Author: lou sight

Saur/Dough

Trump’s appearance

looked dour

in Judge Juan

Marchan’s

court

for election

interference

with payments

to hush

any nasty

report.

Meanwhile,

the Supreme

Court heard

the absurd

case for immunity

for the Presidency.

Actually,

the impunity

seems exclusively

to apply 

to 45,

despite endless

questions

of future

hypotheticals,

antithetical

to the institution

or Constitution

that has served

for over 230

years. 

Trump’s Supreme

lawyer,

D. John Sauer,

seemed

to find favor

with the males

who love 

power.

They found

plausible

deniability

for immunity

regardless

of constitutionality.

Alito feigned

the whole

thing was 

offensive

and sought

to dispense 

of it

by refusing

the facts

of this 

current 

case.

Likewise,

Kavanaugh

stated his

stance,

deflecting 

from the here

and now

of the case,

to his concern

about 

the future.

Surprisingly,

Amy Coney

Barrett

quite seriously,

challenged 

Mr. Sauer

on official

versus 

private 

actions. 

Sauer’s 

concessions

that some

of Trump’s

situations

required

prosecutions,

at least

conferred

some reality

check.

The triple

named

conservative

woman

on the 

high court

reminds me

of another

one,

Sandra

Day

O’Conner,

who surprised

those who

surmised

her ties

to the right

would

compromise

her jurisprudence.

But the women

so far,

have displayed

much more

affiliation

to the Constitution

and institutions

than conciliation

to power. 

As the 

hush money

trial

has already

revealed,

concealed

monies-

whether

to subvert

an election,

or protection

of ideology

while serving

as a Justice-

is basic

corruption

always.

Less is More

I hear

less used

more frequently

than what 

“should be”

fewer.

It drives me

nuts

and cuts

to my 

guts

as I wince

at the evidence

of ignorance

and intolerance

to abide

by rules

of shared

expression.

My confession

as a grammar

cop

is no

drop

the mic

situation.

I know 

the flow

of communication

is a slow

evolution

of sorts.

Each generation

adds iteration

and creates

itself

anew.

I know

I shouldn’t

hammer

the skew

in grammar

but it sounds

so wrong

to me. 

Grammar

rules!

But schools

of thought

have taught

that what

is indicated

is complicated.

Or maybe 

it’s all 

for naught.

The mixing

of quantity

and quality

reflects society’s

confusion.

“Less” 

is more

often used

than “fewer”,

as newer

conventions

take hold.

I’m not quite

sold

on what sounds

merely

lazy,

lacking knowledge

of distinctions.

But what’s

the difference?

Many hands

make 

more work

(and fewer

make less).

I know

that no

one cares

about 

my woe,

(except

perhaps

a few 

of you).

Rules

may be

meant

to be

broken,

but deciphering

meaning

is confusing

enough,

much less

when more

than intended

rules 

are upended.

Am I

crazy?

Are we 

just lazy?

Or is a hazy

recollection

of the collection

of rules

more 

or less

too much

to ask?

Speech Pathology

The right

to speak

freely

and to protest

peacefully

are hallmarks

of democracy.

Yet

the threat

of actions

from aggressive

factions

in reaction

to passions

inflamed,

has sustained

fears

of violent

incidents.

When 

the former

President-

defendant

posts

quotes 

and

anecdotes 

or notes

his

rants

against

individuals

he claims

are against

him,

he goads

and corrodes—

even erodes

codes

of ethics

and possibly 

laws.

Meanwhile,

the protests

at Columbia

etcetera,

are confounding.

Sounding

off 

on campus,

while camping

out

as classes

are in session,

is practically

tradition.

But the current

condition

of free speech

transmission

raises

the proposition

that the exhibition

is potentially

physically

dangerous

to any 

of those

who might

oppose.

Many 

have mentioned

Skokie,

the would-be

Nazi

march

through a

community

of survivors,

as an example

of ugly,

yet free, 

speech.

We live

in an ugly

time of

pathology

where 

speech

is not

merely

a trigger,

but the

ammunition

for the 

dissolution

of civil

discourse.

This pathology

is antithetical

to a functional

democracy

even when 

the speech

is free. 

Do the Right Things

Now

a days,

the craze

on the right

is amazingly

cynical.

And yet

in spite

of spite

from the wing

on the right,

Speaker

Johnson

held tight.

An aid

bill 

was passed

long past

due

due to

bogus

focus

on spending,

practically

upending

alliances

with defiance

and reliance

upon

noncompliance.

In an ecosystem

governed

by climate

change,

creating

crisis

after crisis

after

crisis,

invites

us

to assess

how we 

address

this long 

term

condition.

What 

long

ago

was our

nature

has become 

abused

when 

government

was accused

of being

the problem.

Both right

and left

have

at times

been

reckless,

and feckless

leaders

or worse

have worsened

us.

But now

the right

can not

claim

righteousness

or

correctness

or validity,

much less

acceptability.

A country

of rights

abdicating

responsibilities

and civilities

creates 

possibilities

for horrible

vulnerabilities

and instabilities.

