It fills me with despair to think voters are so incredibly stupid. I know that’s a combative way to start a piece, but let’s face it. We can’t get anything done in Washington because one party refuses to allow the other party to govern. Voters get angry at the governing party for what they see …
“… eight hundred pounds of angry hillbilly.” “Disturbed Veterans of the Indian Wars.” “No, Bubblegut! No!” It’s tough to brag when your book ranks No. 1,149,768 for sales on Amazon, although that does leave “The System” in the top 12 percent or so of more than nine million listings. We have acquired a rating. Someone gave …
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I had pretty well made up my mind on the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, and at first I was truly appalled that he wasn’t convicted on any of the five counts. But when I started thinking about it, I realized that other than gun charges, the only possibility for real punishment would be if it was …
There but for the grace of God … Note: The picture at the beginning isn’t from this story. It’s just to make a point, that … There but for the grace of God … I was thinking recently about what had to be the strangest minute of my entire life. It was nearly the last …
Once was the time — I think I was 15 — when I memorized the names of all 100 members of the United States Senate, from Alabama all the way to Wyoming. I knew the winners and losers of every presidential election all the way back to the beginning, and I probably knew the names …
SENATORS TO SINGERS TO CHAMPS, MEMORY IS A SERIOUS THING Read More »
I can think of very few circumstances in which I would cheerfully cast a ballot for Liz Cheney. Still, I find myself with some admiration for Wyoming’s only Congressperson, who has been one of a very few Republicans who has stood tough against Donald Trump. She is serving her third term in the House of …
To be, or not to be, that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troublesAnd by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is …
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I was reading something about Charles Lindbergh when I saw something that really shocked me. No, it didn’t have anything to do with hs flight or the controversies surrounding his later life. It was two facts that were only shocking in conjunction with each other. Lindbergh was 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighed just …
Remember when Republicans were just jerks? Mike, are you really going to start this piece with something that provocative? Richard. Milhous. Nixon. Well … I’m not kidding. As much of a jerk as Nixon was, he never publicly fantasized about killing his political opponents. Neither did Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush or Dick Cheney. Donald …
What are the nicest things anyone has ever said to you? I certainly hope you have had at least a few times in your life someone told you how proud they were of you, or how special you are or some variations on that theme. Before I get too far into this, I’m going to …
