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My white skin as camo.

I live in a state that voted for trump, and in a remote desert where his ideas are very popular.  My little town is about half Hispanic and half Anglo. Things have changed here. It was formerly a cow-...

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US Marines day is December 10th

My partner and I were going through a box of her family photos. She held up a cloth uniform patch. “This was his outfit in the Marines, we should look it up”.“What’d he do in the war?”“He was something...

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Mackie Messer at the inauguration?

Trump has Mack the Knife as the opener tonight? It takes gross insensitivity and colossally poor “song vetting” to do that.Doesn’t he know about the origins of the song? About Kurt Weil and Berthold...

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The Forward on Jared Kushner

Today in The Forward there is a thoughtful and introspective article on Jared Kushner. Peter Beinart wrote it. It’s entitled “How could modern Orthodox Judaism produce Jared Kushner?”It describes the...

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Rep. Steve King called to the HR office...

In the machine shop:“Well, you know that guy King?, I’m a little worried about him.”“What’s up? He’s been here a long time.”“I know, but now he’s passing out this book, it has all kinds of porn in it,...

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White appropriation of Black images, and art and Emmet Till

I pay attention to the art world, and now there is a controversy occuring at the Whitney Biennial. A white artist, Dana Schultz, has shown an abstract painting referencing the murder of Emmet Till.The...

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The Women's Convention- Detroit 27-9 Oct!

I am very pleased to have read that a national Women’s Convention is to be held in Detroit, 27-9 Oct, this fall.Many times here on KOS I’ve said, “We need an new Seneca falls Conference and a New...

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I want to see the blood map

Many people think “it happened in Vegas”. I am not good with graphics programs, but I would like to see a US map with a red dot to represent the home of each person murdered by the gun man in Las...

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Walpurgisnacht

My late mother, when she got old, liked to travel to the old country (Germany), to look around, pester our relatives, and do research on our family’s history. One day she was looking through tour books...

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St Louis area protest on Saturday June 30th

People are meeting at:Lincoln County Sheriff's Office65 Business Park DriveTroy MissouriDate:   Saturday  June 30  10:30AMGroups:  ACLU People Power, Expect Us, Latinos en Axion, ProgressWomen,...

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Chained up and left to drown

This fell off the page in just  a couple hours, but those two women are still dead and nothing I have read makes me think that anyone will be held to account. It’s hard to read some things, and hard to...

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Drowned in a prison van, by deputies

Last year two women, being transported by Horry County S. C. sheriff’s deputies, drowned when their van was caught in flood waters. Well… actually they drowned when the deputies driving abandoned the...

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