A Writer’s Blog

  • Everyone You Ever Wanted to Know About Donald Trump But Were Afraid to Ask

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Sidney Blumenthal, an advisor in the Clinton administration, wrote a brilliant and well-resourced article for the London Review of Books about the history of the Trump family and about the personal anxieties of Donald Trump, as expressed in his own words. His statements are documented. It may be… Read more

  • What have those godless anti-American libtards done for me anyway?

    Originally posted on GFBrandenburg's Blog: (Copied from elsewhere; author unknown but reprinted with thanks to whoever it was. Also thanks to my friend Kathryn Wadsworth who put this out on FB!) A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN AMERICAN Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare… Read more

  • The Ransomware that Took Out My Desktop

    Ransomware is a type of malware that prevents or limits users from accessing their system, either by locking the system’s screen or by locking the users’ files unless a ransom is paid. Read more

  • Trump Administration Plans to Eliminate Government Support for Arts, Humanities, Public Television

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: The Trump administration proves what some of us long feared and suspected: the crackpot fringe of the right wants to dumb down the populace by eliminating funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. These Yahoos… Read more

  • The Inner Musings of Steve Bannon By James W. Gaynor In fourth grade no one Would sit next to me at lunch. Not a lot has changed. According to Vlad Bloody Marys require Fresh human plasma. POTUS is nuts and Armageddon is taking More time than I thought. Nobody knows […] via To Russia, With Love: Read more

  • The Story Trump Hopes to Bury–Or Has Already Buried

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Now that Trump controls the FBI, the CIA, and the Attorney General, there is one story he wants you to forget about. Before the election we learned that the intelligence agencies agreed that the Russian government interfered in our election to benefit Trump. “That this story is constantly… Read more