Season of Faith & Celebration
Merry Christmas! to my Christian friends and those who follow Santa. Happy Holidays! to everyone else. The greeting “Happy Holidays,” as cheerful and simple as it is, has stirred impassioned controversy — despite the fact there’s also New Years Day too, a whole second holiday. It seems appropriate to wish happiness on both holidays, right? […]
Socialists Have It Right
Guest Author: David Rowlands Introduction Today I welcome back guest author David Rowlands. We’ve been friends since college. (Yes, that long ago!) I write about politics here sometimes, but David’s commentaries are better. Just don’t tell him I said so. His first article I posted here presented a working-class perspective on politics. Five Examples where […]
30 Years of Pride
≡ Snapshots of Gay History as Told Thru Video Today is Pride in the CLE, Cleveland’s annual LGBT Pride Day. The day will start with a march stepping off 11 a.m. from West 9th Street and Front Avenue, then traveling to Public Square where a festival will be held from Noon till 6 p.m. It […]
Remembering Dad at 21
My Dad passed away on Cinco de Mayo twenty years ago, plus 1. At 21 I guess that makes him an adult angel now. It’s amazing to think that he’s been gone nearly a third of my life. Yet he remains ever-present. I think of him almost everyday. And even when not, I know that […]
A Teaching Moment
There’s a teaching moment in all the uproar over events at the Lincoln Memorial a week ago Friday. But what is it? The privilege and racism of white suburban Catholic boys? Trump-inspired disrespect of Native Americans and indigenous cultures? Confrontation and suppression of Free Speech? The polarization of politics? The power and danger of social […]
A Working-Class Perspective on Politics Today
Guest Author: David Rowlands Introduction Today I welcome guest author David Rowlands. David and I are longtime friends going back to my college years. We met while doing political work together at Kent State University. David is former member of the United States Socialist Workers Party (SWP), not to be confused with a party of […]
Thou Shalt Not Love
≡ Gay Video of the Week Prejudice and bigotry against peoples of color, Jews, immigrants and others is rooted in class society where the ruling class needs to keep the working class divided against itself. The idea is divide and conquer, basically, so that workers will see each other as the problem and not the […]
The Abominable Health Care Act
View this post on my first blog, Just Sayin’. Published Friday, March 10, 2017. Please Note: My original blog platform did not support Comments directly with the post. Please return here if you wish to post a comment. Thanks! A Request to my Facebook Friends: If you have a comment I encourage you to enter it below […]
Friends Don’t Let Friends Vote Trump… Or Do They?
View this post on my first blog, Just Sayin’. Published Friday, January 20, 2017. Title Image of Trump: Gage Skidmore Please Note: My original blog platform did not support Comments directly with the post. Please return here if you wish to post a comment. Thanks! A Request to my Facebook Friends: If you have a comment I […]
Fidel Castro & the Cuban Revolution
View this post on my first blog, Just Sayin’. Published Saturday, December 31, 2016. Title image: Ian Usher Please Note: My original blog platform did not support Comments directly with the post. Please return here if you wish to post a comment. Thanks! A Request to my Facebook Friends: If you have a comment I encourage you […]
