Agent in England in broad daylight. That was a message. That he is the bully, he has new Nuclear weapons we can’t stop and …
Funny (not funny) how Putin just went full Dr. EVIL and hosted a PowerPoint demonstration about how we are losing the Cold War complete with how he is ready to take out Florida like Kruschev. This is what out intelligence community knows and the people will pretend isn’t happening, because the truth is too inconvenient. …
As a Capitalist pig I have to admit a terminal cancer our economic system is that we still have gun companies after selling ourselves 300 million guns. We have enough guns to arm every baby in this country. We have enough guns for everyone, and enough ammo to till each of us 100s of times. …
The Fall of the United States from its temporary seat as the world’s greatest Superpower, can be boiled down to two simple facts, which reveals a terminal defect of the two party system. It’s like a self destruct button. The last Democratic presidents are among the most intelligent, eloquent, and well educated Presidents in the …
“What The President Said,” a new protest song by David Poe and Sister C, features voices from the Women’s March and the LAX protest. The song challenges a president who many believe is imperiling American ideals with outrageous falsehoods, divisiveness, brinkmanship and incompetence, aiming to pander to base voters before midterm elections this November and …
Only a Trump Presidency could create a political environment where MoveOn.org and leftist street demonstrators will rally to defend a former head of the FBI and a Republican. Please pause and just meditate for a moment how f_cking insane Trump has made our everyday reality. Because I am a huge fan of Robert Mueller and …
In these four high-profile cases, adults covered up sexual crimes. The Catholic Church moved priests. The Boy Scouts kept their Perversion Papers secret. Penn State preferred profits over boys. As the gymnastics’ story has already unfolded at Molestation State University against female gymnasts, there will be an expansion to female co-eds, making the travesty more …
In the wake of the latest school shooting in Kentucky, a Wild West shoot out between student and teachers is not far away. No matter what side of the political spectrum you are on, we are all living in that kind of America. Theories that having more guns will keep us safe are going to …
The Democrats are rolling out their latest weapon after the State of the Union address. Here comes Joe Kennedy Jr. part 3. He is actually the grandson of Bobby. Here are some stats. He might be worth 55 million thanks to inheritance bankrolled by his name sake, he is technically an (unoppressed) minority because he …
Where were the designated crack smoking zones and free clean pipes in the 1980s? America sure is soft on white crime. That being said, we should be tackling this issue with methods other than locking up drug users. But our prisons are full of men from the Crack War…hmmmm. Maybe the war on crack wasn’t …