Until that televised perp walk, enough with George Santos. When this country elected a serial fabulist (“I’m self-funding my own campaign”) to its highest office, it made manifest that lying is a coin of conquest. Enough about a little congressman and his little lies. Something bigger is dead ahead. We are approaching a moment with “catastrophe” written…
As brilliant and visionary as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was, he would acknowledge that everything he said about social justice was self-evident. Self-evident, like “all men are created equal.” On equality, however, King took pains to assert other truths that we shouldn’t need a visionary to notice, like: “It’s a cruel jest to tell…
Two headlines last week pretty much summed up how the world works – to the world’s detriment. The first: a report in the journal Science that Exxon-Mobile’s own scientists were “remarkably accurate” in predicting global warming as far back as the 1970s, and of course played it down. The second: that Sen. Joe Manchin’s top…
Doug Ducey is gone. Well, not exactly gone. Just not governor of Arizona anymore. Unfortunately, he didn’t take his playthings with him. Instead, those toys remain to despoil pristine borderlands. In teenage terms, this is called “soiling the nest” before parting. In toddler terms, it’s simply called a hissy fit. Ducey left behind an ungodly sculpture…
When Russia rolled tanks into Ukraine, Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin a “genius” and “very savvy.” Turns out, not very. If you like scrap metal, the tanks are now an impressive pile. The army is starving, frost-bitten and in disarray. The tragedy of Ukraine far transcends its own toll of death and devastation. It also includes callow…