There are items below that give me qualms, but it must be conceded that the party of fervid, un-self-aware 
self-righteousness has outdone itself this time . . .


 
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF OUR MAJOR PARTY CANDIDATES, AND SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT --Passed along 
from an old friend:
 

What if things were switched around? 
Would the country's collective point of view be different?


What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including an unwed pregnant teenage daughter?

 
What if McCain had married only once, and Obama were divorced?

 
What if Obama were the candidate who had left his first ...   more »

INFRASTRUCTURE, Part 1:

WHAT INFRASTRUCTURE INCLUDES –Our voting systems.

Even aside from GOP efforts at vote suppression, every American election nowadays demonstrates the problems, errors, inconveniences involved in a process fundamental to the peaceful transmission of power, i.e. our democratic system of government.

The problems—and worse than mere problems—endemic to our system of voting constitute junk. They are ...   more »