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H.L. spent Memorial Day weekend with living family and long deceased parents.  Dad a waist gunner and bombardier in two of Rosie the Riveter’s B-24 Liberator Bombers.  Mom a canteen girl who helped establish a USO in Clovis, New Mexico but met Dad on West 44th Street...

After Parkland, in stand your ground Florida and the Santa Fe Massacre in the have it your way (open and/or concealed carry) Lone Star state, the gun cult doubled and redoubled down.  Armed guards at both schools weren’t enough.  More guns packed by more teachers were...

“Say Anything” was a great John Cusack flick.  Among many reasons was the line that billed it as a “Lloyd Meets Girl Movie.”  Lloyd Dobler said any and everything and won the love of the objectively unreachable and out of his class, Diane Court played by Ione Skye. In...

Reporting on the slobbering greeting lavished on the president by the Conservative Political Action Convention last week, NPR Washington Desk and Religion correspondent Ron Elving  giggled that it was “as if [Trump] were Moses and all the prophets.”  Perfectly apt...

The stakes in the 2018 congressional elections are greatest of any in midterm memory.  If Democrats can thread the needle and regain control of the Senate, the next Gorsuch-like abomination can be prevented.  The multi-faceted damage his votes and opinions will...

Welcome back to Hopelessly Liberal after its long winter nap. Last year we tried to write about the “#MeToo movement” but each time HL’s advisory board vetoed the post.  The sage and prescient advice was that the exemplars written about (Kevin Spacey was one, Bush 41...