To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Friday, May 17, 2024

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George Floyd, Me, You … And A Donald Trump Coup!

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Viewing the video of George Floyd’s gruesome murder, one word in particular from him stuck in my head, one painful human utterance that conveys the horror of it all. “Mama,” Floyd cried out in desperation and disbelief as his life was cruelly and senselessly suffocated in yet another brutal white-on-black slaying by so-called officers of […]

A Case Of Negligent Homicide

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A normal president of either political party would have read by now the dark milestone that the country passed this week, when American deaths from coronavirus passed 100,000 in a space of three months. A normal president would have felt compelled to face up to this terrible reality in a spirit of unity and compassion, […]

Trump Plays His Willie Horton Card

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Donald Trump has been trying for years to play his Willie Horton card, to divide the country along lines of race as a means of reaffirming his base. You can hardly give him credit for creativity, strategically speaking. It’s not so different from the way former President Richard Nixon played “law and order,” the way […]

Selfishness And The Sun

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The weather was glorious in Southern California the past week, as it was in much of the nation. The beaches and Boardwalk were so crowded, full of families who had clearly come from other parts of the city to escape the confines of crowded apartments. No, it wasn’t the usual crowd of druggies and bikers […]

The First Scandal Of Campaign 2024

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Do you remember Mike Pompeo? Not the Pompeo who now serves as secretary of state, and who liked to boast that he had restored the “swagger” of the diplomatic corps [even as he served up his own Ukraine ambassador to a White House smear campaign]. And no, not the sleazy character who induced the firing […]