When a life ends, those who remain deal with the body. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Mark Evely, Wayne State University Upwards of 2.8 million people die every year in the United States. As a funeral director who heads a university mortuary science program, I can tell you that while each individual’s life experiences are unique, what happens to a … [Read more...] about When someone dies, what happens to the body?
Satire: Barr’s 6 Months a Slave
By Laurie Baron, Ph.D SAN DIEGO — If Attorney General Bill Barr ever writes his autobiography, it might go something like this: “I was born a free man in 1950 and have lived my life as one in a Washington suburb located in Virginia until March 2020. Then the Democrat slave master Ralph Northam decreed that I was a covid captive to be confined in my house. My spacious home … [Read more...] about Satire: Barr’s 6 Months a Slave
‘Astounding’: Trump Officials Reportedly Bypassed CDC Scientists to Publish ‘Dangerous’ Covid-19 Testing Guidelines
"Trump's hacks just sidestepped the CDC entirely and shamelessly wrote their own politically-motivated testing guidelines and published them under the agency's imprimatur." by Jake Johnson Common Dreams Trump administration officials at the Department of Health and Human Services reportedly bypassed career government scientists and authored the significantly relaxed … [Read more...] about ‘Astounding’: Trump Officials Reportedly Bypassed CDC Scientists to Publish ‘Dangerous’ Covid-19 Testing Guidelines
A race to save our democracy
At last! Like a poli-sci superhero rushing in to save America’s imperiled democracy from an Election Day doomsday, the quiet-spoken former U.S. intelligence chief and conservative Indiana senator Dan Coats just gifted us with the presidential leadership we so desperately needed.Coats not only shattered the shameful silence of fellow Republicans who are afraid to oppose … [Read more...] about A race to save our democracy
The Electoral College Game – Game Over? Not by a Long Shot
Alright, let’s figure out where we are. As you may remember, after analyzing the Little States (under 6 Electoral College Votes), the decided Big States (Texas, California and New York) and those that have voted the same way for years among the rest, before the true Battleground States, the nearly inevitable score before the campaigning even begins, has the Democrats up by 11 … [Read more...] about The Electoral College Game – Game Over? Not by a Long Shot
Something Lurks Beneath ‘The Devil All the Time’ But Be Warned
What happens when you pack in a crew of well-known celebrities who have been a part of the Marvel franchise, IT, a slew of independent films, Harry Potter, and other well-known properties? Well, I suppose you get something like The Devil All the Time, a tale of extreme faith, violence, and murder in the backwoods of the South. The Devil All the Time begins with Willard … [Read more...] about Something Lurks Beneath ‘The Devil All the Time’ But Be Warned
‘It will destroy our country’: Trump targets school curriculums that aim to teach truth about slavery
President Donald Trump painted a grim and divisive portrait of the state of American education on Thursday, claiming that anything from elementary schools to colleges are being overrun by “radical” teachers bent on destroying “our children” with “Marxist doctrines.”The president was talking about an educational framework known as critical race theory, which holds that the … [Read more...] about ‘It will destroy our country’: Trump targets school curriculums that aim to teach truth about slavery
Former Pence aide will vote for Biden because of Trump’s ‘flat out disregard for human life’ during pandemic (VIDEO)
A senior adviser on the White House coronavirus task force who left the White House in August says she plans to vote for Vice President Joe Biden in November due to President Donald Trump's "flat out disregard for human life" during the pandemic. And, in a new ad for Republican Voters Against Trump, Olivia Troye, who worked for Homeland Security, says Trump said a saving … [Read more...] about Former Pence aide will vote for Biden because of Trump’s ‘flat out disregard for human life’ during pandemic (VIDEO)
IF STALIN AND FORREST GUMP HAD A BABY
“Of course, I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was.” - Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, 1898 All that is left standing now is a Government of Goodfellas led by the porridge-faced miscreant, Donald Trump. At what point does a nation stop working if, piece-by-piece, it is being dismantled? If Donald Trump wins in … [Read more...] about IF STALIN AND FORREST GUMP HAD A BABY
HE BLINDED ME WITH STUPID (Cartoon, Column and Video)
Donald Trump is not a person who relies on facts. And a person who doesn’t rely on facts typically doesn’t believe in science. A humble person will admit to what they don’t know and listen to experts. Donald Trump will tell people who have spent their entire lives studying a subject, and without having any knowledge of it himself, tell them they’re wrong. Donald Trump is not a … [Read more...] about HE BLINDED ME WITH STUPID (Cartoon, Column and Video)
