How the findings of the Department of Justice in Ferguson Explain Much of What’s Wrong in America

A shocking revelation in DOJ Ferguson Report was that the municipality was using its Black citizens as “cash cows” for funding their government:  This is a disgusting thing whose very essence indicates the degree of racist contempt Ferguson officials felt...

The Crooks Among Us: Republican and Democratic Legislators “Roll Over” for the Financial Industry

"A fiduciary is a person who holds a legal or ethical relationship of trust with one or more other parties (person or group of persons). Typically, a fiduciary prudently takes care of money or other asset for another person. One...

What Makes Cruz and Carly Run? Analysis of People Needing Psychoanalysis

Yesterday the nation was treated to another bizarre spectacle, in a Presidential campaign that has overlapped one surreal spectacle after another.  I'm talking about Ultra Right Wing Religious candidate Ted Cruz,  naming Carly Fiorina as his Vice Presidential Candidate, 90...

PBS: Why I Watch But Refuse to Contribute

On September 16, 1962 Edward R. Murrow, who to my mind was the our greatest TV Journalist and a particular hero of mine, premiered the opening of Public Television on Channel 13 in New York City. You can watch that...

Strange As It Seems, Trump’s Candidacy Has Exposed Some Truths About the American Military, Buried in Hypocrisy

That Donald Trump will be the Republican Presidential candidate seems a foregone conclusion. Whether or not he is actually elected is less clear, but when you are only one of the two candidates, the possibility of Trump's election is certainly...

Hypocrisy and We: American Society is Lubricated By Duplicity

As the 2016 Presidential Electoral season is playing out, we the people are exposed to a political process of people seeking the nomination of our two political parties, that is rife with hypocrisy and lubricated by the duplicity of political...