Wade Rathke:

New Orleans       In the United States now we wait and watch while President Trump stoops to historically new lows in trying to subvert the vote of the people and resist the inevitable that he lost the election to Biden at the Electoral College and by a more than a five million vote drubbing.  Having …

New Orleans      Hipsters are absolutely not taking over the world, but it’s hard not to find them almost all over the world.  MoveHub, an international shipping company got some free marketing buzz by putting out a “hipster index” over the last couple of years.  They use five factors:  coffee shops, record stores, tattoo parlors, …

New Orleans      The Trump meltdown is going from the dangerous to the ridiculous to the absurd now, and then back again to the dangerous.  Everyone knows Trump has lost, but the foot dragging of sycophants fearful of tweeting reprisals continues to attempt to try to disguise the fact that the emperor no longer has …

New Orleans     Ben Smith, formerly of Politico, joined the New York Times over the last year as their media columnist and has quickly become a must-read in my book.  His sources are amazing, his scoops unique, and his perspective wide-ranging and invaluable.  The Times seems to know this, not only because they give him …

New Orleans      In a moment of youthful recklessness more than fifty years ago, I allowed myself to get into one of those dangerous political conversations with the father of a woman I was seeing.  He was a good, decent guy and Republican to the core, even in those days when Louisiana was deep, deep …

Pearl River     The Monday Night Football expression that “it’s not over until the fat lady sings,” has thankfully been retired given the lack of appreciation for opera in our current culture and the increasing sensitivity towards different body types, thanks goodness.  Nonetheless, despite all of the theories, conjectures, and people waking up screaming in the […]

New Orleans       Breaking away from a meeting with our new tenant organizers at a table in front of Publix grocery store in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, I had to find a place quiet enough to talk to Rosemarie Day about her take on expanding universal healthcare on Wade’s World . Walking down an […]

Atlanta    It took five hours and half a tank of gas for me and two organizers for the ACORN Tenants Union in Atlanta to visit more than a dozen apartment complexes in five different counties around metro Atlanta and the perimeter.  The day had started in misty fog but ended in clear skies, bright sunlight, […]

Atlanta       Attorney General Barr, Senator Lindsay Graham and other Republican hardline Trump apologists made quite a bit of a story told by a postal worker in Pennsylvania that he had overheard co-workers discussing ways to backdate ballots received late, so that they would be counted in the recent US presidential election.  The egg is […]

Chicago          Understand me clearly.  I was lucky.  I had a dawn run from Columbus to Chicago and then onto Atlanta in the weirdness of travel during the pandemic.  It made sense to stay as close to the airport as possible, and I ended up at a Hampton Inn, now a Hilton property, there between the […]