’PLEASE STOP, SIR’: TRUMP REBUKED BY PHILLY VOTER
Did anyone watch Don the Con’s Comedy Hour on Tuesday night? Granted, it wasn’t fun being soaked to the bone by his fire hose of falsehoods, but the pleasure President Trump’s Philadelphia “town hall” was seeing him rebuked by a real citizen. A black woman with a serious health condition. “Mr. President,” said a Philadelphian named Alycee Block, “I was born with a disease … [Read more...] about ’PLEASE STOP, SIR’: TRUMP REBUKED BY PHILLY VOTER
The Electoral College Game – Ohio
So, what the heck happened in Ohio? After years of being a very tight, bell-weather State, in 2016, Trump crafted a commanding victory in Ohio, winning by a whopping 8%, or 447,000 votes. Ohio has voted for the winner in every presidential election since 1964, so it is the very definition of a swing state. JFK was the last president to lose Ohio and win. So, what about … [Read more...] about The Electoral College Game – Ohio
Trump Does Putin’s Bidding
From the moment Donald Trump attained the presidency, he has gone out of his way to take actions that will benefit Putin and Russia. Their relationship came out in the open during the campaign in 2016 when Trump asked Russia to find Hillary’s missing emails, though the connection probably existed for some time before that. During Trump’s term in office, the bonds between the … [Read more...] about Trump Does Putin’s Bidding
Hurricanes are so many that UN is running out of names
Even as stormy Trump ravishes America, real hurricanes are multiplying so quickly that the usual list of names is reaching exhaustion and the Greek alphabet will be used for only the second time on record. This delicious morsel comes from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations agency specializing in almost everything involving weather, climate and … [Read more...] about Hurricanes are so many that UN is running out of names
‘Tyrannical and Un-American’: ACLU Rebukes Barr for Urging Sedition Charges Against Protesters
"Treating protest as a form of sedition won't hold up in court," said the ACLU. "But that is clearly not the point here." By Brett Williams Common Dreams Attorney General William Barr drew stinging rebuke from legal experts and civil liberties advocates including the ACLU Wednesday after he told federal prosecutors to more aggressively charge some protesters with … [Read more...] about ‘Tyrannical and Un-American’: ACLU Rebukes Barr for Urging Sedition Charges Against Protesters
Trump’s Contempt for the Military – Election Year Dangers (UPDATED)
UPDATE: In the interest of “full disclosure,” (or presenting all sides of the issue) we must make the following update. On Sept 14, a Fox News Flash top headline announced that – even after The Atlantic revelations -- 235 retired general and flag officers signed a letter supporting President Trump. Part of the letter states: As senior leaders of America’s … [Read more...] about Trump’s Contempt for the Military – Election Year Dangers (UPDATED)
The Electoral College Game – Wisconsin
I’m saving Ohio for last. Trump won Wisconsin by very slim margins, 0.7% and less than 23,000 votes over 2.8 million votes cast. In 2012, Obama won Wisconsin by 4.7%, which was over 205,000 votes. To win by 23,000 votes, Trump managed a swing of over 225,000 votes. In 2008, on a turnout of over 3 million votes, Obama won Wisconsin by 12%, and over 400,000 votes. Less … [Read more...] about The Electoral College Game – Wisconsin
Trump posts faked video of Biden playing anti-police song
Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump, who is trying to persuade voters that his challenger Joe Biden will encourage violent crime, retweeted a faked video Wednesday purporting to show the Democrat playing a crudely worded anti-police rap song.In the video, which Twitter later marked as "manipulated media," Biden stands at a podium, takes out his cell phone and tells the … [Read more...] about Trump posts faked video of Biden playing anti-police song
When I almost died: My days battling coronavirus and what I remember the most
CHICAGO — Last week, when I read my own obituary, I remembered the first time I almost died. It was a cold December morning in 1963 when I fell through and under the ice covering the south edge of the Lincoln Park lagoon and was rescued by my younger brother Mark and our friend Ty Bauler and we made it home and life went on.The next time I almost died was when I was reporting a … [Read more...] about When I almost died: My days battling coronavirus and what I remember the most
Unmatched heat is fueling record-breaking wildfires, UN agency confirms
The entire northern hemisphere across parts of the western contiguous U.S., Europe, north-central Russia and southeastern China had its hottest summer on record this year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said. The heat is contributing to a record-breaking destructive 2020 fire season on the west coast during the warmest August on record, it confirmed citing the … [Read more...] about Unmatched heat is fueling record-breaking wildfires, UN agency confirms