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Monthly Archives: December 2019

Happy New Year from the Conserva-Myth Party

UncategorizedBy John YoungDecember 30, 2019Leave a comment

            In time for New Year’s Eve, a big lie on a big Colorado billboard: “A Coloradan is killed every three days in a marijuana-related traffic crash,” it shouts.             Republican-dominated Weld County has deployed this demonstrable falsehood and other reefer-maddening roadside claims in a taxpayer-funded anti-pot campaign.             It’s…

Charity seize his mind? Not a ghost of a chance

UncategorizedBy John YoungDecember 23, 2019Leave a comment

            “If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”             That was Ebenezer Scrooge’s response to gentlemen soliciting a sliver of silver to help those whose meager fates were at the bitter mercy of the Gilded Age.             Say what one might about…

Mitch’s jurors: foresworn to ignore truth

UncategorizedBy John YoungDecember 16, 2019Leave a comment

           When the Senate tries Donald Trump on slam-dunk charges of abuse of power and obstructing Congress, Senate Republicans will recite after Mitch McConnell:             “I swear to ignore any and all evidence, and serve the leader of our party. Truth be damned.”             That’s not the actual oath they will…

Is it about self-government, or just uniforms?

UncategorizedBy John YoungDecember 9, 2019Leave a comment

            I’ve seen that blank look from someone who doesn’t know football.             “I don’t follow it. Don’t understand the rules — just teams in different uniforms.”             I see the same look these days from some about impeachment.             “I don’t follow it. Don’t understand it. Just two parties going…

Gleam in Rick Perry’s eyes: King Trump

UncategorizedBy John YoungDecember 2, 2019Leave a comment

           Soon-to-be-outta-here Energy Secretary Rick Perry has certainly changed his take.             A couple of years ago he labeled Donald Trump a “cancer on conservatism” and called on fellow conservatives to “excise” it. Now that cancer is divine.             All praise. He says he’s told Trump: “Absorb…

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