Build Back Better. It’s a great handle for bridges, viaducts and sewer lines. But, oh, my — how inadequate a name for legislation that’s more complex and nuanced, focused on survival – personal, planetary. No wonder Joe Manchin says he can’t sell it to the people of…
In biology, surface distinctions among human beings barely count. Regardless of skin color, we all share 99.9 percent of our genetic code with one another. Biologically, race is an artifice, a distinction without a distinction. Try telling that, however, to the Republican Party’s computers. They…
Foes of masks, the Denver Post reported, “waved American flags, cheered and whistled” at the marathon school board meeting. Then a newly reconstituted, newly partisan board sided with them. Left out of the discussion: administrators charged with keeping children, teachers and staff safe. It had been impressive…
“Don’t worry. There’s plenty that would love to take you off the face of the f-cking earth. Come and get it, bitch. You f-cking Muslim piece of sh-t, you jihadist. “You will not live much longer, bitch.” No, that wasn’t Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert calling Rep. Ilhan Omar…
Webster defines gall as “brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and indolence.” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has a lot of that Enough to pave an interstate. In his recent dusk-to-dawn prattle-athon trying to stop Joe Biden’s social spending initiative, McCarthy said many idiotic things. Topping…
Sure, there are other problems in the world. Raisins are a problem — cooked raisins, plumped and pleading, contrived to make muffins and cinnamon rolls vessels of subversion. Turnips are a problem. Steamed in their own ooze, they bite the young innocent who thinks it’s a bit…
In the book “Rampage Nation,” author Louis Klarevas, who narrowly averted death at the barrel of a long arm, employs the standard term “mass killing” for four or more victims. Had one of Kyle Rittenhouse’s rapid rounds not torn through the arm of one of the three people…
Donald Trump is still president, say cultists. So where is that infrastructure plan? That “beautiful” health care plan – “insurance for everyone.” Where? Balancing the federal budget? He said he’d do it “fairly quickly.” (Or, he’d add $7.8 trillion to the national debt in four years, one…
What’s that you hear? The sounds of hammering and pounding, sanding and carving. It’s the Republican Party, hard at work constructing myths and phantoms. At the Build-a-Myth workshop, the GOP builds the wedges it hopes will boost it back to national power. Like in Virginia, where…
Colorado fired John Eastman right around the time America fired Donald Trump. Trump's employers gave him notice in November. In Eastman’s case, it was, “Hit the road” in January. Actually, it was the University of Colorado that told Eastman his services were no longer needed. This after…