Some of the things Donald Trump says are completely frightening, and I’m not talking about the horrible authoritarian remarks he has made. Yes, he has sounded more and more like Adolf Hitler. That’s not what matters here. On November 4th, just before heading up to New York to testify in his civil trial, Trump spoke …
FORGET THE HITLER STUFF, TRUMP IS JUST A LUNATIC Read More »
Let’s look ahead and talk about how we can realign the Democratic Party to regain power. It isn’t as if the party is on life support as so many media people are saying. At least 50 percent of the reason Republicans control the House is gerrymandering. We have 48 Senate seats, and our candidate for …
“The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church. I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk. It was not in the Constitution, it was in a stinking letter and it means nothing like what they say it does.” — REP. LAUREN BOEBERT (R-CO) More …
There is a tremendous irony in the fact that the nation that betrayed its intelligence and inflicted the Holocaust on the world has also been one of the best at repenting its past evil. During his term in office, former President Donald Trump (of German descent) said he thought Germany had been punished enough for …
HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT WE’RE DUMBER THAN GERMANY WAS Read More »
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” “The buck stops here.” “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Those are quotes from three 20th century presidents. “I am not a crook.” “Government isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.” “I don’t take responsibility …
In the first 60 years of my life, I had exactly one surgery. It was 1976, and I spent four days in the hospital for what today might be outpatient surgery. On New Year’s Day 1972, I was engaged in playing football with other guys from my neighborhood. One of the players on the opposing …
It’s very rare to get wonderful emails. An awful lot of what we get is spam and much of the rest tends to be people trying to get us to give someone money, vote for someone else or just to e annoying in some way. Yes, there are occasional nice emails. But I’ve gotten three …
I was reading a blogpost by my California friend Kay Murphy, one of the best writers I know It was about almost losing one of her dogs in the foothills in the Inland Empire, and even though it ended happily, I finished it with tears in my eyes. Not because of her dog. As I …
With the sad death of Matthew Perry … Mike, aren’t all deaths sad? Trump? Well, maybe not all. Carry on. With the sad death of Matthew Perry, there seems to be a lot of talk about how wonderful “Friends” was. People of a certain age seem to think sitcoms started and ended with “Friends” and …
MY FAVORITE SITCOMS AREN’T ALL THE MOST POPULAR ONES Read More »
There is an old expression that basically says, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It may be the main reason so few serious problems ever get solved anymore, especially in this country. Take the issue of abortion, for example. Ever since the Supreme Court legalized a woman’s right to have an …
EVEN IN RED STATES, VOTERS WANT REASONABLE SOLUTIONS Read More »
