by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy
While at Yale University, JD Vance met future wife Usha Chilukuri who has law clerked for such justices as Kavanaugh and Roberts. White there, the pair collaborated to organize a discussion group focused on the topic, "social decline in white America." One can guess that Vance’s best-selling book resulted in part from this study.
Word is, JD Vance converted
by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good
In case you missed it: The Guardian’s article concerning author-essayist-journalist George Orwell (nee Eric Blair) and his travails while writing his disturbingly prescient novel 1984 is the most enlightening account of the events leading up to the novel that I’ve ever run across. Do check it out if you haven’t.
Yet admittedly, I have sometimes
by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good
In case you missed it: The Guardian’s article concerning author-essayist-journalist George Orwell (nee Eric Blair) and his travails while writing his disturbingly prescient novel 1984 is the most enlightening account of the events leading up to the novel that I’ve ever run across. Do check it out if you haven’t.
Yet admittedly, I have sometimes
by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy
When the Election Interference trial of D. Trump gavels back ij session on Monday May 13, 2024, it is expected that former Trump employee Michael Cohen will testify. Perhaps this will not be on Monday, but during the week since the prosecution announced on Friday that they have only two more witnesses to call.
Now I have only a noon natal horoscope in my
No Thumb on the Scale But Ketchup On the Wall
by Jude Cowell
In the Manhattan courtroom of Judge Juan Marchan this week, Mr. Trump is finding it quite impossible to put his thumb on the Scales of Justice as he has always managed to do. Glowering, frowning, staring pointedly, and napping certainly haven’t worked for his nibs. No jury member was seated yesterday but about 50 of them were excused.
A
Homeland Security an Entity of Revenge
by Jude Cowell
Several moons ago on Jude’s Threshold, my WordPress blog, I published a Homeland Security Department Horoscope set for November 25, 2002 1:44 pm est Washington DC with 27Pis29 rising. Since then I’ve discovered an alternate timing for the entity in my files of 1:46 pm est with 28Pis19 rising and 29Sag05 at Goal Point (‘MC’, at "The Pope
by Jude Cowell, Protestant and partisan for democracy
With the traditional separation between church and state under serious attack in America, the machinations of certain evangelicals and Christian Nationalist operatives are in the news each day as they envision America becoming a restrictive, paternalistic theocracy.
Along those lines, below is an interesting horoscope showing the planets’
by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy over fascism
From the Wikipedia page of Republican congress member Elise Stefanik we learn that she was born July 2, 1984 in Albany, New York, with Sun in Cancer, Moon in either Leo or Virgo, and under the restrictive rays of a 4 North Solar Eclipse.
So below, without a known birth hour and a mispelled surname (mea culpa!), is what little I can ascertain
by Jude Cowell
March 26, 2022
As you’ve undoubtedly heard, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been released from Sibley Memorial Hospital as of Friday March 25, 2022 after a week’s stay. Justice Thomas was reportedly admitted on Friday March 18th with "flu-like symptoms" and treated for "an infection". With his natal horoscope accurately timed (RR: AA), we can point out that his natal
by Jude Cowell
Back in the day, a gaggle of anti-Civil-Rights Southerners, known as the Dixiecrats, met in Birmingham, Alabama and on July 17, 1948 nominated South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond for president and Mississippi Gov. Fielding L. Wright for vice president. The Truman and Democratic Party programs supporting Civil Rights for the disenfrachised victims of our country had enraged them,