Hunter Biden on the stand? Fine. Right after Nikki Haley.
The Boeing 737 Max is was a well-documented failure of corporate governing responsibility. After the 2001 move of headquarters from Seattle to Chicago, and the 2011 elevation by the Boeing Board of...
View ArticleScrewed. Betrayed, sold out, deceived. And it’s all my fault.
I’m here to offer a little prognostication. This pandemic will end with a whimper, and soon, too. Either because it will turn out it can’t abide high UV levels and it is done in by that, or Silent...
View ArticleZero at the bone: government as business
Can we please, at long last, drive a stake through the heart of the zombie fiction that government should—or even can—be run like a business?For the last 30 years and more, this bad brown acid has been...
View ArticleWe should wish for more letters of resignation, up and down the board
In light of the principled resignation of the under secretary of defense, and the shameful failure of GOP congresspersons/senators to acknowledge even the reality of what happened at Lafayette Park, I...
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OK, Mississippi, the flag is gone. Now, about that license plate.
What with the Stars’n’Bars flag being made unwelcome, even by NASCAR, and statues coming down, and social media getting all squiggly about the particular ways certain people’s words accidentally come...
View ArticleMSNBC host frets needlessly about comparing 2016, 2020 state polls
On Friday night, MSNBC’s Ari Melber issued a warning. Sure, he said, the Republicans are nervous about the election. But Democrats should be worrying too. Why should we be nervous? Because state...
View Articlethe last three paragraphs of Biden's inaugural address
“…and that is what we intend to do, my fellow Americans, with your help and the grace of God.[pauses]“Now I would like to take a moment to address my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. A stark...
View ArticleSomeone's got to do some time
We all are hoping this turns out for the good. We’d like to wake up January 21 to find ourselves in a nation whose actions reflect its ideals. A nation suffused with democracy, “the feeling of...
View ArticleI would like to hear this on the floor of the House
Some representative might say, about our struggle against our own strain of fascism, what Churchill said to the House of Commons.“I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this...
View ArticleFaith? Faith? What?
Christmas Eve one year, we went to friends’ house for some cheer. At the end of the evening, they loaded me up with a basket full of jars of pickles, packages of crackers and cheese, and a bottle of...
View ArticleRon DeSantis--war criminal?
The March issue of Harper’sprints the transcript of a podcast containing a dialogue between Mike Prysner, an Iraqi war veteran, and Mansur Ahmad Saad al-Dayfi, a former detainee at Guantanamo,...
View ArticleWhat do you know, a Republican Texas legislator has trouble living up to his...
Just when you guess the laws of physics would prevent the complete collapse of conservatism into a singularity of hypocrisy, theft, and vandalism, along comes Texas to say to physics, “Hold my...
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