I never met Dr. Wouter Nolet. The 90 minute drive into the African bush, to visit Masanga Hospital, was not pleasant. My colleague, a plastic surgeon from Ireland, had arranged for the four of us to make the journey in the back of a small ambulance, as the Land Rover, owned by the Holy Spirit …
Just finished my first week of working from home, and I can report a few developments from my tiny corner of the world. First of all, as you can see from my pictures, my pets are not at all perturbed by this recent course of events. There is something to be said of the bliss …
Bob Dylan’s first new song in 8 years is about the JFK Assassination and it’s’ cultural aftermath. If anyone should know how to recreate a diaphanous poetry-slam vibe of art, politics and loss beginning at 12:30 pm on November 22, 1963 and continuing to the present, it’s Bob Dylan. He does so with pastoral delicacy …
Let’s pick a day for Grandparents Day and found it on the fact that many of us stood up for the idea of not killing Grandpa and Grandma. …and some of we’re all for it, on the outside chance it might improve our 401k situation and there was some inheritance involved. Lets pick a day …
The following communique landed near Davin Michael Stedman during our modern equivalent of a V2 blackout of London, the Coronavirus Quarantine of 2020. These words are reposted here with permission: Hey Davin, did you know that I grew up with German Rocket engineers in Huntsville, Alabama? As a kid I used to play monkey bars …
When you see the National Guard ask yourself why we had not been using that energy to solve the greatest National Security challenges of our time, 1) Education 2) Healthcare Imagine where we could be if we were a physically and mentally stronger nation. That’s not even dealing with infrastructure and how much harder it …
Those of you who read my post on visiting Shanghai last month might have noted my expressed hope that the coronavirus, which had sent my daughter stateside when her English school closed, would not follow us home. Though both of us, currently living in my home in Redding, CA, are healthy and hope to stay …
What time are we getting quarantined here in Washington? You name it, you win the first the first jar of BBQ Sauce The Staxx Brothers produce. It’s going to be delicious. And it’s about to get way more weird. People came in the shop and I asked people how they felt. They for the most …
A fitting end to the reign of Trump is that the Stock Market decides that it cannot fully recover with Trump as Fuhrer. It’s just limp till November. Like trying to pick a lock with wet cracker. America just laying their fish eyed like Melania, dreaming of Barack. Or at least a youthful Patrick Stewart. …
Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang sent out this message today: Hello, I hope that you and yours are doing great at home. I am writing this from home with my two boys; their schools sent them home because of COVID-19. Evelyn and I are able to accommodate our boys being home from school. Many families …
Tonight I am going to do what I always do. I’m going to put on my headphones that I oft cover with a turkey bag for a good swim. I’m going lace up my fake Jordans. Then I’m going to run four kilometers. I slap this sign marking Providence Hospital and then I turn around, …
Debate: Biden says we need Emergency Socialism. Bernie says we aren’t ready for this crisis because we haven’t adopted Democratic Socialism. Either way, nobody can do a god damn thing without using social services and socialism to help us in the crisis. Are you ready for a New Deal yet? How about Universal Healthcare? Are …
Trump is sneering at us all like he already had the vaccine. Just spit shaking everybody’s hands, …spit roastin’ the biggest lies he can about made up websites that unlike Obama’s are better than his by not even existing…yet. You ever look in the eye of a guy that doesn’t care who lives and who …
People be like “just stay home for two weeks and self quarantine” But that’s not how America works. That’s how Bernie Sanders’ America works. But America just wants to project that we are a livable country full of livable wages. But the truth is that a lot of people that have been talking a lot …
Which pro athletes are getting still paid and which ones are going to going to be selling off those mansions? The money gets sucked up from the lower and middle class, some of it trickles it will down. The bread, the wine, …but Romans, they have cancelled The Circus. It’s going to be a strange …
