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Who Has Real Strength?

July 4, 2025 Like 0 Steve Nelson

Alligator Alcatraz. Catchy name. Trump, DeSantis et al, think it’s really funny. Lock up brown people in concentration camps surrounded by deadly animals. The strains play out in my head. “My Country ’Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty .…

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Developing Little Bigots

June 28, 2025 1 0 Steve Nelson

There are many ways to make other people feel unwelcome. Among the most effective is to leave the room every time they enter. This is what the conservative – reactionary – justices on the Supreme Court encouraged last week. The…

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Harvard, Meh . . .

June 1, 2025 Like 0 Steve Nelson

Day after day “Harvard” graces the front pages of America’s newspapers. This week it is the Trump administration effort to bar international students. Last week it was termination of various federal grants. The week before it was threats to take…

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Word Salad From Jared Polis

May 20, 2025 Like 0 Steve Nelson

Progressive? Not so much. Last week Colorado Governor Jared Polis vetoed SB25-005, a so-called “union bill” that sought to eliminate a provision of an 82 year-old law dealing with collective bargaining. Polis offered up a word salad to defend his…

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What Would You Do?

May 14, 2025 Like 0 Steve Nelson

The tension radiates from the head down. At the top, sits the most profoundly ignorant and grotesque president in American history. Does engaging with him, in any way, normalize the abnormal? There seem to be two distinct realms; the arguably…

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What Jesus Wouldn’t Do

May 7, 2025 Like 0 Steve Nelson

WWJD? This acronymic question adorns bumpers and bracelets across the nation. In the unlikely event that you are unaware, it stands for “What Would Jesus Do?” I suppose one response is, “God only knows.” I certainly don’t. If there was…

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Chitty and the Children to the Rescue!

May 4, 2025 Like 0 Steve Nelson

Kennedy Schmennedy. Who needs the Kennedy Center when we have Erie’s Red Hawk Elementary School? Donald Trump has kidnapped Washington’s Kennedy Center entirely, naming himself Chairman and installing such artistic luminaries as Lee Greenwood and Laura Ingraham as Trustees. Performances…

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Our Schools May Destroy Our Country

May 4, 2025 Like 0 Steve Nelson

The most dangerous dimension of the right wing takeover of America is hiding in plain sight. While illegal deportations, tariff idiocy, Hegseth incompetence, egg prices, ad infinitum . . . dominate the headlines, the makeover of our education system is…

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Put a Little Love in Your Heart

March 30, 2025 Like 0 Steve Nelson

“Put a Little Love in Your Heart!” This tune by Jackie DeShannon was a hit in 1969, later reprised by Annie Lennox and Al Green. It was among the social anthems of a tumultuous era when the civic and cultural…

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A Public Lynching

March 21, 2025 1 0 Steve Nelson

Back in the day – way back – I was tangentially involved in civic affairs in Cleveland, Ohio. The city had been unfairly tarred with slogans like “The Mistake on the Lake.” It didn’t help that the Mayor had caught…