12/30/05  Sorry For the Late Responses
In spite of what it looks like, your submissions don't get sucked into a black hole. I read them. Now I'll use this rather lengthy essay to respond to some of them, or at least to some of the ideas.

12/4/05  Well They Started It!
It’s a sad day in the history of this nation when such a grandiosely depraved group of people should be so fiercely protected by those whom that very depravity serves to cripple.

12/30/05  A Letter That I Sent to the White House on a Whim
...did you know that much of California rests on a fault line?

12/16/05   Representative Ellen Tauscher – The New Neocon - A Response to a Responder
...I’m no brain surgeon and it doesn’t take one to see the logic of my argument and the complete vacancy in the arguments that keep morphing, including Tauscher’s politalk.

12/16/05   Civiliaztion has Killed Civility
“One nation under…indivisible”.
That statement, or partial statement, depending upon how one looks at it, is one example of the American divide.

12/16/05  Representative Ellen Tauscher – The New Neocon
I wrote to Representative Ellen Tauscher some time ago...I was disappointed with her response...

12/16/05  Priority Number One
In this horrifically polarized nation of ours, there is indeed one thing that “liberals” and “conservatives”...would benefit from equally and that’s the banishment of the Electoral College.

11/25/05  so, I'm an idiot....
just thought I'd share a little outrage with you.

11/24/05  News Update
Once again, the “liberal” media boosts blind patriotism by depicting “them” as discharging their weaponry indiscriminately, implying that the “allied troops” are careful not to maim or kill anyone who isn’t part of the enemy “insurgency”.

11/23/05  Elementary School Bragging
What the hell are we doing in Iraq! What did they ever do to us!
They had no WMD!
They had nothing to do with 9/11!
This is historical revisionism!

11/20/05  A Misdirected Apology
“Our government would never do that.”
Never, indeed.

11/7/05  Telephone Abuse Update
The only politician that I know of that was more secretive and detached than Bush (or Bush’s character), yet garnered the same kind of “obedience” is “Big Brother” in Orwell’s “1984”.

11/6/05  True Passion
...don’t we wish that more Americans, true Americans, not flag draped, self-anointed “earthly representatives of God”, would feel and express this kind of passion.

11/4/05  This is not Necessarily Cheerful News
...a lot of us aren’t particularly overjoyed that enough people have finally awakened since November of 2000 to help administer Extreme Unction to The Regime.

11/4/05  Another Quick Reality Check
If you’re a soldier who is fighting in Iraq, how would you feel if you knew that 25% of your countrymen...felt that it would be acceptable for you to be killed?

10/25/05  The Loyal Opposition
Why can’t we see that the Democratic Party has made it very clear that it doesn’t represent a progressive platform? Why can’t we see that the Democratic Party is just another arm of The Corporacracy, the real political party which sits atop the government of not only the former United States of America, but most of the world?

10/18/05  Iraq and the Laws of War
Stephen Neitzke, founder of The Direct Democracy League,reminds us of why The Regime's invasion of Iraq is illegal. Neitzke doesn't stop there. He sites US federal law, as well as internation law, to tell us how that atrocious act was, and still is, illegal.

10/5/05  An Email Message I Sent to Senator Barbara Boxer
Boxer’s made herself a target of the slime machine with her “extreme” views on society. At present, she seems to be just about the only person with national recognition that may put truth before self-promotion.

9/30/05  Old/New Concept
Ever since I was 18, the first year that Eugene McCarthy became an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, I’ve been struggling to find a political party with whom my conscience would allow me to register.