Imagine, please, that you are on a ten person crew trying to extinguish a brush fire.

You continually work like crazy to put out a blaze in one area only to find new fires growing in other locations. Again and again this occurs: as flames are quelled in one place they spring up in another.

After a while, you notice that a couple members of the crew are not fighting fires; they're lighting them. As the rest of you get scorched putting out flames that threaten the entire forest, these two are spritzing dry brush with gasoline and dropping a lit match on it!

You would not just scold them.

You would not simply shun them.

You would do whatever it took to get these arsonists off the team so the forest could be saved.

Some may see this post a "Congressional metaphor" and feel outrage. Others will just shrug and say "whatever".

Vote countin' haiku:

Trumpist procedure
In each state of the nation:
"Count until we win!"

Maybe we need to ask ourselves: "If being a Democrat ever becomes a crime,

would such a charge against me be dismissed for lack of evidence?"

To say that John Donne "had a way with words" would be like saying Michael Jordan was a "pretty good

basketball player.

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”

Voter Suppression For Dummies---who say "What's the big deal?"

If voters in predominantly white precincts have a 20 minute wait to vote while predominantly black or brown precincts have a 10 HOUR wait, THAT is a Big Deal.

If a firearm owner ID card is sufficient "voter ID" but state university student ID is not, THAT is a Big Deal.

If the new polling place for inner-city residents is across town in a suburbsn mall not accessible by public transportation, THAT is a Big Deal.

And, if you can't see how the above favors wealthy white racists, THAT is a Big Deal.

If you want to see over 70 Republican IQ points

you're going to have to herd Marshall, Paul, Tuberville and Blackburn into the same room at the same time.

if I was to post anything else right now, it would be an obscenity-filled all-caps rant and----

----'sall I got

Has a president who had just lost re-election ever before been accepted as

the "leader of his party"?

Has ANY losing POTUS candidate?

"It's a WITCHHUNT, I tell ya!" said the witch. nt

Anyone searching for evidence of what's wrong with American "journalism" need look no

further than the near-hourly updates about the arrogant self-centered little boy in Australia who may not get to play a game.

Is there any remnant left of the concept of "priorities"?