“Sumawka Caller”

There’s a question going around this fall. Will armed federal agents show up where people vote? Folks on one side say it’s coming. Folks on the other side say it’s a scare story. I wanted to know what the record actually says. So I went and looked. Here is what I found. It’s not as…

Nobody Elected The Man With The Switch There is a picture I cannot get out of my head this week. It is not a picture of a battlefield. It is a picture of a switch. One switch, in one man’s hand, and on the other end of it, a war. Here is what happened. Ukraine…

There is a song that came out in 1969 that most of us can still hum without thinking. Creedence Clearwater Revival. “Fortunate Son.” Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son (Official Lyric Video) John Fogerty wrote it in about twenty minutes, sitting on the edge of his bed, mad as a hornet. It ran a little…

Something shifted in this election, and it happened fast. For months, the answer was always the same. Ask a voter what matters most and they said prices. Groceries, rent, the gas pump. That was the story all summer. Then a Fox News poll came out on October 14. Government corruption came in as the number…

Somebody is promising you money for your vote. Five thousand dollars, he says. Every adult citizen gets a check. All you have to do is keep his party in charge of both the House and the Senate this November. That promise is a lie. It is also a desperate attempt to win a lost cause….

After a couple more posts like this one, we will stop posting on Facebook. This is not a goodbye. It is a change of address. I want to tell you why. And I want to tell you where to find us. You deserve both. Let me start with the why. Facebook gives big numbers. Every…

There’s an old tool most people have forgotten we own. It doesn’t need a lawyer. It doesn’t need a vote. It doesn’t need a badge or a judge or a single dollar. It’s called the shun. Persistently avoid, ignore, or reject (someone or something) through antipathy or caution. Folks used to know how it worked….

When most folks hear the words “quality of life,” they think about money. They think about the price of eggs. The gas pump. The doctor bill sitting on the counter. Whether the check stretches to the end of the month. Those things matter. I won’t pretend they don’t. But that’s not the quality of life…

Two weeks from now, this country goes to the polls. The talk out there says it could be a bad night for the party in power. Polls lean that way. Pundits lean that way. And some folks who make a living watching the president say they already know what comes the morning after. One of…

People talk a lot these days about the good old days. The front porch in the evening. Neighbors who knew your name. Supper at the table with the whole family. A handshake that meant something. They say it like they are describing treasure. And they are right. It was treasure. But here is the part…