There are a lot of reasons to despise Donald Trump, but everyone who voted against him probably has one glaring issue that tops their list. Maybe for you it was something else, but for me it was racism. Once Trump made his call for a Great Wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, I didn’t need to […]
So, faced with the prospect of nuclear annihilation, and with a second massive hurricane chugging resolutely toward our collective poop chute, what does Donnie do? Well, he decides the time is right to throw some 800,000 innocent Dreamers under the bus. Yeah, sounds about right, because there’s really nothing more important than that. You’ve heard about […]
I don’t normally parse another person’s apology. If I’m the victim of wrongdoing and the perpetrator says he’s sorry, I won’t typically pick it apart, examining it word for word before deciding whether all the bases have been covered. During normal times, an apology is an apology, and 99 times out of a hundred, I’ll […]
OUR NATIONAL SHAME
Where nuclear holocaust is concerned, this ain’t my first rodeo, though at 6-years-old during the Cuban Missile Crisis, I didn’t understand until much later just how closely I’d come to being vaporized. I do remember the drills, and if you’re of a certain age, I’m sure you do, too. Mrs. Moreland marched the first-graders out […]
We here at The Shinbone Star know how tempting it can be to lose focus on this whole Russia business, especially now that Donald J. Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un are busy comparing dick sizes (our money’s on Kim) while threatening to blow us all to kingdom come. In the newspaper business, we learned […]
