For all the many and different cars I have owned from age seventeen (the iconic VW Beetle) to age seventy (the less iconic VW Golf), in between I had a "Saab story" and the only car I ever slapped with a bumper sticker. It was during the so-called "cold war" between the US and then USSR. Up for negotiation was the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT). Self-explanatory, yet hotly debated between the two major superpowers following years of a mad build-up of weapons of

Tell your neighbors, your family, your friends that our government is currently- actively- buying warehouses in neighborhoods around the country to "warehouse" tens of thousands of human beings. This is a link to the detention camps. https://lookerstudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/b0228ccb-6fcf-4ab6-9d9b-41dd53292ec6/page/p_uy4yssvm0d* * www.MaddowBlog.com

Schonhaussen Palace, East Berlin Art lives in our hearts and souls, ears, eyes, mind, and body. . . it is the heartbeat of a civilized society. Cherished for all time, art lives well beyond one culture, time, and place. It never dies...yet, some try to kill it, or keep it for themselves. That's what the Nazis did in Germany by labeling art pieces as "degenerate"* in order to remove them from the public and private collections around Berlin. I visited Schonhaussen Palace in 20

The National Basketball Players Association said it could no longer remain silent. “Now more than ever,” it said, “we must defend the right to freedom of speech and stand in solidarity with the people in Minnesota protesting and risking their lives to demand justice. The fraternity of NBA players, like the United States itself, is a community enriched by its global citizens, and we refuse to let the flames of division threaten the civil liberties that are meant to protect us

Some historical figures take on a bigger than life persona and encountering their legacy brings them to life again. It feels that way for me with Martin Luther King, Jr. because I have walked in places where he had---not once, but three separate times---first as a graduate student at Boston University School of Theology. Sometimes when the halls were quiet, say on a Friday afternoon, I would imagine him bounding up the stairs, two at a time, when he studied in those same clas

St. Augustine, FLorida It's gotten to be a regular thing for a lot of people: Make a sign, meet and march. Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor heat of day or "heat" on the ground has deterred anyone across the country and around the world. It is what we do together. "I feel like I have done something afterward", says one vigil keeper in New Hampshire. "My sign is not my words--it was written years ago by Orwell", says a woman in Florida. Two voices in conservative states

Say good-bye to 2025...finally! I refuse to review what has come to pass in America. But, before fast forwarding into 2026, I am looking way way way back to the first year--- A.D. ---the year of our Lord. In that year, we are told in many ways through different faith traditions that Jesus arrived in the world. Whatever version you subscribe to, the story told is one of an itinerant man who wandered with a mission. He was not a missionary, per se, like those who arrived later