hen was the last time we had a sitting president and a former FBI director calling each other liars? And something like 100 per cent of the population seems to believe that at least one of the accused liars is a real liar. That’s the new American normal.

The Comey circus produced a holiday atmosphere in DC, with bars open for business before the live hearings came on. And the TV audience for the Comey show was an apparently impressive 19 million-plus viewers. But that’s pallid next to the presidential inauguration’s 30 million-plus, or the Super Bowl’s typical 110 million-plus in the US. Here you may insert the appropriate comment about how these numbers reflect American priorities, with football being five times more engaging than a game where the republic is an underdog. 

Laughter is a wonderful thing. It’s hard to get too much of it. But there may be something even more valuable — something that you may be better able to grasp than some of your elders.

When you’re able to see a failure in others, it can be an opportunity to spot other similar failures — even those that you may be, in some measure, sharing in.

Why do climate deniers deny? No two are identical, but a major factor for many of them seems to be, not an analysis of evidence but loyalty to a worldview. In this worldview it simply cannot be the case that people are destroying the earth. That’s not in the sacred texts. There’s no place for it in many careers or lifestyles designed around extraction, consumption, destruction, and “development” of the world. Accepting the obvious would be harder than denying it. So it is denied, or — by far preferable — simply ignored and avoided.

Saturday, June 10, 2017 - 6:30-11pm
1021 E.Broad St., Columbus, outside, weather permitting
Parking in side driveway, front or rear parking lot
Come to network and socialize with progressive friends with refreshments, music by Steve Dodge, presentation on innocent people in prison in Ohio and an open mic for performance or announcements.
Free, no RSVP required.
614-253-2571, colsfreepress@gmail.com

Friday, June 9, 10am
Ohio Statehouse
Details for the event:
Organizers will meet early at the Statehouse to prep.
10:00: Meet at the Statehouse steps, west plaza
10-10:15: sign making, distributing
10:15-?: briefing protesters of plan for event actions 
Speakers
-Kelly Janice: reading a statement from a former 3%er
-Bilal El-Yousseph: speaking on the discrimination Muslims face in the past and the political climate of today
-Other speakers TBD
?- Militia arrives and plan takes effect


On the 9th, the 3%ers are planning a rally to protect American rights. They hide under the guise of men and women that want to protect everyone and their freedoms. If you dig a little deeper into the members, you will see they are nothing but another racist group trying to protect ONLY the rights of themselves and those like them. We must join together and show them that we will not stand for hate in Columbus. Join us to counter the event planned by the alt-right gun-toting 3%ers and their friends. We must disrupt their message by spreading one of our own, standing in solidarity.

There has been a lot of media coverage mostly written by Israelis or American Jews regarding Israel’s “victory” fifty years ago during the so-called Six Days War directed against its Arab neighbors but I have yet to see an account that mentions the fate of the U.S.S. Liberty. Nevertheless, the Liberty is not forgotten. This Thursday at noon at Arlington National Cemetery there will be a small gathering for the annual coming together with the survivors and friends of the most decorated ship in the history of the U.S. Navy, a victim of a particularly brutal and unprovoked attack by Israel that has been covered up for half a century by the powers that be in Washington.