Last Wednesday was the 75th anniversary of the sinking of the U.S.S Indianapolis, a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser sunk by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945 after delivering the first U.S. atomic bomb to an isolated Pacific island air base. It is a grim story, a primer for abject failure. Among the engaging legends […]
The New York Times on Monday shared the fate of a U.S. Naval Academy graduate in Portland, Ore., who wished to discover the identity of the men behind the faceless, robotic players in camouflage and body armor currently roughing up Portland’s protestors. The thugs are grabbing Americans in the dark of night and locking them […]
Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, wrote a scathing book with a very long title about her Uncle Donald, scion of her grandfather Freddie’s considerable fortune and 45th president of the United States of America. The highlights have already been shared and the low lights, the larger balance of her narrative, are tarnished by the confused […]
Donald Trump spent Monday morning spinning ridiculous tales on TV about his remarkable ability to save the nation from itself. He would be better served focusing on how he is going to extricate himself from the hell he has created. Trump’s enablers are probably remembering when plausible deniability still had some relevance in the political […]
The latest iteration of Teflon Don avoiding damnation for treason materialized amid a week of denials. He claimed he wasn’t informed that his Russian buddy, Vladimir Putin, was paying bounties to Taliban assassins to kill American and British troops in Afghanistan. Trump said he wasn’t briefed. Even if he was, he didn’t believe it. American […]
“Soldierin’ and policin’ — they ain’t the same thing.” — Maj. Howard Colvin, “The Wire,” Season 3, Episode 10 Sometimes the best of intentions turns into something ugly. The U.S. Department of Defense’s Section 1033 program, which provides guns and other excess military equipment to local law enforcement agencies, ranks high among the many well-intentioned law-and-order […]
Who would have thought George Floyd, a black man murdered by police in Minneapolis, would spark a revolt against Donald Trump by three generations of retired American generals who have honorably served our country since the Vietnam War. The retired generals’ decisions to speak out against Trump is not without possible personal liability. Retired officers […]
Donald J. Trump wants to add the anti-fascist anarchists of the loosely knit, poorly defined Antifa political movement to America’s international terrorist list (Antifa is shorthand for anti-fascist). Trump made his desire known last week the morning after hiding in a subterranean White House bunker until Secret Service told him it was safe to come […]
A headline in The Washington Post on Wednesday screamed, “Armed militia helped a Michigan barbershop open, a coronavirus defiance that puts Republican lawmakers in a bind.” Donald J. Trump’s incessant drum beating has reached enough disenfranchised fools with guns seeking liberation from frustrations they can’t otherwise escape. In their own bizarre way, the raging boys […]
Mother Nature apparently doesn’t like the way things are going in the world at the moment and banded together with irresistible karma to take a whack at Donald J. Trump, the original source of most of the chaos in the world today. It seems the Fates selected a close adviser inside Trump’s White House to […]
A pandemic provides writers with abundant food for thought. Mix it with anything Trumpian and it is suddenly a penny novel. By Webster’s definition, uttering something insensitive is crass, but there’s a certain charm to being tactless, how else could Trump survive? When everything slows down, crassness and insensitivity seem to rise. “What’s the f#%kin’ […]
“Hydroxychloroquine, I don’t know,” Trump said on his evening dog-and-pony show a few days ago. “It’s looking like it’s having some good results. I hope that, that would be a phenomenal thing.” It could be incredible. In Oregon, 13 veterans treated in part with the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine recovered from COVID-19, including a 104-year old […]
This story was going to be about Donald Trump’s new persona. He tried being caring and humble for a few minutes in a daily broadcast featuring dead bodies being loaded into the refrigerated trailer of an 18-wheeler at the Elmhurst Medical Center. That’s all it took for the news media to speculate that Trump was […]
Donald Trump’s favorite lap dog, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), landed in the doghouse instead of the White House last week when Democrats, during his unregulated throw-money-at-industry pandemic responses, discovered his bark was worse than his bite. Instead of earning a special snack for guiding his Republican sheep, Mitch received a brutal smackdown that […]
Donald Trump was at his putrid finest on television over the weekend, a double-talking huckster babbling with incoherency about his obvious and repeated mistakes in the days before. Meanwhile, the do-nothing Senate is deadlocked on a $2 trillion relief bill so full of goodies for Trump’s buddies, it could raise the dead. The only thing […]
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance – Samuel Johnson, British writer/thinker Great minds think alike and poor ones think barely at all. Among the former are wartime American presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR was president when pre-World War Two totalitarian warmongers threatened all of the world’s […]
Trillion dollar Pentagon budgets are manna from heaven for the military-industrial complex, but not so much for ordinary Americans. When armed forces Commander-In-Chief Donald Trump promised on television that the military was standing by to provide massive medical aid, he must have been thinking about something else. “The Department of Defense is ready, willing and […]
Thursday was a bad day for everyone, including Donald Trump. Hospitals, local governments, the transportation industry and even major league sports are hanging on the precipice waiting for answers to whether they should jump or simply wait to fall. In this country, Trump is the go-to man without a clue, despite keeping Vice President Mike […]
Erik Prince is the Comte de Rochefort of Trumplandia, one of the secretive evil geniuses behind the gilded throne of Donald the First. Like the ignoble character in French author Alexandre Dumas’ brilliant “The Three Musketeers,” Prince reappears in Trumplandia from time to time, committing acts of skullduggery that benefit his unbalanced benefactor. Of late, […]
A lot of wars are going on these days, and almost all of them find Donald Trump mired in the middle, sputtering about things for which he hasn’t got a clue. The biggest war at the moment is the coronavirus epidemic, slowly revealing whether it will kill thousands or millions before Mother Nature makes a […]
