A game: Go around the circle: Name a high-profile figure (one without an inmate number) who’s less qualified to be attorney general than noted child connoisseur Matt Gaetz. George Santos? Kanye West? Beavis? Butthead? I know; it’s tough. The only person I can think of who is less suited to enforce our laws is he…
My little canine friend and I have a favorite walking place: the nearest college campus. It’s a place of great sensations for a dog, and I’m not just talking about goose droppings near the reflecting pond. Sure, any place we go, Penny’s nose will reward her. But the college, with its sprawling intramural fields, seems…
Is anything more in tune with our times than debating whether Brian Thompson had it coming? No, not the debate about how high health insurers rank on the blood-sucker scale. How pointless. Thompson, the slain CEO of UnitedHealthcare, didn’t invent medical indemnity. Profit-seekers did. He was one of them, OK? The American way. Right? No,…
I’ve seen this voter before. It was 1988 as the nation considered Michael Dukakis and George H.W. Bush for president. I don’t know how the conversation started, as it wasn’t the kind of topic I’d launch with a casual acquaintance. Nonetheless, the lady I barely knew, with no prompt from me, shared her choice for…
“I will destroy you.” When my kids were of cartoon age, this TV line often rang through the den weekday mornings – a lower-than-low voice from an ever-booming, dominantly villainous robot. I never knew which robot it was. The other day I asked a now-grown son to name that character and help me build an…
The crusade began before the internet. OK, before you knew about the internet. It was long before the light bulb in Jeff Zuckerberg’s head clicked. It was long before Google. A Twitter takeover wasn’t even a twinkle in Elon Musk’s adolescent eye. It was 40 years ago this Thanksgiving in the opinion section of the…
The race is on to fill the administration-elect, scant weeks until the Great Prevaricator is re-throned. No time to waste. Only 44 days ’til Jan. 6. So, get your lying done early. We are already enthralled and intrigued by the lineup of “trust his gut” trustees, the biggest and best-est group of besties ever assembled.…
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. But not to the Republican of the hour for whom he thinks it stands. That’s no partisan dig. No individual gets my allegiance, particularly an elected one. An elected official is my servant. The allegiance is owed to me. Donald Trump thinks it’s…
I’ve loved Steve Kornacki. Loooved Steve Kornacki. As the MSNBC election numbers guy, he’s one of the most amazing talents on television. He can recite more about American counties and voting habits than Google can spit up. Well, this Election Night, I started to hate Steve Kornacki. As the results grew desperate for my cause,…
When a whistle-blower reported that then-President Trump had dangled military aid to Ukraine like a cat toy in an extortive bid to get President Zelensky to launch a probe of Joe Biden, Trump denied it. My first reaction in this column: “Sounds to me like something he’d do. How about you?” He did it. He…