A Socio-Political Blog
Ten years ago I wrote an article about my experience with the 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Live (https://www.garyhasissues.com/2015/02/backstage-at-snls-40th/) . It got quite a lot of attention and was reproduced in several magazines as it seemed to strike a chord with a lot of people as an honest account of the show. I believe that…
I’m not sure what compels me to write something this long. It is a rebuttal to 12 things a conservative writer posted about Trump policies and the liberal agenda. I found the post to be interesting insofar as it is an accurate description of the issues that Trump brought into office and of the ideology that supports him;…
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I recall a lot of Trump’s campaign centered around immediately bringing down costs for Americans. Costs that he said were due to Biden’s “highest ever inflation” (it was, for the record, not the highest ever). In fact, Trump’s message of de-flation was so clear, most of the sarcasm from…
Recently I posted something (above) a bit irresponsible. Trump’s expansionist rhetoric led me to criticize him for putting America into “the crosshairs of every other industrialized nation.” And while I believe it does and that it puts America “first” only in terms of risk, it’s an incomplete and naive point of view. It doesn’t contain an…
On Martin Luther King Day we should recall his most enduring speech; the historic “I Have a Dream” speech delivered in August of 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. King’s eloquent call for the end of racism in the United States, delivered to over 250,000 supporters, was a defining moment in the Civil…
When I was very young my cousin, Becky, moved to California. To this day, over 60 years later, I remember my awe at where she was going. California. Land of sun, beaches, oranges, golden opportunities and Disneyland. It seemed so magical and so far away. I dreamt of visiting her, imaging what it must be…
A lot has been said (and a lot more will be said) about which party’s environmental safety strategy is correct and which is defined by complete incompetence. Have you already decided which party is which? If you have, that’s the problem. The fight to prevail; to win; to annihilate the opposition, is the war that…
The Los Angeles fires hadn’t been raging for even a day before Donald Trump issued blame on Truth Social. “Governor Newscum (sic) refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many…
It’s a conundrum to be sure. I don’t want America to fail no matter who is at the helm. I want America to be prosperous and strong regardless of what party leads. The problem is, I don’t agree with what Trump and a majority of Republicans believe to be the measurements of strength. I am…
The Des Moines Register reports: “Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says she is ready to use ‘every tool at our disposal,’ including deploying the state’s National Guard and law enforcement, to carry out President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations of illegal immigrants, according to a joint statement by Republican governors.” Reynolds and 25 other Republican…