There are very few times in which I have found myself at a loss for words. I typed that first sentence 20 minutes ago, and very little has come to mind since then. I awakened today to the election results and while I wasn’t all that surprised by the result, I was stunned by the …
I went through the Electoral College map a few minutes ago to make my semi-educated guess about the presidential election. Four years ago, Joe Biden beat Donald Trump, 306-232. If each candidate, Kamala Harris and Trump carried the same states this time that were carried by their party last time, the margin would be 303-235 …
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. That Billy Yeats sure could write some purty poems. …
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” This was of course a big part of the speech …
Garbage? There’s a floating island of garbage in the Atlantic Ocean and it’s known as Puerto Rico? And this is supposed to be funny? True, it wasn’t Donald Trump who made the remark. It was comedian Tony Hinchcliffe who made such a blatantly racist remark, although he was part of Trump’s six-hour rally this weekend …
If Americans have one flaw when it comes to the lessons of history, it’s that we have failed to learn them. So of course, as Santayana reminds us, we are doomed to retreat them. A year or two ago, I remember reading something interesting about American history. Basically the writer said that when we solved …
If not America’s Hitler, Trump certainly a fascist Read More »
It should surprise no one that I am a registered Democrat. I believe the proper response would be “No duh,” although I have voted for at least a few Republicans for everything but president. And I voted for John McCain in the 2000 presidential primary in California, mostly because I hated the thought of George …
One of the things I enjoyed most about the first half of my newspaper career was covering college basketball. For two years in St. Louis and two years in Reno, I actually had the beat of covering a Division I team and traveling with those teams to road games. I covered the Missouri Tigers from …
Has there ever been a time in American history when there were so many out-and-out lunatics on one side of the political equation? Was there ever a time when an American president had a bromance with a Russian dictator and also spoke so highly of at least three other strongmen in other countries and was …
“Who does that?” Barack Obama asked a very good question while discussing Donald Trump with an audience in Pittsburgh the other day. What kind of candidate for president sells merchandise at his rallies — special sneakers, nonexistent trading cards, hundred-thousand dollar watches and Christian Bibles with his name on them? Trump was already a unique …
From Bibles to talking trout, Trump grifting away Read More »
