I Left My Hate in San Francisco

I  Left My Hate in San FranciscoJudy Wallen – I arrived in San Francisco an agitating radical. Decades later I left an agitated conservative. With its variety pack of human types and myriad available life paths seemingly as fascinating as its meandering undulating roads, San Francisco presented itself as the irresistibly perfect escort to help usher a youth into adulthood.

It had character. It had charm. It had beauty, man-made and natural. It had mood-altering views, man-made and natural. It had movies made in it. It had paintings painted of it. It had poems written about it. It had songs sung for it. And, it had hate. Continue reading

Break Away from the Woke Herd

Always drink upstream from the herd.”—Will Rogers

Break Away from the Woke HerdBruce Berres – Seems like good advice with a little humor.

We are all members of a herd of one category or another.  A football team could be a herd, a marching band, a church, the armed forces, a riot or activist march, or a political party.  Herds that represent a cause can be liberal or conservative, radical or passive, loud or quiet, hidden or out in the open.  Ants run in herds, cattle, birds, fish, and people. Continue reading

The Woke Mob’s Destruction of the English Language

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. – George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

wokeRichard McDonough – Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, a member of the progressive “squad,” recently accused those who disagree with student debt cancellation of “policy violence.”  That is, to disagree with the left now is “violence.”  This kind of linguistic legislation by the left is now common.  Words mean whatever they want them to mean in order to achieve their far-left goals.

Pressley’s statement is also an implied threat.  Since violence is justified in response to violence, Pressley is letting American’s know what is coming if they do not get their way. Continue reading

Warning Signs Someone You Know Is Getting ‘Woke’

wokeSean Adl-Tabatabai – Covid is not the only virus sweeping the West. According to experts, being ‘woke’ might actually be a type of ‘virus’ that infects the mind and impairs a person’s personality.

Historian Brett Sinclair has identified seven distinct personality traits that suggest somebody has become or is in the process of becoming ‘woke.’

‘Woke’ is now a common term for those who become unbearably incensed with faux progressive social justice issues. Often, this obsession takes the form of smug and aggressive protest activism – which infiltrates every aspect of a person’s life. Continue reading