I’m saying the scary parts out loud that everyone knows in their heart of hearts: There will be Trumpism after Trump. I don’t mean in the event that — God forbid! — he wins reelection. No, I mean even if Donald Trump loses in November. No matter what. There are
Via driftglass [https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2020/06/puritopian-see-it-learn-it-use-it-in.html] (whom you should be reading), I learned a new word today: puritopian. It’s actually an entry in the Urban Dictionary [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Puritopian]. I added the word Progressive to it, because I suspect there
Aaron Smith notes: “I’m not sure what the Louisville Metro guidelines are for junk set out in Cherokee Triangle, but hopefully they’ll make an exception.” [https://www.forwardky.com/content/images/wordpress/2020/06/Castleman.jpg]The Castleman statue’s final disposition (editorial cartoon by Aaron Smith. All
Aaron Smith obtained a copy of the classified 2020 Threat Assessment Guide from the DOJ. It’s pretty simple, and they’ve obviously been following it. [https://www.forwardky.com/content/images/wordpress/2020/06/Threat-Assessment.jpg]© 2020 by Aaron Smith. All rights reserved.
Rep. Savannah Maddox has sown the wind, and is reaping the whirlwind. Let me come to her defense. Partially. :: Rep. Maddox is a Tea-Party Republican state rep from Grant County. She has been making a name for herself (good or bad) for some time by her actions and her statements,
We keep hearing Governor Beshear and others refer to the coming “new normal.” But outside of some comments from Beshear himself, mostly about masks, we’re not sure just what that means. In fact, it seems some people, perhaps MANY people, think we’re going to go back to how
In these days of social media, political spin, and lies told in public-relations-speak, it’s more important than ever that we don’t allow ourselves to be fooled or led astray. In other words, it’s important that we not get played. I know whereof I speak. For much of
This is the second in a five(?)-part series laying out some facts and opinions about Kentuckians and the COVID-19 epidemic. You can read the first article here [https://forwardky.com/dear-kentuckians-get-these-facts-straight/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calling out the Stupid I regularly read a web site called “Zandar Versus the Stupid [http://zandarvts.
Years ago I read a book about military decision-making, and the author made a point I have never forgotten: the difference between “good decisions” and “right decisions.” * A good decision means you made the best decision you could at the time, given the knowledge you had at the time and
If you go to the state Capitol, take your gun. But for God’s sake, don’t take a wrench. I tried. I also brought along a whole slew of mildly, barely, how-in-the-world-are-you-going-to-use-that-to-hurt-someone type objects designed to test our state Capitol security. My long-dead grandfather’s Craftsman plumber’s wrench
It’s very clear – Republicans don’t want you to vote. To be more specific, Republicans don’t want certain people to vote. This includes the poor, minorities, LGBTQ, the disabled, and college students. Why? Because those groups tend to vote Democratic, often by large margins. In fact, as our
There’s a meme making the rounds as we come up to the election. It references the recent news that the number of people in the Kentucky workforce is the greatest it’s ever been, and then goes on to say “This is what happens when you have a Republican
Every year about this time, the Kentucky Farm Bureau has their annual breakfast at the KY State Fair. And every year about this time, we ask a simple question: Why is the Farm Bureau so concerned about non-farm issues? And even more: Why does the Farm Bureau hate gay people,
Ian Pollock spends most of his days in a restaurant kitchen, calling out orders to a line of cooks. The job requires good communication and organization, skills Pollock has learned over a decade in the business. It pays $12 an hour, well above Kentucky’s minimum wage of $7.25.
Recently, I wrote an editorial [https://forwardky.com/in-kentucky-its-easier-to-hunt-humans-than-to-hunt-deer/] comparing the requirements that are placed on hunters with the lack of requirements placed on gun ownership. As I expected, it caused a flurry of comments, most of which were allowed even though they strongly disagreed with the article. (All new
As Americans continue to fight over gun safety laws, even as we kill each other at increasing rates, it struck me that we have no problem regulating the hunting of wildlife. In fact, after I looked into it, I realized that with the recent loosening of gun laws by the
