"capo dei capi"- a Mafioso term, boss of bosses- One of the puzzling enigmas about the Founding Fathers (Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Adams, Madison)  is why they deferred to Washington? He was not a particularly great general; in retrospect he seems dull, pedestrian and aloof(his best friend was his slave). He literally botched the New York campaign against Howe...why wasn't he fired then? Or at Valley Forge? Why did they need him? Why would the Revolution need an incompetent General? He certainly was not a Cromwell.....but then again, maybe he was. The Revolution needed Washington because he was a mean s.o.b......in fact, this Blogger believes, he was the meanest of all the Founding Fathers. They deferred to him, because they were afraid of him. The incident revealing Washington's meanness  was the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny.  There was a mutiny among the Pennsylvania troops; Washington crushed it, without too much effort. He then ordered the court martial of th

  This Blogger posits that 1776 is more important than 1619 to the American Origin Story, because there was a manifested Divine Intervention in 1776, and it was not the Declaration of Independence; it was the ‘DIVINE  FOG.”   The real debate should be cosmological, why was God on the side of the Americans during the Revolutionary War? Why was God on the side of slave holding, bloody white males, reeking of  toxic patriarchy?   The answer to that question is speculation above this Blogger's pay grade. How do we know that God was on the side of toxic American patriarchs?   The DIVINE FOG.   George Washington was a mediocre General at best, not the worst American General ever, that dubious honor is shared by Mark Clark, our General in Italy during World War II, and Ambrose Burnside, the Butcher of Fredericksburg, during the Civil War. For you Southern boys, this Blogger includes John Bell Hood.   Washington is a notch above them. He is brave, understands the rudiments, but he is not t

THE NEW YORK TIMES had a recent article about Joe Biden bringing a liberal Catholic destiny with him to the White     House. Seemingly Joe Biden intends to get America back into a favorable standing with God and Jesus, and get the Republic on the right side of History by amassing a plethora of good deeds: succoring the refugee, the asylum seeker, the illegal alien, the migrant, the transgender, women of color, women of no color, Gays, Blacks, Muslims, Hispanics, Latinx, Asians,     and Etruscans. He will shower them with good deeds, and the Republic will be saved; he hopes. Mr. Biden’s Liberal, Pope Francis’ approach to America puts America right back into the Reformation. This is ample evidence, in this Blogger’s opinion, in fact, there is enough empirical evidence in America’s History, to suggest that America is Protestant in more ways than have ever been dreamt of in Mr. Biden’s philosophy. America has dispensed more bad deeds than good deeds in its History: slavery, genocide, lynch