To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Observercast

GOP’s Perverse Book-Banning Crusade

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Tiptoeing around the democratic process, Indiana’s Republican legislature has become the latest of that ilk to slap its local school librarians with an idiotic book ban. Snuck into law behind closed doors, the partisan Hoosier law requires librarians to pull books that the learned lawmakers consider “harmful to minors.” Just to juice up the ignorance […]

Donald Trump Is Not Our Type, Believe Me

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The Trump rally promoted by CNN [but paraded as a “town hall”] included the inevitable references to the former president’s piggish remarks about women. Kaitlan Collins dug in on the famous Access Hollywood videotape in which the former president claimed that a rich celebrity could grab a woman by her privates and get away with […]

The Teflon Don

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Can he get away with this, too? A New York jury award of $5 million for sexual abuse and defamation would be enough to sink any normal candidate for high office. But Donald Trump is no normal candidate. In the wake of the jury verdict, he did it again – that is, he again attacked […]

Chicken Littles Attack America’s Teachers

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I’m a child of privilege. Not the privilege of money [I come from a family of small-town working people]. But it was my privilege to grow up in the public schools of Denison, TX. There I received the rich blessings of dedicated classroom teachers, a diverse student body, playground socialization, librarians, coaches, cafeteria and custodial […]

The Supreme Court’s Indelible Stain

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Every fresh revelation of an ethical lapse by Clarence Thomas raises the question to which Republican leaders apparently have no answer: Just how much crooked behavior by a conservative Supreme Court justice will they justify? So far, they seem utterly untroubled by Thomas’ acceptance from a right-wing billionaire of lavish vacations, jet travel, the lucrative […]