Democratic Conversation

Hurricane Katrina is in the news again. As an anniversary, that is. The anniversary also notoriously celebrates the fact that the federal government, disaster agencies, and insurance companies have yet to do all that much for the destroyed areas, the city, or the people who have lost everything. I have nothing but scorn for the […]

I am an artist by temperament and intellect; I look for insight in the beauty and the grotesque as beauty as ways to explore, help define, and enjoy the human comedy. This is not so difficult, as I need only look around with ears, if not eyes, open to the environment. I came to political […]

Vice President Dick Cheney now thinks he’s part of the Congress, after seven years wagging his (and others’) tail as semi-head of the executive branch. One must admit, he has conviction. Now, as a comic would introduce, all we need do is get a prosecutor to try him for his crimes. Joking aside, and America […]

Faith & values issues have created in American politics a smokescreen to what the country requires: smart talk on realistic problems that must be answered correctly to correct living-wage job loss, global warming, Muslim extremist murderers, and changing the country from oil dependency to renewable energy independence.
Yet this is the political season (as if there […]

The Democratic presidential hopefuls staged their first debate, and it was not Thursday Night at the Fights. It seems they want to present a more-or-less amicable style to political campaigning against which the American voters can see a stable Democratic Party that has differences, but is not fractious to the point where people say “these […]