Donald Trump and his dear friend Vladimir Putin are once again running neck-and-neck to inflame as many extremists and like-minded loonies they can round up to fuel their increasingly desperate battles for personal survival. MAGA Man intentionally exacerbated the dreadful situation in eastern Europe after the Russian invasion of Ukraine by describing Putin’s unprovoked invasion […]

Spies, Lies and the Drifting Grifter The steely-eyed counterintelligence G-man with the panache of Sam Spade has been dealt a lousy hand. Last week, rumors started surfacing about sold out American spies. Now, our hero’s job is to find out if our country’s secrets are up for sale. The CIA’s counterintelligence center reported dozens of […]

With the Golden Grifter crouching behind a legal wall he hopes will withstand the flood of recriminations soon coming his way, I’m reminded of an old saying in post-World War II Germany, “Alles kaput.” We have a little time to kill before the House January 6 Committee reconvenes or the former president is hauled before […]

The Dame from Nowhere The bureau’s slumping reincarnation of Sam Spade went to his Georgetown flat last Thursday night feeling smug. The Golden Grifter was finally cornered. Not even that silver-tongued devil himself could finally duck the boxes of secrets he’d been hiding. Agent S was hoping for some down time with the long-legged dame […]

The Grifter’s Deadly Game Not long after the Golden Grifter’s pink dump in Palm Beach was flopped by the bureau, our Sam Spade doppelganger who is chasing him was summoned to headquarters. In a soundproof room, the rock-jawed G-man is informed that the Grifter hired several groups of ultra-right fascist thugs to lead the sheep […]

The rock-jawed Sam Spade doppelganger, Agent S, is in a reflective mood. The Golden Grifter is on the move, leaving a trail of verbose inanities in his wake. Big dogs at the Justice Department are growling for Agent S and his faceless band of talented sleuths to help close in on the most dangerous man […]

Dashiell Hammett would be proud. Anybody who ever watched a TV episode of Perry Mason, read Hammett’s books or watched “The Maltese Falcon,” was touched by him. The world was better place when hard-boiled Sam Spade, “The Thin Man’s” debonair Nick and Nora Charles, and comic strip character “Secret Agent X-9” brought colorful culprits to […]

Our country is in the doldrums. The ancient mariner’s term for unanticipated stretches of light wind also applies to periods of contemporary economic stagnation. Stagnation, however, is not recession, just as doldrums are not a permanent predicament. The Fed and the laws of supply and demand are already conspiring to bring down prices. America is […]

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has reportedly suggested that Social Security and Medicare be eliminated as federal entitlement programs, instead becoming discretionary programs approved annually by Congress. It is outside the scope of this article to point out that Johnson remains one of Trump’s most avid supporters and Big Lie tellers.   Imagine Johnson’s proposal for […]

For better or worse, slamming President Joe Biden is popular these days. Almost three out of four Americans reportedly think our country needs someone else running it. If his popularity continues to tank, he will end up like Jimmy Carter, beloved and vilified in the same breath. I remember that feeling. I got it bad […]

Before being dubbed Fistpump McRunpants by fellow Republican Congressman Adam Kitziner (R) Illinois., for running away from rioters during the failed Jan 6. 2021 insurrection, Josh Hawley was a phony from Missouri whose glib bullshit made him the Show Me State’s junior senator. After graduating from Stanford University in 2002 and Yale Law in 2006, […]

If Donald J. Trump is somehow re-elected president in 2024, he will always be within an arm’s reach of starting a nuclear war. Given his publicly witnessed and revealed penchant for temper tantrums and irrational behavior, his addiction to the loony fringe of American life, and his narcissistic personality, doing so cannot be dismissed. In […]

Monday was the 246th anniversary of American freedom for all. The concept isn’t working out so well these days. The nation’s most patriotic holiday was celebrated during an inauspicious beginning to the year, a year that truly defines what America has become. Abortion, gun ownership, wars, inflation, climate change, immigration, women’s right to privacy, and […]