20 hours agoMember-onlyRudy Giuliani is P.O.S. #2.When I was growing up in one of the New York nabes, there were certain people we referred to as a ‘piece of shit’ or often we just used the acronym and called them a ‘P.O.S.’ We used that term for the local cop who gave out parking tickets to…Giuliani3 min readGiuliani3 min read
1 day agoMember-onlyAre Trump Supporters Paranoid?When you get engaged in politics as an activist or an observer or both, every once in a while it helps to step back and look at current political events within an historical perspective, because you’ll often find that what is considered to be so new and unusual today has…Trump4 min readTrump4 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyIs Every Political Website Now a Movement?Yesterday I happened to spend a minute online and looked at the speaker’s list for the PrayVoteStand meeting being held in Washington, D.C. …Politics3 min readPolitics3 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyShould Physicians Counsel Patients About Guns?Dear Readers: Let me warn you that today’s column is longer than my usual 600–700 words. So, I hope you will set aside a bit of time to read the entire thing and spend a moment reflecting on what it says. Before I get into the specifics, I want to…Guns6 min readGuns6 min read
3 days agoMember-onlyA Trump Rally Thins Out.Want to start the week off with the best video of all time? Well, maybe not of all time, but certainly in the last couple of weeks. It’s a video of a ‘huge’ group of pro-Trumpers who held a rally in front of Trump Tower yesterday and then drove out…Trump4 min readTrump4 min read
4 days agoMember-onlyTrump Gets Evangelicals Ready for 2024.Yesterday, before I went to a family gathering for Rosh Hashanah, I happened to spend a minute online and looked at the speaker’s list for the PrayVoteStand meeting being held in Washington, D.C. This group is a front group for the Family Research Council, which was founded in 1981 and…Evangelicals3 min readEvangelicals3 min read
5 days agoMember-onlyDo We Really Understand How the World Exists Today?I happen to be reading a brilliant book by a member of the law faculty at UCLA, whose name is Stuart Banner, and the book is, How the Indians Lost their Land — Law and Power on the Frontier (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2007). The book is a study of…Colonilism5 min readColonilism5 min read
5 days agoMember-onlyHow Come Everyone Hates Joe?What is it about Joe which seems to be making his run for re-election look like he doesn’t have a chance? Here’s a guy who singlehandedly rebuilt the Western security system, ended the Covid-19 Pandemic, passed not one but two major pieces of spending legislation, presides over a national economy…Biden3 min readBiden3 min read
6 days agoMember-onlyLet’s Let MTG Take the South Back!This isn’t the first time I’m writing a column on this stupid secession idea, but it’s worth repeating if only because the morons who claim they want the South to secede just can’t give it up. Actually, Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t all that stupid for promoting this idea because it…Mtg3 min readMtg3 min read
Sep 14Member-onlyWhy Do We Keep Buying Things We Don’t Need?If you want to spend a vacation in a remote, remarkably beautiful lakeside location, I suggest you travel down to Guatemala and spend a week or so in the lakeside retreat by the name of Panajachel, which you might really consider to be Heaven on Earth. …Wealth3 min readWealth3 min read
