You didn’t expect a pre-test, but: Which presidential candidate coined the term “rigged economy”? (A) Bernie Sanders; (B) Elizabeth Warren; (C) Jill Stein; (D) Donald Trump. Answer: D. OK, actual parentage may be in dispute. Patrick Henry might have uttered the phrase first. However, Trump – yes,…
Behold the one-way window over there. An unseen audience is on the other side. Donald Trump preens before it, seeing only his likeness. He doesn’t realize that on the other side beyond his gaze, viewing him and his party with disgust and alarm, are millions of young voters…
That was fun, wasn’t it? Since November, Republican leaders had nothing to celebrate. Nada. Last week, though, they tied one on after the 300-plus pages of the Mueller report were summed up on a Snapple cap. “Par-tay,” rejoiced the party of officially sanctioned corruption. Mitch McConnell…
Donald Trump picks up the pepperoni phone. He orders the usual: “Double meat. Double cheese. No collusion.” No collusion? Whatever the truth might be, this man is the very last source to which to turn. In sweet, deceitful spin, that single word – “collusion” — which doesn’t…
Unsurprisingly, the chatter is dense and immense about how barely ordinary children of celebrity parents managed to get into prestige universities with winks, nods and wads of green. These are terrible injustices considering who didn’t get admitted. But let’s not belabor how Jared Kushner got into Harvard or…
Jerry Seinfeld’s great line is that sports fans’ allegiance is not to athletes but to laundry. One's passion hinges on who wears what uniform. Sadly, so too it is with religion. Too often it’s only marginally about what a savior might do and almost entirely about what vestments…
“Well, I don’t believe him.” “Well, what part don’t you believe?” What we hear from Trump lock-steppers about Michael Cohen reminds me of what the same people said when Michael Moore came out with his explosive “Fahrenheit 9/11” about the lie-filled build-up to invading Iraq. The film has…
Righteous condemnation is being directed at the Catholic Church for child abuse horrors too numerous to count. It’s time to condemn another group of believers for a practice that is just as ungodly, and just as predatory. It goes by “gay cure,” or “restorative therapy” or “conversion…
It’s always against our better judgment that my wife and I check in to see what Fox News is reporting. I don’t even recall why we did it. Was it to see how Fox was reporting the story that Justice Department officials discussed using the 25th Amendment to…
Snowed in on a brittle February day, I spent it watching a drug commercial. OK, the ad didn’t last the whole day. It just seemed like it. Indeed, all 60 seconds of it still plays out in my mind. Good job, makers of Dupixent. Don’t look it…