Every newspaper I worked for had at least one guy who led a charmed life, who somehow managed to keep his job even though everything he touched turned to shit. Did he have dirty pictures of the publisher? Did he have a rich daddy who was a stockholder in the company? Was he dating the […]
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 […]
With fewer than 100 days until Election Day, Delusional Donald Trump suggested last week that the vote might be delayed, claiming that an election that hasn’t even happened yet would be “the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history.” This latest mind ejaculation cums as no surprise. If only his father, Fred Trump had used […]
Sometimes you get advice you know is good but just can’t follow because you’re a special kind of asshole. That would describe me, and it’s the reason why I can’t just look the other way when I see stupid people doing evil, stupid things. No doubt my life would be easier if I loved my […]
“What a field-day for the heat A thousand people in the street Singing songs and carrying signs Mostly say, hooray for our side It’s s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound Everybody look what’s going down . . . “ ‘For What It’s Worth’ — Buffalo Springfield 1966 Americans in Portland, Ore., and other […]
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 […]
In 2017, The New York Times reported that Oval Office Occupant #45, Donald Trump, has a button to summon household staff for one of the 12 Diet Cokes he drinks each day. How safe is his consumption and what are the side effects? There are 39 grams sugar in one liter of Diet Coke, along […]
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 […]
Oval Office Occupant Donald Trump is a lying, cheating, thieving, racist, traitorous, vile, backstabbing, miserable son of a bitch. And those are his good traits. His insidious war on highly respected (by other than Trump and his worshippers) Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, is another of his “shoot the messenger” tantrums. […]
Whether you’re planning to vote by mail or have decided to brave the COVID breath of your fellow Americans by voting in person, many Democrats (and some enlightened Republicans) have circled Nov. 3 on their calendars as the day we can finally end Donald Trump. Nov. 3, for those of you who have been living […]
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 […]
“I like people who weren’t captured. He lost and let us down. I’ve never liked him as much after that. I don’t like losers” — Oval Office Occupant #45, Donnie Trump, speaking about John McCain, a Vietnam War POW For a creature who “doesn’t like people who were captured,” Donald Trump’s sudden affection for the […]
Late last week, Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue offered this observation on Impeached President Donald J. Trump during a speech after a roundtable with other Hispanic leaders and Trump: “We’re all truly blessed at the same time to have a leader like President Trump, who is a builder.” Blessed to have Trump “leading” the country? […]
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 […]
The U.S. Supreme Court decided two landmark rulings on presidential power yesterday that settled the question of the range of the executive branch. In a 7-2 ruling on both matters, the Court ruled Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. can subpoena Mazars USA, an accounting firm hired by Trump, for his financial records as it […]
For several weeks, I’ve asked the question that reflects how many educators feel: Where’s Betsy? And as if in response, she and her incompetent, sociopathic boss, Donald Trump, showed up in the worst way, demanding that schools be opened in the fall, and even threatening to withhold federal funds to school districts that don’t obey […]
It seems today that Americans of all cultural, religious and political stripes struggle with the meaning of one word that defines our country. Freedom. It seems simple enough. Go to a dictionary. In this case it’s Merriam/Webster’s oft-quoted tome defining words in the English language. Freedom, according to its editors, is: 1: The quality or […]
The path to hope is fraught with peril, a path I’ve already advised we dare not tread. Hope is the antithesis of my personal credo: expect the worst and you’ll never be disappointed. And yet, against better judgment, I cannot keep from hearing the people who talk about the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Joe Biden, […]
Those of us who are of a certain age may remember a term that was used to describe men who felt women were their inferiors and were only good for cooking, cleaning and copulation. The phrase was “male chauvinist pig,” often abbreviated to MCP. I haven’t said it or heard it in years, but the […]
