A Dollar a Sop (or Don’t Run the Hobos out of the Woods until You Run the Crooks out of Washington)

July 12, 2015

By Mickey Walker - 07.12.15

Whenever it floods for weeks on end and Texas’ rivers spill out of their banks for the first time in 100 years, I try to think of other times and seasons when record cold and ice storms play havoc with humanity on and near the Gulf Coast of Texas. It helps to get your mind off the reality at hand, e.g. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita of 2005. Not to mention the sweltering heat of this time in the year right before the 4th of July. Thinking of cold weather helps you forget the Great Floods of 2015 when the Brazos, the Trinity, the San Jacinto Rivers of South Texas flooded damn near everything and everybody downstream. Bad times and misery makes for colorful conversation so it would appear by the news and all the press these times of stress bring. It makes for great songs that sing of the misery of man, and we delight in this art form and call it ‘Blues.’

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Political Paradoxes and Other Strong Evidence of Human Depravity and Dumbass in America

June 14, 2015

By Mickey Walker-June 10, 2015

Have you ever paused to ask if a notion or a government policy is sound, logical, and rational? As a poster child for the lame logic of why Bush and all his minions were so hell-bent on attacking Iraq back in 2003 the following points were assumed to be true:

1. Bush had acquired knowledge that Saddam Hussein was attempting to buy some “Yellow Cake” fissionable Uranium235 from….. (Drum roll)……. Africa. Bush had pre-decided that Hussein had intentions of building atomic weapons to point them at American cities. And though George Tenant, CIA Director at the time had told Bush that they information had been gathered from British Intelligence, and that even the Brits said that that intelligence was BOGUS, and that it

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The Difference between Propaganda and Truth in 21st Century America

May 10, 2015

By Mickey Walker-May 10, 2015

When the 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge died in 1933, it was mostly a non-event in the country. Nobody knew much about him. He remained incommunicado, or so it seemed, the whole time he spent in the White House. During his presidency from 1926-1929 “Silent Cal” was notorious for saying very little and doing even less. A reporter in 1933, upon hearing that Coolidge had died, dryly asked the question: “How can you tell?”

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We, the People, on Giving up Our Basic Freedoms: “Habeas Corpus,” Who Needs it, Anyway?

April 12, 2015

By Mickey Walker - 04.12.15

Enablers. That’s what we have become, alright. Let’s be honest with ourselves. We Americans have been a nation that watched baseball, football, and failed to pay attention. We did not know much about government and did not have time to study it beyond high school courses in history and government. Government bores us as much as it did in high school. Our litmus test for government and even truth has come to be something that sounded good, sounded right to us on the television. Talking heads told us what to believe, who to vote for, and ultimately who we are. And voting for actors who winked and smiled at the camera (remember the Gipper?) were elected to high office to sit in the White House for 8 years, just because they made us feel good. They held the voters in the palm of their hands. With no credentials necessary to govern. And with less than average IQ’s.

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Brave New World Order: the Difference between GOD and the GOP-PART II

March 6, 2015

By Mickey Walker-February 8, 2015

Turn, turn, my wheel, all things must change,
To something new, something strange;
Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
To-morrow be to-day.

‘Keramos-The Potter’s Wheel’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 –1882)

Yes, it is quite certain that everything changes. And that change we might call a perception, a belief. Of what, one might ask? Say a perception of reality, perhaps. As a child we have little problem with our visual senses. We come to count on certain realities we know to be in place. Out skin tells us when it is hot outside and when it is cold.

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Brave New World Order: the Difference between the GOP and God-PART I

February 8, 2015

By Mickey Walker-February 8, 2015

“TURN, TURN, my wheel (world); all things must change,
To something new, something strange,”
‘Keramos’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 –1882)

When I was a young boy, reality was everywhere: it was in the trees, the Cardinals and Blue Jays, the bluest sky and clean air that filled your lungs and made your heart leap. Reality lingered in the tufts of cauliflower clouds, even though a freckled-faced boy of 10 imagined them to be

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