I had just turned off MSNBC when the doorbell rang. A dark-skinned man stood outside. He pointed a menacing weapon at my head (later Googled as a laser-sighted bazooka). “Salir de su casa,” he ordered. Venezuelan for, “Get outta your house.” We exited onto barren streets, hands aloft. “So, Trump was right,” I said. We…
In Colorado, a certain number of specialty license plates show an image of the light purple-and-white state flower, the columbine, and the phrase, “Respect Life.” It’s tender and thoughtful, near poetry. And it’s propaganda. The state’s last Republican governor, Bill Owens, authorized it in 2000 after lawmakers rejected the idea. He said it memorialized the…
(With apologies to George Thorogood and the Destroyers) On the day I was born/ the nurses all gathered ‘round And they gazed in wide wonder/ at the joy they had found The head nurse spoke up/ said, “Leave this one alone.” She could tell right away/ I was a fraud to the bone. Fraud to…
It was Aug. 26, 2019, in Biarritz, France, and Donald Trump greeted a friend as only he could – and get away with it politically. Having repeatedly disgraced himself as our face and voice at another G7 economic conference, Trump topped things off in Trump style. As a sit-down with brutal Egyptian military ruler Abdel…
“Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species,” wrote Thomas Paine. Acknowledging degrees of truth in Paine’s quip, let me defend my genome. Don’t downgrade us all based on one corrupt man-child who believes himself born to rule. That would be Donald Trump. I demand not to have my value as a human commodity…