Author: George MF Washington

On Sunday I was doing my usual routine… you know the drill… giving my kids their weekly COVID tests and searching the house for six masks (3 each) they would need to make it through eight hours of masked schooling… you know, totally normal stuff, nothing at all weird about anny of it. And then,… Continue reading Hollywood’s Hypocrisy: I will not be ruled

Basically what you do is, well, you do whatever you want to do, and then you go out in front of the Press and you simply lie about it, secure in the knowledge that the Partisan Press on your side will present your lies as truth and thereby solidify your base. The only time you… Continue reading How Governing is Done now

20 years ago it was fashionable to hate big companies that destroyed smaller mom and pop stores by stealing their customers away with a combination of lower prices (due to bulk purchasing) and better selection (also based on bulk purchasing). In 2004, Maxine Waters famously led an effort to stop Wal-Mart from opening a store… Continue reading Oligarchs who destroy mom and pop businesses are fine now, you guys

General Milley has said that we should expect that Terrorist attacks which orginate in Afghanistan and eventually makes their way to our shores could begin again in as little as 12 or 13 months. Know what’s 14 months away? The Friday after Thanksgiving 2022… the biggest shopping day of the year. I’m not going to… Continue reading The return of attacks on the Homeland?

There’s almost no one on Planet Earth I hate more than 9/11 Truthers… it’s not just that they’re ignorant, though certainly they are that, it’s the way they combine their ignorance with a bizarre sort of smugness and then wear the entirte disgusting mash-up on their sleeves like a badge of honor. They are completely… Continue reading 9/11 Truthers… stupid AND cowardly

Twenty years ago I woke up in Los Angeles and began my morning ritual. I’m a creature of habit and in those days my habit was to go directly to the bathroom and turn on, first the shower, and then my shower radio. It was tuned to 97.1 FM in those days, the station that… Continue reading 9/11 plus 20

Monday evening was the end of a very warm Labor Day here in Los Angeles. I was inside with my family, watching TV with the windows open to let in a meager late summer breeze, when I heard shouting outside. A deep gravelly voice that carried a long way, even on a busy night with… Continue reading When the Police can no longer protect us…

So every college student in America seems to have decided “enough of this shit” and gone to football games this past weekend. Good… it’s time for this to be over. We understand the risk, we know who is most vulnerable. We can, and should, go back to our lives. But still, a lot of folks… Continue reading A look into our Near-COVID Future

Joe Biden tells us that 120,000 people were evacuated from Afghanistan over the last two weeks. Of that number, 5,400 were American citizens and 8,500 were SIV holders. That leaves something like 100,000 unidentified evacuees. What do we know about these 100,000 people? Virtually nothing. But one thing that they all have in common is… Continue reading Ticking Time Bombs… coming to a town near you (maybe)