Oct 9, 2026 | Working-Class Scribbler
Voters in Hungary showed us what it takes to oust a strongman. “But wars are not made by common folk, scratching for livings in the heat of the day; they are made by demagogues infesting palaces.” H. L. Mencken, May 9, 1939 When was the last time you heard the...
Oct 1, 2026 | Working-Class Scribbler
There simply isn’t enough mescaline or acid to make sense of it all “And the more I know/The less I understand.” Don Henley, “The Heart of the Matter.” As I watch Donald Trump and his minions flail and fail at the simplest tasks, and MAGA Senators like Eric Schmitt...
Sep 24, 2026 | Working-Class Scribbler
With Ahab at the wheel “What kind of disastrous path lies ahead of us if we do not have the chance to purge ourselves of that putrefaction rotting inside our body?” Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago Over the past ten years I’ve written more words about...
Sep 16, 2026 | Working-Class Scribbler
9/11 didn’t change the character of the United States, it revealed it. “Obedience being a necessary food of the soul, whoever is definitely deprived of it is ill. Thus, any body politic governed by a sovereign ruler accountable to nobody is in the hands of a sick...
Sep 2, 2026 | Working-Class Scribbler
Expect the worst from Trump and you’ll never be surprised. The world teeters, burns, floods, shakes. Europe. Japan. Venezuela. The American West. Nepal. A new word enters my lexicon: pyrocumulonimbus or “fire cloud.” It has been a long summer. Iran, Gaza, the West...
Aug 24, 2026 | Working-Class Scribbler
If not Congress or a federal agency, who’s providing oversight of all this money, and making sure it’s spent properly? Old Balls & Strikes John Roberts, the forever-young choirboy, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a judicial partisan of the first order, lifted...
