For better or much worse, when its Legislature is in session, Texas’ lieutenant governor is arguably the most powerful state official — able to railroad or kill any bill. Right now, however, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is but a clanging cymbal. …
Informed that Fox News talking heads were getting hammered for having dismissed the virus now afflicting Americans by the thousands, my wife shrugged. “They have to follow their leader,” she explained. So very true. Once upon a time to call one’s self a news organization would,…
“We would be warm below the storm in our little hideaway beneath the waves” – The Beatles Wait. At this very moment, what’s safer: an octopus’s garden or a yellow submarine? I ask because that’s exactly where my mind flashed when a blessed Beatles standby stroked…
Meme of the week: “Wash your hands like you just shook hands with Trump.” Donald Trump says he washes his hands constantly. Since little of what he’s ever said can be believed, take that claim to the Dumpster and dowse it in bleach. Trump has comported himself…
One of the pithiest commentaries about the chief executive to whom we are shackled comes in five words from San Diego Union cartoonist Steve Breen. His cartoon shows Donald Trump, reading from a sheet labeled “politics” and training a pointer at “VIRUS” on an easel. Pictured as a…
This just in: Another Trump administration official has been fired for committing truth. Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire has joined the ranks of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland, two FBI directors (Comey and McCabe) and enough diplomatic and intelligence officials to add a…
I’m not one to judge body parts. Purportedly, however, Donald Trump has small extremities. Hands, particularly. Now, picture a clock: the Donald Trump Corruption Clock. The white-gloved hands – one bigger, one just small — always point away from himself. Such busy hands. Tick-tock. Even the…
Mary Louise Kelly is the enemy of America, and Rush Limbaugh gets the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Yep. We can all play that game. OK, I’ll try. Florence Nightingale was a serial killer. Idi Amin was a humanitarian. Now, you try. Not surprising that Donald Trump would use…
He won an election — with 3 million fewer votes than his opponent. He got a tax cut that made filthy-rich people feel filthier so. He got those two Supreme Court justices, one squeaking by with a Senate GOP margin sliced to a hairpin by voters revolted…
“Son, this is a Washington, D.C., kind of lie. It’s when the other person knows you’re lying, and also knows you know he knows.” This from Allen Drury’s novel “Advise and Consent.” The 1959 account of conniving and blood sport in a high-profile Senate confirmation won the Pulitzer…