A Writer’s Blog

  • Vouchers are a disaster for students

    Originally posted on GFBrandenburg's Blog: It’ll be a few more days for the final election results to be tallied nationwide, but it seems clear that with midterm wins by voucher supporters in places like?Oklahoma,?Texas?and even Pennsylvania—where even the Democratic gubernatorial victor is?on record?in cautious favor—voucher opponents are going to have to keep working hard to… Read more

  • The Scourge of the Internet: Political Panhandlers

    This is a rant about political panhandlers sending out emails asking for donations. When I was still a child, I remember my dad’s reason for not voting. He said, “All politicians are liars and crooks and can’t be trusted.” But as soon as I was old enough, I voted anyway. Because even if all politicians… Read more

  • Is this an Indie Troll or a Russian, Iranian or North Korean Hacker trying to trick me with a Trojan Horse?

    A few weeks ago, two e-mail alerts landed in my Gmail inbox telling me new comments had been submitted to two of my four blogs. This isn’t anything new. My four blogs have had more than one million views over the years, and I get e-mail alerts like these two all the time. Once I… Read more

  • The trail that may lead to Traitor Trump’s Alleged Guilt

    I think there is interesting circumstantial evidence that may offer proof that Traitor Trump’s theft of classified documents has led to the mysterious deaths of 7 (or more) Russian oligarchs that may have been assets working for the CIA. ONE: Trump left the White House in January 2021, with the stolen classified documents. TWO: Several… Read more

  • Mom in Texas Shuts Down Extremists and Joins the Honor Roll

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: The superintendent of schools in Granbury, Texas, made clear that he didn’t want any books about LGBT characters or LGBT issues in the school library. He agreed with the angry conservatives who showed up at school board meetings to demand book-banning. Superintendent Jeremy Glenn has previously emphasized to the… Read more

  • The Infected Republican Party

    I’ve been asking myself for several years if insanity is contagious like a bacterial or virus infection (COVID, Polio, HIV, et al), so I decided to find out. And, here’s what I learned today. “Recent studies in the medical literature conclude that mental health may be highly contagious, much like infectious diseases.” – National Library of… Read more