Tag: Cancer

• The GOP And The Neo-Confederacy

  The American Civil War is proof. It’s no good winning a war if you’re going to lose the peace that follows. While the North got the war’s “W” in real time, the Confederacy, in the long term, got the “W” that counts. Reconstruction should have begun to undo slavery’s myriad harms – to the slaves…

  A L Katz

  January 21, 2024

  Culture, Fascism, Racism, Republicanism, Rule of Law, Slavery

  American Civil War, American South, Appomattox, Cancer, Dixiecrats, Heather Cox Richardson, Nixon’s Southern Strategy, Parasitic wasps, Reconstruction, Slavery, Zombies

• The Republican Party Is What Happens When Bad Ideas And Thinking Metastasize

  The reason Republicans have to rely on gerrymandering, voter suppression and terrible legislation to win elections is because nobody except them will vote for their ideas. To be clear, the only problem Republicans see looming in America’s future is diversity and the loss of political power that diversity will cost them. They see a loss…

  A L Katz

  September 9, 2021

  Afghanistan, American Exceptionalism, Branding, Climate Change, Corruption, Culture, Election 2016, Racism, Republicanism, The Branding Age, Treason, Trump

  All Men Are Created Equal, Cancer, Citizens United, Conservatism, Corruption, Cynicism, Donald Trup, E Pluribus Unum, French Enlightenment, Kevin McCarthy, Metastasize, Mission Accomplished, Trickle Down Economics

• Rush Limbaugh Is The Poster Boy For What Happens When Conservatism Crashes Into Reality

  I don’t wish cancer on anyone. Not out loud anyway. Inside my head might be another story but that’s between me and me. For years, Rush Limbaugh used his radio show to 1) pooh-pooh the harmful effects of tobacco (and cigar smoking) while advocating that his audience take up the habit BECAUSE TOBACCO COULDN’T HURT…

  A L Katz

  February 7, 2020

  American News Media, Atheism, Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit, Election 2016, False Patriotism, Magical Thinking, Republicanism, Suicide Prevention, Trump

  Cancer, Cannabis Culture, Cannabis prohibition, Cannabis strains, Carpe diem, Conservatism, Conservative thinking, Medical Marijuana, Rush Limbaugh cancer diagnosis

• Some Things Just Need To Be Said: Republicans Are A Cancer

  I could go on and on and on and on. Pictures speak more eloquently more quickly. This is what cancer looks like… And this… And, as one should do with a cancer, we need to chop the Republicans from our body politic. Before they kill us.

  A L Katz

  June 16, 2019

  Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit, Election 2016, False Patriotism, Live Bullshit Free, Political Commentary, Republicanism, Trump

  Cancer, Putin, Republican corruption, Republicans, Treason, Trump, Trumpism, Vladimir Putin