occasional posts by risa aratyr
thoughts, news, and items of writerly interest
Ironically, it was the authors of The Federalist Papers — a treatise on the dangers of political factions — who jump-started our two-party system. While 1st Prez George W. doubtless appreciated hearing disparate opinions from his closest advisors, as James Monroe’s and Alexander Hamilton’s views became more polarized, it created the very factions they abhorred. … Read more The Cold Civil War – Part II: THE GREAT DIVIDE
The classic GOP response to removing statues of Confederate leaders or re-christening military bases named for Confederate officers is an exasperated, “What next? Scratch Ben Franklin off the $100 bill? Burn the Declaration of Independence?” Their untenable point being, the Founding Fathers owned slaves; therefore, removing statues or re-naming bases is tantamount to demanding the … Read more The Cold Civil War – Part I: ANTEBELLUM
I intended to blog right after the election, but I couldn’t get off these g’ddam tenterhooks long enough to sit down at the keyboard. The White-House Washout’s plethora of meritless lawsuits, the GSA’s (General Services Administration) refusal to cooperate with the Biden transition team, McSmug McConnell rushing to fill every open judicial seat with an … Read more Got Those Plague-Times, POTUS-Crimes, Post-Election Blues
It is a measure of the mendacity of this administration that when Our Fearful Leader tweeted that he’d tested positive for COVID-19, people on both sides of the political chasm responded with skepticism. The far-Right believed the twatwaddle’s tweet part of a pre-planned disappearing act essential to vanquishing the demonic Democrats’ cannibalistic pedophile ring. (I … Read more The Art of the Steal
Marking the heart of the harvest season (in this hemisphere, at least), the autumn equinox should be our Thanksgiving holiday. That’s my contention, anyway. Apples, grapes, blackberries, beans, ‘taters-precious, summer barley all ripe for picking and reaping . . . lots to be grateful for. This is also when the Wheel turns to the dark … Read more In Lieu of a Hug