Last year the Philadelphia world was filled with Joy, Happiness, and the expectation that we would be on top of the world forever. Now we watch other cities compete for the Super Bowl and we look at all of our sports teams in some degree or other of disarray. Mark Twain does a great job of capturing our change of fortunes in today's quote of the day from The Gilded Age.
Four years ago today, Putin ordered the Russian military to invade Ukraine. Honestly, I expected him to overrun the country and be in control in Kyiv in less than a week. I am so used to people caving into power rather than fighting back that I never imagined that the
It is great to see more and more union-affliated candidates running for office all around the country, but in my mind this is only a stopgap measure. I have always been extremely pro-union, but only in the context of a world run by out of control capitalists. I have always
Of course there is only despair on the ground in Gaza. Their land is in ruins, their homes have been destroyed, and Palestinians in the West Bank are having their land stolen from them. They also have the historical memory of promises made and promises broken. As Emily Dickinson once
With the striking down of the Trump tariffs we are told that "Chaos may come next". What? I agree with Isabel Allende. "To judge by what I saw around me, the world was [already] pure chaos".