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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 20
Ice makes roads dangerous while ICE threatens lives. The Kentucky Legislature at its worst. National videoconferencing, and Bluegrass state musicians win awards. Some of the topics we discuss: Got thoughts about letting 18 year olds conceal carry? KY Legislature doesn’t want to hear them. Kentucky GOP senators make public education a cornerstone of their priority…
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Apology to Trump-supporting family and friends
Jim Sterba, my former colleague at The Wall Street Journal, posted this on Facebook: I owe my Trump-supporting family and friends an apology. I’ve been critical of the Trump presidency and am still exhausted from the experience. But to be fair, President Trump wasn’t that bad, other than when: He incited an insurrection against the…
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Millions of women don’t know GOP has stolen their votes
This has been noted for almost a year, but why do we not hear screams of outrage from women across America? (Via Substack): The Republican Senate will pass the SAVE Act at the midnight hour before the midterms, and tens of millions of women will discover their names don’t match their birth certificates when fixing…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 19
A discussion on the health, education and human-services failures we’re seeing in Kentucky. How our Democratic politicians are failing us, and a little sports talk at the end! Some of the topics we discuss: Lexington neighborhood littered with KKK fliers ahead of MLK Jr. downtown march Far fewer people buy Obamacare coverage as insurance premiums…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 18
Thoughts for the New Year, what we did for the holidays, how to join the resistance in the Bluegrass and how war, abortion and healthcare affect Kentuckians. Our discussion included: This Kentucky General Assembly is going to be very different for the public Ky.’s draconian abortion law leads to murder charge Kentucky politicians discuss U.S. strike…
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Ky.’s draconian abortion law leads to murder charge
A woman ended her pregnancy in Kentucky. The aftermath was inevitable, because MAGAts say women have no rights (from the Guardian): A Kentucky woman is facing multiple criminal charges after she allegedly induced her own abortion using medication. Kentucky state police arrested the woman, Melinda S Spencer, 35, on charges of fetal homicide in the first degree,…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 16
Our Thanksgiving holiday tempered by ICE appeasement (the reason we can’t trust our elected officials), political candidates don’t understand what offices they should seek, dealing with wealth and affordability, a pitch for college sports and how to show support for mutual aid. Information sources for this week’s podcast include: Paul Krugman explains the affordability crisis…
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Rand Paul wants women to die
We have to deal daily with the insanity of MAGA morons whose leaders are taking away access to healthcare and followers who want to control what women do with their bodies. From Kentucky Lantern: Anti-abortion organizations and Republican elected officials are searching for more ways to prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving federal resources after congressional…
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Bluegrass ballots: Who’s in?
An interesting development in today’s CJ: Former Kentucky State Representative and U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker (pictured above) is considering another Senate run in 2026, according to a Nov. 26 social media post. In the Facebook post, Booker acknowledged calls for him to run for the Senate seat that U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, a Republican who was…
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Massie gets final vote to release Epstein files
I’m not sure if this is the right interpretation for this, but this is the way the CJ presents it: Republican Rep. Thomas Massie’s charge to release the Epstein files is making significant movement. A discharge petition spearheaded by Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-California, secured its 218th signature on Nov. 12, a crucial step to force…