Reclaim what 

is right!

Our climate

crisis

requires

innovation

and

restoration

of what 

is right

and wrong.

The warming

of the planet

is overwhelming

us

just as 

the heated

rhetoric

in politics

is stifling

us.

Worse,

it is killing

us.

We know

what is

right,

but

complain

it became

too hard

to sustain.

Tomorrow

is Earth Day

and soon

Mother’s

Day,

sentiments

that deserve

acknowledgements

all year.

As

our democracy

needs us,

so does

Mother Nature.

The climate

crises

among us

and around

us

need us 

to do 

the right

things.

Mother

nature,

inside

and out. 

I mean,

as a verb:

to curb

what 

has been

unfathomably

disturbed.

Nature 

needs

mothering;

nurturing

to thrive.

Our twin

climate

crises

demand

each 

of us

to do 

the right

things-

even when

difficult-

to nurture

what’s

left.

Asleep at the We’ll

The cult

of personality,

regardless

of criminality

or venality,

reveals

a mentality

of those

who follow

their hollow

leader.

With a wink

and a nod,

and a facade

of leadership,

it’s actually 

worship

of dictatorship.

He feign’s

populism

while always

the victim

of a system

that seeks

to convict 

him.

Needing support

to pay 

bills

(which he won’t

pay),

he shills

to thrills

of Magaworld.

To them,

he 

is “we”;

he is their

guy

who will

defy

and deny

endlessly.

Aggressively

fomenting

without 

literally

saying,

the wink

and the nod

are  conveying.

Outside

the courthouse 

he boo 

hooed 

his plight,

lying

that his

right

to live

freely

has been 

taken

from him.

Yadda

Yadda

Yadda…

it’s all

so exhausting

and seems

to be costing

him.

Day one

of the first

trial,

he was

caught

nodding

off–

unfortunately,

off camera.

Asleep

at the

“we’ll”,

he’ll

be revealed,

but it 

remains

to be 

seen

when,

and if

it will be 

enough.

Dead Battery’s Afterlife

The battery 

of trials

of this century

are upon 

us, 

just as

we are

reminded

of the last

trial

of the century

(of the last

century).

The guy

got away

with murder,

after repeatedly

battering

his 

by then

ex wife.

A generation

has passed

since that

fiasco,

that exposed

problematic

policing,

racism,

celebrity,

privilege,

wealth,

and,

oh yeah,

what happens

to women

all the time.

Nicole Brown 

Simpson

has been

all

but forgotten

upon the death

of her batterer

and murderer.

In the 30 years

between

trials

of the centuries,

women

are worse

off.

Women’s lives

are not 

prioritized.

Any juror

with an agenda

can upend a

conviction.

The best 

prediction

may not 

detect

the one

to reject

the facts

in lieu

of that

which attracts

support

for the guilty 

one.

Battery 

doesn’t die

when 

the big lie

persists,

which requires

assistance

and insistence

on innocence

and no

remorse.

What died

with OJ

yesterday?

It seems

as though

a battery

of issues

have been

recharged.

Raising Arizona

Figuratively 

speaking…

dropping acid

on women

seems 

to be

the new

altered state.

Swallowing

the acrid 

pill

of swill

against 

the will,

now of Arizonan

people,

is despicable

yet

predictable. 

When 

a miscarriage

of justice

over miscarriage

of pregnancy

and anything

other than

unassisted

birth 

or conception

is conceived

as pro

life,

we know

it’s a lie.

Letting

women die

gets a sigh

on the court,

while citing

precedence

in the Comstock

Act

that preceded

the last

century.

The South 

has risen

again,

using 

the states’

rights

excuse

to abuse

others.

Now

the canyon

is grand—

more than

they planned—

between

those who

understand

the demand

and need

for reproductive

health

and the destructive

power

that has risen

in Arizona.

Looking Upward

Partial

was still

magnificent.

And significant

amount was seen.

Looking upward.

Eclipsed

For a moment,

the upcoming

eclipse

got eclipsed

by a

northeast

quake

which eclipsed

mideast

bombing

which eclipsed

the war 

in Ukraine

which was trumped

a while ago

by Trump

eclipsing himself

with more

crazy

each day.

This Spring

has been

anything

but silent.

This season

of birth

and renewal

has been 

cruel

to humanity

and democracy.

Meanwhile,

people

are freaking 

out

about

nature.

Clearly Marked Vehicles

Oops.

Sorry.

My bad.

Mea culpa.

Shit happens.

Collateral damage.

War is hell.

Casualties 

of war.

Fog

of war.

Misidentified

target.

A grave mistake.

A very complex 

condition.

It shouldn’t

have happened.

Starving

for power.

Starving 

for peace.

Starving

for supper.

Starving

to death

without

aid.

First, 

protect

the starving

victims

and the ones

who feed

them.

Now the world

is starving

for peace

and freedom.

And the 

basics.

For some

reason,

it’s too

difficult

to see 

clearly

marked

vehicles.