1 hour agoMember-onlyAccording to Trump, Things Couldn’t Be Any Worse.I have a friend who is 84-years old and has basically lost the ability to walk without using a wheelchair or two canes. So, right now he’s a resident of a nursing home which does physical therapy with the hope that maybe his muscles will wake up again. Meanwhile, his…Trump4 min readTrump4 min read
3 hours agoMember-onlyWill Trump Turn America into a Fascist State?Yesterday, I was driving down I-90 and listening to my CD which was a performance of The Threepenny Opera, featuring Lotte Lenya in the major singing role. With a libretto by Bertold Brecht and a musical score by Kurt Weill, this remarkable piece of music has been performed thousands of…Trump4 min readTrump4 min read
1 day agoMember-onlyAre You Ready for the Catastrophe?Until yesterday, I thought that anyone who believed that Trump won the 2020 election was either stupid, crazy or both. But then I happened to hear about a new project which if it’s more than a website, has to rank as something which must attract the craziest human beings of…Conspiracy Theories4 min readConspiracy Theories4 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyWant To Own a Gun? Join the Holton Militia.Want to live in what may be the safest community in the United States? Try a place called Holton, which is in Michigan, located about 10 miles from Lake Michigan, and has some 2,500 people living in 900 or so habitable dwellings, and 98% of these residents are white. …Guns4 min readGuns4 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyHow Come Some People Shoot Other People?Yesterday, a 34-year-old man was sentenced to 12–15 years in state prison for shooting a state trooper in Springfield, MA, which is where I happen to live. The trooper survived his wound because he was hit by a stray shot in the leg when he responded to a report about…Gun Violence4 min readGun Violence4 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyHow Come Everyone Likes Trump When He Gets Pissed Off?Sooner or later, we were going to be treated to an academic analysis of Trump’s political rhetoric which would conclude that he was introducing a style of political speech which was more nasty, angry, and vulgar than any political rhetoric previously used or heard. And the analysis now exists in…Trump4 min readTrump4 min read
3 days agoMember-onlyWill Rudy Giuliani End Up Homeless?I’ve told this story before but it’s worth telling again. Back in 1987, I flew down to D.C. for a meeting, rented a car at National Airport and was now stopped at a red light on Wisconsin Avenue in the Georgetown section of the city. While I was waiting for…Rudy Giuliani4 min readRudy Giuliani4 min read
3 days agoMember-onlyWill the Fake News Ever Report the News?When I was a kid (here we go again), the newspapers which we got at home, first The Washington Post and later The New York Times had what was called an ‘editorial page’ which contained several editorial comments from the newspaper’s editorial board and several op-ed pieces from guys like…Trump4 min readTrump4 min read
3 days agoMember-onlyTrump Goes After DeNiro? What a Joke.A few years ago, I happened to be listening to Rush and he began taking off in the angriest and most insulting way at Meryl Street, who had made some nasty comments in the media about him and his political views. After ranting and sputtering for a couple of minutes…Trump3 min readTrump3 min read
3 days agoMember-onlyWill We Ever Figure Out Who’s Doing All That Shooting?Last week there were two legal decisions involving guns, and each side got one win. Gun-nut Nation was given a gift by a Federal judge in West Virginia, who ruled that a law prohibiting persons under 21 from buying a handgun was a violation of 2nd-Amendment ‘rights.’ In California, the…Guns3 min readGuns3 min read
