Month: August 2024

Increasingly I find myself asking why millions of Americans continue to acquiesce or actively support a second term for Donald Trump. I find it crazy, unbelievable, so much so that it must be fiction or a fantasy movie playing out on late TV to titillate audiences given over to absurd and bizarre tales. It must…

Sometime during the first Obama administration, I was sitting at a bar on St. Simons with a friend when the proprietor came up to chat and said “someone ought to shoot him!” I was startled but then realized he was talking about the president. I vividly remember that at the time I thought how awful…

We are still distracted by construction that has seriously altered our daily routine. If we’re lucky maybe it will be finished by this weekend. In the interim, I have tried to stay informed about the ongoing presidential campaign as well as international developments, especially regarding Ukraine, Venezuela and the Middle East. As far as US….

A lot has been going on here in my world. Coincidental to the momentous developments in national politics, the island has been threatened by a seasonal hurricane and a Mexican construction crew showed up to begin our planned renovations. It has been dicey, to say the least, trying to keep up with the news, prepare…

Fate has given us Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president in November 2024. As a daughter of immigrant parents, Jamaican and Indian, the nation’s first woman vice president, lawyer and prosecutor, her story is straight out of central casting, a heroine chosen to save us from ourselves. Back in 2008, I posted my…

Voter fraud is not about actual illegal voting but about fabricated claims by Republicans that Democrats steal elections. Taking their cue from Trump, Republicans have worked tirelessly to cast doubt about elections to create chaos and undermine our confidence that voting is fair and honest, a belief that is the bedrock of the American political…

The headlines about the Venezuelan election make me want to cry. Predictably, another presidential election has been stolen in favor of Nicolas Maduro, president since 2013, despite credible evidence that the opposition won overwhelmingly. The authoritarian regime prevailed as usual promising more of the same, political corruption and disastrous economic policies for a nation that…