Wretched refuse.In his glowering snark, Ron DeSantis believes he sent Martha’s Vineyard a load of manure.From Texas’ Greg Abbott and Arizona’s Doug Ducey: shipments of human effluent to Washington, New York and Chicago. C.O.D.Warning: murderers and rapists inside. And some good people.To hear these demagogues, reactions in Massachusetts, New York, Chicago and D.C. are just…
“We’re not letting the Capitol fall.” Bravery before the imponderable – our democracy besieged by our own. The words of a Capitol police officer were captured on his body cam Jan. 6 as pro-Trump terrorists attacked the seat of our government. It was all so hard to grasp then. Everything from “Hang Mike Pence” to…
Something is killing the Great Salt Lake. Any guesses what that might be? Lake Mead and Lake Powell are in the clutches of the worst water-level drop in their life-giving histories. What might the problem be? With hundreds of wildfires this year, over 200 Texas counties have earned “crop disaster area” designation. Any suggestions as…
Poll after poll after poll. Name your indicator and know the Republican Party is completely out of touch with the majority of thought in America. Completely on the wrong side of history. Completely wrong. Period. Abortion rights. Sane gun laws. LBGTQ rights and social advancement. Voting rights. The Affordable Care Act and other steps to…
Donald Trump and shoeshine boy Rudy Giuliani like to throw around claims of dead people voting in massive numbers. Eight thousand dead voters in Philly! Make that 30,000! Uh, yeah. As he admitted to Arizona’s House speaker, Giuliani had no evidence for any of his claims, only theories. Ah, but I’m here to report that…
Where did they find these people? Roger Stone. Paul Manafort. Sidney Powell. John Eastman. How is it that any of these people could ever be at the elbow of the most powerful man on the planet? We know where they found Rudy Giuliani: begging for pizza crust and publicity on the sidewalks of New York. And someone made a…
When my son was in fifth grade in Texas, he found himself a pawn in a morality play. Literally. His teacher, Mrs. Thrasher, had scripted a performance about early settlers taming the land. It was pastoral. Literally. Central to the plot was the felling of trees and the milling of wood, presumably to build a…
From what we’ve learned from the Jan. 6 Committee, Donald Trump may have to deploy a novel defense against the crime of seditious conspiracy. Insanity. This one must deduce from comments about the hurdle of “state of mind and intent” prosecutors would need to demonstrate to prove criminality. To that effect, Trump World should be…
Last May, Gallup found eight of 10 Americans supported the right the Supreme Court just tossed in history’s waste basket – the right for a woman to choose. Next to go? Same-sex marriage in states bold enough to abolish it. A person's right to use contraception also is threatened. What thereafter? Prohibition of interracial marriage? Resegregation of lunch…
Rattle, rattle. What’s that sound? It’s a big-government conservative picking through the garbage of a woman alleged to have been pregnant. Click, click. That’s big-government conservatives hacking into a woman’s menstrual cycle app. When politicians make a woman’s private medical decisions their own, things like this can happen. Indeed, President Biden this week was pondering…