“I just gave the maximum allowed donation to Jennifer Lewis, a democrat running for my father’s congressional seat” His Republican congressional father announced that he is not running for re-election. But I don’t think that is the reason the son…
What a fun game this is. The country elects Republicans who oppose government involvement in our lives, except for our private parts, favors businesses over people, and makes it easier for businesses to take advantage of us when we try…
I agree that any talk of restoring this country’s greatness must include a return to the smoke-belching, less-regulated, gas-guzzling, backroom-deal-making era that characterized the United States during its hegemonic, paternalistic, condescending, arrogant post-World War II to 1991 past. If I’ve…
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski offered a stunning and blistering piece on Friday’s Morning Joe. In a commentary, she admitted a lot of people – including his close advisors and congressional Republicans – are afraid to say the obvious: that Donald Trump…
I just spent a week doing what all teachers should have the option of doing in the summer if they didn’t need a second job to make ends meet. I attended a seminar on a content topic that was both…
I’m sure you’ve heard about the latest outrage. Of course you have. It was about foreign affairs or the economy or immigration or something that will make the country weak or less democratic or dirtier or something. You reacted to…
Have you noticed that Congress hasn’t passed any laws lately? Yes, I know they’ve probably snuck in some measures having to do with the awfulness of the government being able to help poor people or possibly allowing people to cite…
What a great word. Infrastructure. People of all stripes and models use it earnestly despite its awkwardness. It means so much and is so difficult to romanticize. I’ll stop. Remember when infrastructure was going to be first on the new…
You knew there was going to be a point at which it gets worse. We might have reached it. The Supreme Court ruled that the president can order the borders closed to certain people because of their religion and that…
The pictures, dismissive commentary, rationalizations and policy contradictions (if there really is a policy) surrounding immigration have shown that the RepubliTrump party is morally and ethically bankrupt. But that’s not really the worst of it. In fact, all of this…
I understand that the reason the United States is not in the World Cup tournament is due to poor play, suspect coaching, and stubborn woodwork, but there is a bit of poetry involved in that the present administration wants to…
I’m always amused when there’s a president in the White House with whom you don’t agree, and friends or others ask, “But you want the president to succeed, don’t you?” And I suppose, in the abstract, the answer always has…
