For those who haven’t left the bed since the morning after Nov. 5, it’s time to yank the curtains open. Time to open that window to a blossoming world. For those whose morning greeting has been, “All is lost,” time for some winning, like this: — Wisconsin voters turned back Heil-On Musk’s attempt to buy…
We now can know the MAGA-fied, true-believer replacement force for federal workers demeaned and demoralized into submission by a president bent on destruction. Rats. When federal workers who had been doing their jobs perfectly well from home were forced to return to work by presidential edict, they found a field of horrors headlined by long-tail…
It doesn’t matter what Pete Hegseth does from here to eternity. He can’t undo this. His Defense Department had Jackie Robinson’s story scrubbed from a department web page. America not being a closed society — not yet, anyway — we found out about the stupid stunt. So — uh-oh! – DOD scrambled to undo it.…
Not that I was sapped of outrage. There are, however, only so many minutes of any day one can be aghast. So, as I pored through the long list of words lusty totalitarians now deem verboten by our newly enthroned junta and its strongman, El Tangerino, my eyes grew heavy. (I write satire, but this…
Say you had a gripe over a parking ticket. Say you had enough big-shot clout in town to resolve the matter by shutting down all parking enforcement. Say you thought your company’s water bill was too high. You had it dissolved. The water department, that is. In either scenario, that would make you Elon Musk.…
To mortified Americans everywhere — you who still cannot expel the hurt from your minds: This president has done many horrible things: conspiring to undermine a U.S. election; inciting a bloody insurrection; breaking the law and skating past felony indictments. As aghast as you’ve been at all that and about every stunning action since November,…
Her eyes were reddened by tears, a box of tissue in the crook of her arm, a pink slip in her pocket. There she was on the sidewalk, pictured in the Denver Post: the person who was going to help you on the phone the next time you had a tax question. This instead: “Elon…
Back when I ran a small-town paper, for a short time we had a feature popular in the era, the “man on the street” interview. Beside six pictures of locals, mouths agape, we’d have their takes — with very few words, and even less insight — on an issue of the day. Once as I…
They are seventh graders who’ve taken over the middle school. They are hooligans who, after looting the Glocks & Ammo outlet store, believe they now run the town. Team Musk, that is. There they are in broken glass and black-fabric faces. Stay calm. Hear and obey: “We are in charge, dudes.” The Musk administration is…
The reprise of all things Dylan (great movie; see it) raises the question: What happened to protest singing? Listen around. T’ain’t been heard for years, and we need it more than ever. Taylor Swift has the chops, but her tunes are tightly engineered around Taylor Swift. Chappell Roan has the guts, but “Pink Pony Club”…