I should have confined my mind to what spring was doing. Everything was greening under azure skies as I strode from the bus stop to where I teach. A season born anew should have won every ounce of my attention. Unfortunately, I couldn’t help but notice the litter of winter — a yellow fast-food wrapper; a…
Hearing Donald Trump prosecute the Big Lie and Republicans parrot it reminds me of another masterwork in group duplicity. Back when the George W. Bush White House hewed to shifting fallacious pretexts for invading Iraq, a friend remarked: “They have to meet every morning to keep their stories straight.” False comparison, I know: There’s nothing…
Not since Rocky Marciano relocated Ezzard Charles’ chin to an adjoining county. Not since a Chuck Stobbs fastball took a 565-foot ride on Mickey Mantle’s bat. Only in sport’s annals can adequate comparisons be found for the thumping Joe Biden laid on stationary Republican targets in Congress in his fourth State of the Union address.…
Based on any reasonable interpretation of Texas law, the highway cop who stopped Brandy Bottone on a Dallas thoroughfare asked the wrong question. Instead of, “License, insurance and vehicle registration,” he should have asked, “Do you have an embryo inside you? And what do you plan to do with it?” As the news story reported,…