I’ll take my shoes off to that. Whatever the Transportation Security Administration wishes to do. Done. Strip search. Check. Mouth scraping. Check. Hair sample. While it lasts. I’ll surrender all fluids. Body scan? I’ll stretch out on the conveyor and slide along with the tennis rackets.…
The front-page teaser read: “Did Trump lie to Robert Mueller?” The mind reacted: What? Does Mueller have a television? Internet access? Does Mueller have ears? Can he compute linguistic signals? If any of the above, Trump lied to him just as he has lied…
The GOP explanation, with an attempt at correct punctuation: “He didn’t do it, but if he did, it was perfect; but why should we believe he did it? This is all second- and third-hand testimony, except for the transcript you might have read, and anyway he was just…
With markers of Trumpian corruption amassing like a superbug strain in a petri dish, the Republican motorcade arrives at a fork in history’s road. Ethical government? It’s thataway. Extending Trump’s reign? The other way. Honesty? Legality? Basic decency? They went thataway. Funny. I remember when the Republicans were all…
Forever it will be my image of Election Night 2016. Homeward bound just as the polls were closing, I was passing through the placid and aptly named city of Loveland, Colo. Deep in contemplation about the fate of our nation, I was stunned as I arrived at…