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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…