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Elvis Never Left the Building: IMAX Film Review Of EPiC (Elvis Presley in Concert)
I was not sure what headline to give this column. I had come up with a few. Elvis Was Always Too Big For Small Screens A Giant Returns To The Giant Screen Elvis: Forget The Jumpsuit Stereotype That last idea was on my mind as James, my husband, even after 25 years of being the… Continue reading
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SOTU: Why Aren’t Donald Trump’s Supporters Ecstatic Right Now?
One might assume that on the day of President Trump’s State of the Union address—one full year into his second term—his supporters would be basking in the warm glow of triumph. After all, this is the moment they fought for. The victory they insisted would restore greatness, stability, and a kind of mythic national order.… Continue reading
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The Unthinkable At Madison East High School
I was having a late lunch today, and a news story on television made me feel less like eating. Seriously. A Madison mother is demanding accountability after she says staff at Madison East High School fed her autistic son dog food instead of a school lunch. Debra Hawkes says her 15-year-old son Jaden, a freshman… Continue reading
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Gregory Humphrey’s Caffeinated Politics Is On Substack
You can also read Caffeinated Politics on Substack. Promoting and finding the various niches where people seek information and read, while interesting, can also be a bit daunting. While social media is interesting and technology is remarkable, I find it very difficult to adapt to short remarks and a set number of characters. I write… Continue reading
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Two Madison Teenagers Dead From Gun Violence, We Know Why It Happened
Tragic in every sense of the word. Even more tragic is that this type of story about gun violence is all too common. The teen murder-suicide on Madison’s East Side in which a 16-year-old died from his injuries Friday, the day after a 19-year-old man shot him and then killed himself. The 16-year-old was close… Continue reading
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Black History Vital To Understanding The American Story
I read the following segment in Empire of Liberty by David Reynolds and took a photo of a few paragraphs. It is a telling reminder of what our past looked like, felt like, and was like. This account follows the outbreak of World War II. I had copied that historical nugget and kept it in… Continue reading
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Supreme Court, Third Branch Of Government, Not To Be A Loyal Puppet For Autocratic Absurdity
Donald Trump views the Justice Department as his department of personal lawyers. (They are not any president’s lawyers.) He was outraged when he could not control Jeff Sessions, his attorney general, in 2017. Today, Trump filled his diaper to the brim on national television as he berated and trashed the Supreme Court. It was his… Continue reading
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Court Rules Donald Trump Is Not a Tariff Vending Machine
I was wrong. I had predicted that the Supreme Court, while ruling that a president does not have the authority to hijack tariff-making policy through the executive branch, would hand down a 5-4 decision. I had Justice Gorsuch with the conservative minority on the bench. As we know, he joined with the majority, a decision… Continue reading
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The First Amendment Doesn’t Need Donald Trump As A Babysitter
This is what I read today, and then noticed a couple of friends on my email list were as irritated as I was over this latest example of fascist actions taking hold in Washington, D.C. Why Stephen Colbert needed to tape an opener for last night’s “Late Show” is simply galling. The FCC ordered CBS… Continue reading
Caffeinated Politics
Opinions And Musings By Gregory Humphrey. "Why should I not learn something new every day, and, if I can, shine a light into the eye of my heart?" Mirza Saleh
Caffeinated Politics 