To: Congress From: Annie October 2017 Dear Congress, my name is Annie, and I have a question for you. Why did you let them kill me? I used to have a mom and dad who loved me very much, and I loved them just as much. My grandparents loved me, my aunts and uncles loved …
In The Shadow Of Lobbyist Pens
by Max Humana December 20, 2017 Congress’s frenzied attempts this week to rush a historically bad tax code change through at light speed are a travesty and a collective rejection of the oath each member swore upon assuming office. In their haste to ram this tax change through, Congress is rushing like a mob of …
Which One Is It (Hitler or Trump)?
Quick quiz for you - I went ahead and circled the answers but you knew them anyway. History will give the answer to the last item.
Your Five Recommendations To Fix America
by Max Humana, 15 January 2018 Everybody's got an opinion. But to borrow a bit of Orwell, some opinions are more equal than others. Highly informed and/or well-reasoned opinions contributed to the public debate always help the cause of doing the most good for the most people. Opinions uninformed by facts are often unwise and usually unhelpful, so should be …
We Need a Clintonoscopy and a Trumpectomy
by Max Humana, March 2016 The presidential primaries are over. The people have spoken. The citizens of the United States have selected who they believe to be the two best options, from a large group of applicants, for the most powerful elected office in the world. How did it go? All I can say is, …
Things Stuck To The Bottom Of My Shoes (Thoughts on the 2016 Presidential Race)
by Max Humana, May 8 2016 So here we are, the 8th of May 2016, and the race for the POTUS’s soon-to-be-available throne is much different from this time last week. What a difference a Tuesday makes! Following an absolute drubbing by ‘his people” aka religiofascist evangelical conservatives, in Indiana during the primary election this …
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Four Degrees of Separation
by Max Humana The domain of reality contains universes without end, which layer on each other like pages in a multidimensional and infinitely long book. Within these universes, all potential outcomes are possible. The thread of every human life weaves a path through the fabric of the reality contained within each universe. The endlessly …
Willful Congressional Sedition; An Open Letter to Congressional Obstructionists
February 2016 Senator Grassley: I write this letter as a taxpayer who pays your salary, as a retired military officer, and as one of over three hundred million taxpayers on whose behalf you are supposed to be working. I begin this letter with a quotation that will undoubtedly live in ignominy and infamy: “"Once the …
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It’s Time to Sequester Congress
by Max Humana, October 2013 The time is long past to bring sense to how we run our great nation. It is time to “sequester” Congress. Boiled down to Joe Sixpack basics, our Constitution gives the Congress the job of making the nation’s laws and managing its money. They pass the laws that drive most …
A Tale of Two Countries
by Max Humana, October 2015 Anyone who watched the first Republican presidential “debate”, then watched the first Democratic debate, must have wondered if the people on the respective stages were all actually competing for the same job in the same country. It was truly bizarre to watch the Democratic debate with the memory of the Republican …
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