“Parasite (n): organism that lives on or in another organism (its host) and benefits by taking nutrients at the host’s expense.” Such life-sucking lifeforms are the topic of today’s commentary. One in particular. Not so fast. In this case, I’m not talking about the external, barnacle-style parasite, like the tick, the flea, the chigger, or…
Nothing could be more debasing than to have fighters extract blood from each other on the White House lawn while fat cats urge them on. Or so you thought. Consider a more gruesome beat-down at this president’s pleasure. Unbeknownst to most Americans, a UFC-style pummeling transpired at Mar-a-Lago in April. Big Tobacco did the damage.…
Ken Paxton. What can you say? To start out, say he can lie with the best. And by “best,” you know who that is. That would be the World’s Biggest Liar — WBL — he who commanded a stage on Jan. 6, 2021, shared by Paxton and select smarmy GOP conspirators. There the good ‘ol…
As aggressively as they eat, they aren’t good eating. Filet one. I dare you. Their innards have the consistency of a wrestling mat. And the aroma. Actually, that’s only speculation. To eat any such catch you’d need an oil tanker of lemon juice. The thing is, though they shine and gleam in the stream, they…
Define “we,” Mr. Secretary. The secretary of health — standing behind the president, who was nearly awake — stepped lively to field a question about the hantavirus on the cruise ship: “We’ve got it under control.” This would be true if he spoke broadly. “We,” meaning the human race. “We,” meaning the family of man.…
Before getting to what a brazen billionaire has in mind for CBS News and CNN, let’s talk about Stephen Colbert. Colbert’s show goes off the air May 21, yanked by CBS in advance of a hostile takeover. “Economic decision,” said network brass. That’s cheap lunch meat. Colbert has been the late-night leader most of his…
In January unless something happens akin to a New York Jets’ Super Bowl victory, the U.S. House of Representatives will have no black Republicans. And a lot fewer Republicans, period. The only blacks — four — now on that side of the House aisle are headed to retirement or are seeking offices in their home…
Baylor University’s Waco Hall is cavernous. At 2,200 seats it can make one feel grand or small, depending on the moment. The grand: Art Garfunkel sings “Bridge Over Troubled Water” to a symphony orchestra. I was there. The small: Turning Point USA stages a puny partisan pep rally there. It was going to be HUGE,…
It was news when the big, bad wolf who is president subjected a convened Supreme Court to a first-ever front-row staredown. More significant, however, was the moment he huffed and puffed out of the courtroom. He did it just as counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union stepped up to provide what likely is a…
Glancing at the grocery store newsstand, I caught the Page 1 image of a rocket blasting skyward in a ball of flame. “How many innocents will die when that hits its target?” I pondered. Then I realized it wasn’t a missile fired to decimate but a vessel to elevate mankind to previously unreached heights. Artemis…