A funny thing happened on the road to autocracy: life got in the way. Since 2016 when Donald Trump and his Russian master stole the election, I’ve been writing incendiary articles for The Shinbone Star, while at the same time reading news and opinion in our sister papers, The Washington Post and New York Times. When I wasn’t […]
It’s one of those unanswerable chicken-or-the-egg type questions, but one that occupied my mind. Who did I despise more, Donald Trump or the braying, MAGA-hatted jackasses who foisted him upon us? In trying to come up with an answer the question morphed into another: Will I ever be able to forgive the people who voted […]
Readers of these pages might have noted that a number of our writers have a Texas connection, which is why even from my New Jersey living room I tuned in last night to the ballgame between the Chicago Cubs and my beloved Houston Astros. But this isn’t a story about baseball — that would seem […]
After watching Attorney General William Barr’s news conference this morning preparatory to the release of his redacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, I thought about the different ways his conclusions might be viewed by ordinary Americans. It all comes down to faith — not that kind of […]
It was Muhammed Ali who coined the term “rope-a-dope,” a boxing technique by which he leaned against the ropes while his opponent wore himself out flailing ineffectively at a mostly protected target. How ironic that Islamophobe Donald Trump’s champion, Attorney General William Barr, would adopt a Muslim boxer’s strategy to deliver a TKO to our […]
Fuck you, Betsy DeVos, you evil skank. There you go, naughty words right at the top of the page that will have a significant number of good Christians lunging for the computer mouse so they can click away from The Shinbone Star. How dare I utter such offensive words! Yeah, I know it’s bad journalism to […]
