tl;dr!? This is a post about timed hand-washing to the tune of ‘Happy Birthday,’ Colin Kaepernick took a knee to the current national anthem which Whitney Houston performed at the start of a football game, and the trial of Derek...
Read MoreBlog Posts It’s not hard to come up with blog post ideas. I’m an information junkie’s information junkie. Data and the pursuit of information, always more information, it’s my drug. And, like a drug, a hit of...
Read More” From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” -Prince, song lyrics Love, album 3121, or – Luke 6:45, Bible, pick your cite tl;dr? From the black hole of his heart, the potty mouth of Trump speaks. Where...
Read MoreGeneral Election Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Vote. Vote. Vote. (Actually vote once and only once, but VOTE!) Wisconsin Residents: Information at MyVote Wisconsin. A calendar check tells me that while I’ve been off not...
Read MoreThis post assumes the reader lives in the geographic region of the United States of America labeled and organized as ‘Wisconsin.’ The 2018 Wisconsin Primary Election day is Tuesday, August 14, 2018. If you live in...
Read MoreOr words matter. The Prescedense: We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a...
Read MoreProtesting. While reading this op-ed on “Why do whites oppose the NFL protests?”, I’m reminded of the scene in Arrested Development where Lindsay is herded into exercising her 1st Amendment Rights in the Free...
Read MoreAh so! Here I am circling up to my first year of Viva blogging and Happy Birthday! Or something-something and given the events of the last three weeks — I mean, doesn’t the SOTU address when the Prescedense...
Read MoreThis post is not about the flag. This post is not about the anthem which is unsingable by amateurs and professionals with limited vocal range. Also, how can this be our national anthem when it contains obscure racist references...
Read MoreAlmost any day now, President Trump will declare a national opioid epidemic. Or not. I’d like to take a moment to reflect on Obama breaking into an amazing spontaneous cover of “Amazing Graze” at the funeral of...
Read MoreJuly 10, 2015, the police dashcam video of Sandra Bland’s arrest. (After an exchange with another driver, the action starts at 1:20 mark followed by several minutes of inaction. Return to exchange with police at 8:30 mark,...
Read MoreI’m visiting video documents of James Baldwin to further my knowledge of systemic racism – what was identified in my youth, what has not changed, what it is like to reside in a country that would rather you were somewhere or...
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