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Imagine we’re playing a baseball game, and I’ve just hit a single (as unlikely as that may be.) Taking a big lead off first, I decide to try to steal second base. I take off for …

In one of history’s weirder coincidences, two people who were to have a major impact on the world we’re living in right now were born on the very same day, thousands of miles apart and under vastly different circumstances. The …

Note: This is a long post, but we think you’ll find the information more than worthwhile, as well as being an entertaining read. We hope you’ll agree. Much of the information is taken from the websites of Frances Perkins, …

Look, Trump is gonna be bad – real bad. Just how bad is anybody’s guess right now, but imagine the worst… and you’ll probably fall short.

But we don’t have just sit here, wring our hands and cry “woe is us.” …

No doubt, the reasons are legion and the analysis / finger-pointing will go on for a very, very long time. Was it because she was a woman? Was it because that, as Vice-President, she couldn’t distance herself sufficiently from the …

I was listening to the Thom Hartmann show yesterday (highly recommended), and as a caller was signing off, he remarked, resignedly, that it’s now all about redoubling efforts to win the House and Senate in 2026. Thom agreed.

Fair enough. …

Some years ago, I was fortunate enough to become friends with a legendary figure in the music biz, producer/manager of one of greatest rock bands of all time. Lest I be accused of name-dropping, I won’t mention his name here; …

Democrats know how to govern; there’s no two ways about it. Democrats created Social Security, the Minimum Wage, Unemployment Compensation, the GI Bill and dozens other programs that created the great American Middle Class and generations of prosperity.

Republicans created …

There’s an old Hollywood story and it goes like this:

A major movie producer had a reputation for being a tyrannical boss. He was feared and loathed throughout the industry, but when he died, he nevertheless had a lavish funeral …

Except for Laurence O’Donnell and Rachel Maddow (both of which I DVR), I’ve largely stopped watching MSNBC. What did it for me was the day after the election, when I happened to have the TV on with the sound off, …