February 5, 2021             New Orleans      There’s no question about it, the Proud Boys and their ilk are a bad bunch that have to be cordoned off from the regular crowd of disappointed Trumpsters as extremists, gunsels, wild whacks, and bad hombres in general. The are racists, misogynists, far-right, anti-Semitic, and neo-fascists as verified …

February 4, 2021             New Orleans      In the old culture of the Service Employees International Union and the AFL-CIO, where Local 100 and I spent twenty-five years, I would be buying a plane ticket for John Sweeney’s funeral right now, if the pandemic allowed it.         It would be expected, and …

February 3, 2021                    New Orleans      News of another coup, if we could call it that, where the Myanmar military took back powers that it had loaned to the people for the last several years, seems to be greeted with more “I told you so’s” than surprise, but that doesn’t lessen the huge tragedy …