PAM BONDI ASSAULT ON AMERICA… DESTROYING OUR DEMOCRACY WORD BY WORD CONCEPT BY CONCEPT STONE BY STONE & PILLAR BY PILLAR Trump and sycophants are relentless in their destruction of our American democracy. Today, in the beginning of 2006, it is the choice of language that destroys our American Democracy, word by word, concept […]
New Year’s Eve with Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson Just when I needed a New Years resolution, you delivered it, Mary Jo. Thanks for digging deep into the annals of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Life & Times” and delivering my 2026 New Year’s Resolution. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in […]
GOOD JOURNALISM 2025 Wow. What a week for the Baldas-Elrick household. The two best articles I have seen in a long, long time were both published in this week’s Detroit Free Press… both Grand Slam Home Runs. Tresa Baldas. You led off with a most emotionally, gripping, front page, David vs Goliath account of a […]
Non-Hillbilly Elegy The Broken People of Nothingness Common ground with Hillbilly J.D. Having read excerpts of J.D. Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy, I found him to be a “pretender” (or, as my Irish Mother would call him, a “phony”). But, there was some common ground. The death of J.D. Vance’s grandmother, Mamaw, is a poignant replay […]
The Sendoff Now, my Father, we bid you adieu as you begin anew. Though done here, it’s your time for rebirth and “slip the surly bonds of this earth” (High Flight). We the living release your soul to look through the porthole of eternity and continue on your eternal journey with dignity and amnesty. […]
Where Have You Gone Joe DiMaggio ??? The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent “shadow” docket decision, Noem vs Perdomo… allows ICE to ignore Constitutional restraints when confronting, searching or arresting a profiled group, i.e. those who look like, sound like or work like hispanic immigrants (even though they may be citizens or, otherwise, legally in the […]
WE SEE YOU SUPPORTERS OF VIOLENCE We see you hypocrites and supporters of violence and your unabashed lack of shame. From Trump (the Commander in Chief), to Hegseth (the Secretary of War), to Charlie Kirk (the justifier of deaths of school children under his vision of a very robust Second Amendment) and to all those […]
STRONG ARMING AMERICA’S LIFE, LIBERTY & PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS Hey, everyone, let’s shine the light on the Republican “control, control and control” philosophy… “controlling” every aspect of American life at the expense of… American’s human right to walk to the beat of their own drummer, American’s human right chart their own, God-given, Free Will through […]
RIGHTS AND DUTIES SYNOPSIS I don’t know about this article, Richard (Why Do So Many People Think Trump Is Good?, David Brooks, The Atlantic, July 8, 2025). It seems more convoluted than it has to be. I think that (philosophically) a life of rights claimed (by the individual) and duties owed (to Society)… can be […]
DETROIT NEWS’ EDITOR… UNIFORMED ON GAZA I read Detroit News editor, Nolan Finley’s, personal bio in the 8/10/2025 Sunday paper, “Co-author of the Civility Book, a Guide to Building Bridges Across the Political Divide.” That’s the same Nolan Finley who is an on again, off again supporter of Donald Trump. But, always a supporter of […]
