I’m really not sure if poor old Andy Warhol should be blamed for the spate of shootings from sea to bloody sea, but so many of the insignificant little nobodies who have been murdering people must be seeking something resembling the 15 minutes of fame Warhol promised them. The problem is that too many people …
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose …” Actually, with apologies to Kris Kristofferson, these days freedom seems more like the right to be an asshole. I’m not sure there has ever been a time — at least in the nearly three-quarters of a century I have been alive — when more people …
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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 …
Sometimes you really do have to look at both sides of a question to understand it. Since Election Day, we have been hearing how a large number of Republicans, most of them the ones I like to call Trumpanzees, believe that Democrats stole the election from their hero. I’ve heard numbers as high as 70 …
I’m worried, and I hope I’m more worried than I need to be. What is most bizarre about it is that some of the people I’m worried for are … imagine this … Republicans. Georgia Republicans. A few weeks ago, I had about as much affection for them as Jake and Elwood Blues had for …
Things get weird at the end of centuries, and they get really weird at the end of millennia. Yes, I know we’re 20 years past that, but have you noticed that the weirdness not only didn’t go away this time, it just keeps getting more and more strange. My favorite story of what can happen …
I wish I could understand why so many people seem to believe in the most bizarre conspiracy theories. My closest friend introduced me to the first major one of our lifetime, the “Who killed JFK?” conspiracy that started in the late ’60s and is pretty much still around. Dozens if not hundreds of books have …
“People are tired of Covid. People are tired of hearing Fauci and…all these idiots who got it wrong…This guy’s a disaster.”— Trump on Dr. Anthony Fauci “You turn on CNN, that’s all they cover: Covid, Covid, pandemic, Covid, Covid, Covid… You know why? They’re trying to talk everybody out of voting. People aren’t buying it, …
“These times are so uncertain, there’s a yearning undefined and people filled with rage. We all need a little tenderness, how can love survive in such a graceless age?” Something very strange happened to me this morning. I got out of bed, read the news about Donald Trump testing positively for the Coronavirus and decided …
