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.…
DetailsNot 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…
DetailsSay 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.…
DetailsTo 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,…
DetailsHer 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…
DetailsBack 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…
DetailsThey 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…
DetailsThe 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”…
DetailsRemarkably he still had his hair when the beginning came – the beginning of his afterlife. That powdered-egg pelt: still enough to comb combatively. That Caramelo face: oh, yeah. Remarkable for one not alive — and as identifiable as ever when St. Peter acknowledged him from atop a golden barrier. “Where’s the entrance?” he demanded,…
DetailsIn recent weeks we’ve seen a new breed of first responders when disaster hits. Not the fire department. Not the EMTs. Not the cops. No, even faster are politicians misrepresenting facts and placing blame on whomever they can finger; facts be damned. Hence, while we see the very best of humanity in the public servants…
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