In a spate of recent rulings, district and circuit courts have held that anti-discrimination laws in education and employment extend protections to transgender people.

Preface — This is just my opinion and you are here by notified, profanity alert! (Also I published this at Medium.com)

The Great Obama Economy. It created more than 11 million jobs.

I can't explain why I keep watching Fareed Zakaria when he manages to piss me off each and every week. There must be a deep masochistic flaw in my psyche. This week's outrage? The United States is "a miracle" of peace and stability. Yeah, right.

This is quite a series of tweets by our Idiot In Chief

Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That's because they used knives and a truck!

The carrying of most types of Knives is already banned in the UK. So are guns.

No, I am not referring to the terrorist attack in London that has a death toll of seven people and is dominating the news cycle. Nor am I referring to the suicide bomb that was set off outside a concert venue in Manchester. No, I'm referring to the one in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Last week I pointed out that the Manchester terrorist has actually been an MI6 intelligence asset in Libya.

The Corporate Coup

The success of the corporate oligarchy is evident all around us.... from a “for profit corporation in chief” to his cabinet that owns as much as half the citizens in the country. Like it or not (aware or not) we are subservient to the oligarchs. Remember the fellow hauled off the airplane last month? How about the corporate mercenaries attack against the water protectors at Standing Rock? Or, what about our helplessness as we use our own tax money to finance corporate wars for fossil fuels?

Flashpoint: a spark which initiates an explosion.

First time I went to Las Vegas, me and a college friend drove down there from Olympia, WA on the way to Oklahoma City via Palm Springs, CA (but I've never been to Spain). I remember we decided to stand around and study the craps tables for awhile until we figured out how to play. After deciding we had learned enough to lose money, we placed our bets. Two bucks, on red. The dealer took a quick look at our bets and plainly stated, "no action".

Two bucks, no action.