Today’s question: How do you pronounce “Curses!” in Texan? Two syllables or three? Whatever. Some stove-piped hatters in an industry group nominally identified with Texas will curse out loud at some good tidings I now share: Electric cars are catching up with gasoline-powered cars in price. Demand is soaring. Indeed, with federal tax credits and…
Let’s check out the outrage on Fox News this week. What is it? “Woke” candy morsels? Death panels for natural gas stoves? Cheeseburgers snatched from the mouths of babes? So, what? No outrage: a tidal wave of death from maniacs bearing military-style weapons. No outrage: a planet reeling from drought, sea-level rise and extreme weather…
Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes. How do you measure, measure a year? How does a party on the outs measure a blown opportunity? Let’s just say that for Republicans there’s always next year. This year, in their second chance to rebut President Biden’s State of the Union, they bet that Americans wanted to…
Looking back, it all seems so long ago – another era entirely, an epoch committed to dusty catacombs and flaking Sanskrit. Surely it couldn’t be just two years since the end of Pharaoh’s reign. We sang songs about his departure. We celebrated his exile to his gold-plated compound. But King Trumptankhamun — “King Trump” of…