As I write, it’s Friday night and we’re watching the news as the US, France and England attack Syria. We are theoretically retaliating against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad because he poisoned hundreds of Syrian civilians — men, women, and children — using prohibited chemical weapons. The problem with being a US citizen under this administration is that President Trump’s motives taint everything. A lot of […]
The news media remains focused on President Donald Trump’s stupidly obvious mendacity. Hard not to watch, I suppose. Trump’s a kleptocrat who’s furiously disemboweling our supposedly beloved democracy. We check the news daily for updates about Robert Mueller’s investigation, hoping he’ll bring down the wrath of America on his evil. And replace him with… what, exactly? My problem is that Trump isn’t an aberration. He […]
Here’s a revolutionary thought. Our public servants have been lying to us at a fantastic rate. Suppose we decided we didn’t like that? I know this is far beyond the pale these days, but what would happen if we demanded our officials not lie to us?  Crazy, I know, but lying is a kind of malfeasance. So what might happen when public officials who tell […]
Our manly Republican government is cowering from the future. We can see disruptions racing toward us, and yet they’re looking the wrong way. Maybe they want kids to fix it?
I wish I knew what the hell the Republican Party wants. Maybe I’d know how to help them. I know a lot of conservatives, and we disagree sometimes, but we work things out. I know that as a country, we need to work stuff like that out all the time. This is America, and I want us to pull together as a country. The trouble […]
America’s gun problem drives us insane. Unfortunately, banning assault guns falls apart when anyone with a CNC mill can make their own.
I can’t tell if we’re insane or stupid. We see the collapse of the two-party system into a criminal kleptocracy, and yet we keep pretending it’s something else. I started this with the Stoneman Douglas High School deaths. It still hurts to think about it, but we have another mass shooting in another school. We see the broken and bloody bodies of our children on […]
Like many Republicans before him, Trump and his administration talk about people as either good or bad. That’s a child’s concept, and a political tactic. Republican started the approach decades ago under Lee Atwater, but Trump took Atwater’s noxious toy and just ran with it. He frames almost every disagreement as combat between good and evil. This tactic isn’t just infantile nonsense; it corrupts any conversation it […]
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