If any evidence were needed that the essence of Republicanism in 2023 is petty white grievance, consider the hit job on an Idaho community college. Behold, North Idaho College: so evil as it teaches young adults of Kootenai County diesel mechanics and radiography. So demonic as it provides low-cost core courses for people otherwise priced…
Pete Buttigieg chose his words with care. In an MSNBC interview, the secretary of transportation easily could have scapegoated someone for the disaster at East Palestine, Ohio. But an investigation is in the works. As a responsible person, Buttigieg signaled that he’d wait for facts. Unlike, for instance, someone who hauled a bunch of “Trump”…
Today’s question: How do you pronounce “Curses!” in Texan? Two syllables or three? Whatever. Some stove-piped hatters in an industry group nominally identified with Texas will curse out loud at some good tidings I now share: Electric cars are catching up with gasoline-powered cars in price. Demand is soaring. Indeed, with federal tax credits and…
Let’s check out the outrage on Fox News this week. What is it? “Woke” candy morsels? Death panels for natural gas stoves? Cheeseburgers snatched from the mouths of babes? So, what? No outrage: a tidal wave of death from maniacs bearing military-style weapons. No outrage: a planet reeling from drought, sea-level rise and extreme weather…
Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes. How do you measure, measure a year? How does a party on the outs measure a blown opportunity? Let’s just say that for Republicans there’s always next year. This year, in their second chance to rebut President Biden’s State of the Union, they bet that Americans wanted to…
Looking back, it all seems so long ago – another era entirely, an epoch committed to dusty catacombs and flaking Sanskrit. Surely it couldn’t be just two years since the end of Pharaoh’s reign. We sang songs about his departure. We celebrated his exile to his gold-plated compound. But King Trumptankhamun — “King Trump” of…
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…