A sobering conversation with a lot of folks I listen to.

The nativist bigots who can trace their American credentials to the Mayflower are an odious bunch. But those who are trying to pull the ladder up behind them.

One hundred and forty years ago, men and women fought against a tyrannical government and won their freedom. It seems today that those who hate America most are the terrorists and would-be tyrants within.

This should be required reading in every school room in this country because the pretty, diluted, Texas Department of Education whitewashed-approved version isn’t making it into our kid’s heads apparently.

Never “just” a musician – though that would have been enough – Bowie continued to show a better way of expressing yourself and treating each other as whole people.