Republican Senators slipped this nugget into the CR last night. Rigging the legal system to give $500,000 or more to each of them because someone followed the facts and looked at their phone records. That’s your money folks. nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/…

A thought provoking story about a racoon. Read "Pooky's POSH Habits". #FlashWritingAssignment experifiction.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/poo…

"Picturing Shakespeare", a culture program wrapped in mystery on PBS. Loved it! pbs.org/video/picturin…

Donald, GOP, that's not a plan, it's a handoff to interested third parties, a sell off of your constituents-- a dereliction of your duty to solve a problem. "You're on your own" option is not a plan!

A while back I posted a Very Short Story about Jenny, a little girl visiting a doctor for removal of a splinter. She was worried how much it might hurt. But advances in medicine made it virtually painless. I added a little to the story and posted it at tinyurl.com/bdefaxsz

Alligators can live up to 100 years, increasing their chances of in fact, seeing you later. #NotSorry

Freddie lived at a hard-to-reach address and Santa never visited. This year, he was determined to get Santa to his home. Read "One Dark Christmas..." a very short story: experifiction.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/one…

So much for the Lions tonight. Sorry, guys, but I can only watch you fumble the ball or get intercepted so many times. I'm out.

Yes, CBS News, by all means let's give in to the uninformed masses and put the "elite" academics and experts out to pasture so MAGA will feel even more special and listen to reason even less. That's what created the mess we're in now, doofus!

Why is everything in Twitter today a rerun of math and word games--somebody else's math and word games? Anyone being original today?

Wrote 1645 words of a short story. Dang! When the ideas come, they zing right along. And it isn't finished yet.

Finally, the United States is waking up 🚨 Representative Ted Lieu just drew a crystal clear red line, and it matters more than most people seem to realize. “If any military member, from the generals on down, participates in using force against Greenland without congressional

I'm a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight. I watched the video at least 10 times from different angles and at different speeds and waited to offer an opinion, which I still reserve the right to change if additional

The curtain of nightfall has fallen but alas, no applause was given.

"It’s up to each of us as citizens to speak out against injustice, protect our basic freedoms, and hold our government accountable." – President Barack Obama

“I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say ‘The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the f*ck they want and make sh*t up as they go along.’” — George Conway

Republicans want to decide what books you can read, what history your kids can learn, which medicines you’re allowed to take, what surgeries you can have, what gender you’re permitted to be, what sports you can play, which bathroom you can use, who you can love, and who you can

Root beer is an alcoholic beverage. It is called a beer.

RIP Catherine O'Hara, award-winning actress who played Kevin's Mom in the first two Home Alone movies, among many other brilliant roles. Can we have a hold on all film and TV mom deaths for a while? We lose so much in their passing.

I discovered Friday I have Shingles. It's affecting my right, dominant eye. That affects almost everything I do in life, making my almost everything I do right now about half as efficient. I hate typing, texting, "dialing", shaving, approaching anything from the right...