Tom Wendel

Billionaires and megacorporations dominating every sector of our economy and flooding campaign cash to conservatives who cut their taxes and shaft working class Americans should be illegal. Wait. It is illegal. We have antitrust laws and regulations to prevent it. They’re just not being enforced.

“Every billionaire is a policy failure. Every billionaire is a sign of an economy that is failing the majority. It is time to build a more equal world, where both poverty and extreme wealth are consigned to the history books once and for all.” Dan Riffle

We’ve been distracted by the culture wars and ignored the real issue- class warfare. Working class Americans struggle to pay for housing, food, healthcare, and education while billionaires can spend a million dollars every waking hour and never run out of money, even if they never make another dime.

Elon Musk could live to 90 and never make another dime, spending $5 million every waking hour. How is that justifiable?

A billion dollars a year is $500,000 an hour. In what world does that make sense?

Know that Amy Acton’s mother lost custody of her daughter and son when she chose to stay with her husband after he was indicted on charges of raping Amy. A candidate who uses a mother like that for an attack ad shouldn’t be trusted to hold public office (or any office for that matter).

The party of freedom and law enforcement. Why isn’t this crime being prosecuted?

>999 words #Sedona #CathedralRock

The Beat tour at Celebrity Theater in Phoenix last night- Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Steve Vai, and Terry Bozzio playing King Crimson music of the early 80’s. A higher level of musicianship is hard to find.

Deportations aren’t only driving up prices on food, housing, etc. They’ll cost Social Security recipients about $2000 a year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Huffy single speed beach bike custom built by at the factory in my hometown of Celina, OH, by my Mother in 1986

Full double rainbow from the patio. Sedona, AZ. Lower Oak Creek looking east with Cathedral Rock to the left.

The Roman Agora at Athens with the Acropolis as a backdrop

The Lion Gate at Mycenae, Peloponnese, Greece

From my patio, Sedona, AZ. Above lower Oak Creek looking east

Los Frailes, Baja California Sur, Mexico Free access. No electricity. No water. No toilets. Just a pristine beach under a blazing Sun.

Lake Bled, Slovenia

On the Soca River near Kobarid, Slovenia

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Brela, Croatia. A few weeks into a road trip, we opted for a place to stop moving and relax. This town on the Adriatic was perfect!

Diocletian’s Palace, Split, Croatia

Chaco Canyon National Cultural Park: my happy place

Walking up Mt. Adams, WA

Trump’s 23 failed business ventures so far (listed below). Who still believes this guy knows what the hell he’s doing? Current failure: POTUS He’s never been anything but a con man. Don the Con.

If you can’t even successfully repair a shallow pool, are you really a capable real estate developer? And if you fail at that, are you capable of leading the most powerful and affluent nation in history?

From “The Second Coming”, W. B. Yeats “… somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs ... … And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

Agassiz Peak (13,899’) above Bishop Pass in the Sierra Nevada, Kings Canyon National Park, CA

Sitting on a glacial erratic at Roosevelt Point above the Yosemite Valley when a crow (symbol of change) decided to make a timely appearance and cast a shadow. Yosemite National Park

25 years ago today I was living in Manhattan and working there as an emergency physician. The department where I worked, Beth Israel Medical Center, was the third closest to the WTC. After a brief flurry of activity we stood well manned and waiting as the arrival of survivors never occurred.

The Twelve Apostles, Capetown, South Africa

The Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

McCloud River, Middle Falls, CA

Precipice Lake, Sequoia National Park

Lamanai Archaeological Reserve, Belize

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone from above the falls

The Nazis stole it. We need to steal it back.

The Sea Ranch, CA

Near Ely, NV, and Great Basin National Park

Half Dome from Olmsted Point, Yosemite National Park, CA

View from Bear Mountain, Sedona, AZ

McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park, CA

Devil’s Postpile National Monument, CA

Lake Sabrina, Sierra Nevada, CA

Horsetail Falls on Pyramid Creek, Desolation Wilderness, CA

Rock art panel, Oak Creek, Coconino National Forest

Vernal Falls from the Mist Trail, Yosemite National Park

View of Cloud’s Rest (distant) with glacial erratics (foreground) near Olmsted Point, Yosemite National Park