Yes, You Were The “Party Of Lincoln,” But You Changed — In my Internet travels, I run across many Republicans who hope to shock me with tidbits of history about the good things Republicans have done and the bad things Democrats have done in their past. I want to take a few minutes to give Republicans full credit for a portion…

You Have To Read Before You Write — It was a different time when I grew up when a third grader could walk six blocks to the public library and check out books. I first remember a series about a shy stegosaurus named George, including The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek. It was written by Evelyn Sibley Lampman…

Do You Want Your Kids Playing With Their Kids? — In case you can’t enlarge the photo enough to read the words on the flags, the top flag reads” “When Tyranny Becomes Law, Rebellion Becomes Duty” The lower flag: “Don’t Tread On Me” I’ve mentioned that I live in Trump Country; Flagler County, in Northeast Florida. Several months ago, there was a sign on Interstate 95 featuring Donald and Melania, and…

Herschel Invokes The Shaggy Defense; "It Wasn't Me" — In the Jeopardy category of "Women Herschel Walker doesn't know," the woman Herschel denied driving to have an abortion held a second press conference, presenting more details and evidence about their twenty-year relationship. Sitting alongside her lawyer, Gloria Allred, "Jane Doe" presented the above photograph of the two at a…

Commonly Practiced But Not Commonly Known — “Nobody talks about the 13-year-old girl on a breeding farm, forced to bear as many children as possible, only to have them ripped away and sent down South to endure a lifetime of hardship without a mother.” Excerpted from Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South by Marie Jenkins Schwartz. Published by Harvard University Press. “By the 1820s, planters and would-be planters were moving to places previously unavailable for settlement and growing the fiber for sale in Europe and New England, where a textile…

It Might Be Racist As Long As It Isn’t The Predominant Reason — Oops, they did it again! The Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Texas state legislative maps that critics say intentionally dilute minority voting power, causing an illegal gerrymander. The justices chose not to review a ruling by a three-judge federal district court panel that decided. At the same time…

Thirty-Three Years Later — Early on the morning of April 20, 1989, Trisha Meili was found unconscious, tied up, badly beaten, and repeatedly raped in New York’s Central Park. She was rushed to the hospital and remained in a coma for two weeks. When she wakened, she had no recollection of the attack. “The…

A Mini-Memoir With A Tad Bit Of Fiction — It was 1961 in south Minneapolis. Portland Ave and Park Ave were parallel streets separated by Oakland Ave in the middle. Portland and Park are one-way streets, going opposite directions, and were the primary thoroughfares heading north and south, respectively. …

It May Happen Sooner Than You Think — I am a Twitter user. Every story I write gets posted on Twitter; I mostly remember to tag my tweet in hopes more people will see it. My Medium stories provide me income based on the readership of Medium members. I have no clue how many Twitter members are also…