Trump is trying to lose Obama’s money this weekend. He’s on a bender, sponsored by 4Loko and The Seven Hundred Club. “If I am going to lose my stock market gains, so is the Kenyan.” This is a fever dream. I hadn’t seen the Evening News in years. I thought I was listening to Bowie’s …
As we know, the Democratic Presidential Candidate, Andrew Yang, whom I supported from his campaign’s infancy, unfortunately had to bow out of the process several weeks ago. $$ F**k Citizen’s United. https://basicincome.org/news/2020/02/united-states-andrew-yang-steps-down-from-presidential-candidacy/ Here is a great article to educate yourself about a Universal Basic Income. https://basicincome.org/news/2020/01/three-misconceptions-about-yangs-freedom-dividend/ UBI allows freedom, and that economic concept found in …
The handwashing scene, “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand…” is Act 5 Scene 1 of MacBeth. It may come up in conversation this week, if it hasn’t already. –
In times of crisis people are often driven towards the God as a concept and a belief. Lennon once sang, “God is a concept By which we measure Our pain I’ll say it again God is a concept By which we measure Our pain” Part of why Americans have parted ways with organized religion in …
When MAGA folks telling me something is a Nothing Burger, I wonder how they packed in so much treason and vice into a single patty that tastes like 100% USDA certified Neofascist bullsh☆t. Who the f☆ck would even describe something as a Nothing Burger? That is some of the weirdest most suspect mind programmed “are …
The True Socialists are on Wall Street and They’re not the Democratic Kind, by Davin Michael Stedman
As the stock market tanks we have a real opportunity to make a much more important correction to our economy. The stock market is based on the faith of Billionaires in how much money they can extract from the people of the United States while limiting their exposure to such dangers as increasing wages and …
Things you think about during the opening ceremonies of a potential Pandemic. The money. Wash your hands they say. Don’t touch your eyes they say. But every minute a cashier is handling a different person’s money. Depositing it into a register with everyone else’s money. Touching everyone’s ID. Crowds gather to a Costco to gather …
This is the most epic Primary I have ever seen. Buckle up. Last time sure we were all attacked by Russian bots and Trolls and half the Country and the Puppet in Chief denies it. But Bernie yet again entered a page in Hip Hop history. Why did Flava Flav get kicked out of Public …
So you think Biden has the African American vote. That’s cool. Maybe he’ll do a concert with a major African American act like 98 Degrees. I saw Rage and Ozomatli rocking out in protest at the Democratic Convention in the year 2000. Bernie is sharing the stage with Chuck f☆cking D and Public Enemy. This …
Front row seats at The Democratic debate last night were $1,750. Not quite Rage Against The Machine pricing. But you can bet that there won’t be any Social Democrats in the front row there either. The fix is in and it is backfiring. In other countries they can just turn off the internet. The real …
My favorite part about the one inevitable show down between Bernie and Trump, is that never before have we seen a better example in modern American times of David vs Goliath. Trump has Mother Russia, the courts, The Trolls, the Super Pacs, The Military, The Sheriffs, the RNC, a football to launch Nukes, a Billlion …
Hello East Portland: I am deeply disturbed. Just a day or two before his impeachment vote, the President appeared at the “March for Life” anti-abortion rally. (Think Religious Right). I saw a clip on tv with him talking about how much he supports the viewpoint of the pro-lifers and all life is sacred. If the …
I went back to October 2016 before America completely shat that bed, and I grabbed this photo of me reluctantly but proudly doing my duty to vote BLUE and against Donald Trump. I did so as a guy that supports Bernie then and now. I’ll have this ready when anybody talks about Bernie or Bust, …
This is still tripping out. The Beatles played Ed Sullivan Feb 9th, 1964. Bernie’s now famous photo of him resisting arrest in Chicago at a civil rights demonstration was August 1963. This dude has literally been on the same message since before Dylan first got The Beatles stoned, which August 28th 1964. For any of …
The Democratic establishment is freaking out right now because they are experiencing the problem of throwing good money after bad. Bloomberg can’t buy the votes with billion dollars. He already spent half a billion. Bezos can buy The Washington Post, but up a pay wall and commission 1000 stories about how Mayor Pete is more …