Requiem for an anti-vax evangelist

          What kind of science did Bob Enyart peddle?           Whatever the strain, it killed him.           It wasn’t cross-over equine science – the wonders of horse dewormer. It wasn’t Clorox tonic or one dose too many hydroxychloroquine.           It was just anti-vax, anti-fact quackery.           On weekly broadcasts of his…

Minority rule wrecks us

            Only in the Supreme Court does the majority consistently make policy in Washington.             And most of that majority was nominated by presidents who got fewer votes than their rivals.             A solid majority of Americans – 58 percent today (Gallup) — consistently opposes a ban on abortion. Yet a…

Road to Kabul via Saigon

            Like Afghanistan, Vietnam was a bipartisan debacle.             From Kennedy to Johnson to Nixon to Ford. Wait. Ford?             Gerald – yeah. The “accidental president” was the one who, like Joe Biden, made the call to end a futile and interminable war, then presided over the chaos that followed.…

Stinkin’ rotten stupid COVID politics

            Tetanus. Polio. Measles. Mumps and rubella. These are vaccinations Texas required of my sons before they started school in the ’80s.             Over the years, Hepatitis B. Chickenpox and Hepatitis A were added to the requirements.             Ten years ago the Texas Legislature appended meningitis to the list.            …

They would not lie for him

            It is possible to low-ball even Donald Trump’s threshold for corruption.             I did. When reports showed he sought to extort Ukraine to torpedo Joe Biden’s candidacy, the assumption – my assumption – was that Trump had demanded an investigation of his most-likely Democratic rival.             Wrong. What Trump…

Deadly disease is no trolling matter

            Hardy har har.             Increasing numbers of Floridians are dying of a newly invigorated virus, and Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to make puns of Anthony Fauci’s name.             Yuckety yuck.             Amid a resurgence of death and devastation, Marco Rubio wants to mock face coverings – again.             Chortle,…

Comparing whom to Nazis?

            Republicans want their history laundered and starched.             This apparently includes likening facilitators of life-saving medical care to Nazis.             That’s what GOP Congresswoman Lauren Boebert did the other day before a red-meat CPAC audience.             “Needle Nazis” were coming to the doors of unsuspecting Americans to coerce them…