2020: a petri dish of dumb

            It’s the quote of the year, or the last four.             Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore’ described the matter as “operating on a level of stupid I have never seen before.”             It wasn’t just stupid, he said. It was “super stupid.”             So, which of the following…

My lawsuit against Texas

COMPLAINT: John Young, plaintiff, vs. State of Texas, defendant. Filed in: Court of Public Opinion, United States             Plaintiff John Young brings forth the following:             Plaintiff is a resident of the United States, Planet Earth.             Defendant is one of those United States, same planet.             In December of 2020, pursuant to the personal…

Free to pray, free to spray?

            It’s a busy season at Trump’s Pardon Workshop.             So many felonious enablers, so little time.             Add to them MAGA loony-pants Raymond Deskins, 61, of Sterling, Va.             Deskins, wearing a Trump-headed floaty around his sumo-sized waist, huffed and puffed on two women protesting outside the president’s Virginia…

That other heinous orange matter

            Momentarily you’ll forgive me for assuming, incorrectly, that Stacey Abrams had joined my cause.             With Thanksgiving approaching, regular readers of this column can understand why I misread her intentions when I heard the Democratic dynamo say something about “orange putrescence” in an MSNBC interview.             I thought, “Hell,…

Staging a sabotage of voters’ rights

            Herold. Azterodt. Mudd. Powell. Arnold.             Move aside.             Make room for company.             Giuliani. Graham. McConnell. Cruz. Bannon.             For those whose American history lessons have expired, that first bunch was convicted of a plot to facilitate the act of a charismatic assassin, John Wilkes Booth.             The…

My Joe Biden double fantasy

            I’m no front-runner, band-wagoner, Johnny-come-lately. I backed Joe Biden from the start.             Or at least from Aug. 30, 2018.             About that date in a moment.             I didn’t write about my support of Biden back then because I didn’t want to throw shade on any of the…

Paying the bill for all that is Trump

            The Trump presidency has been a collage of outrages.             The biggest outrage: It’s all been our tab.             Like the three-dollar glasses of water billed to us by Mar-a-Lago when Trump’s club raked in $37,500 hosting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.             Ahem. What did we pay for…