Cults in the news: In dusty little Moffat, Colo., seven people are charged with the strange crime of corpse abuse. The Love Has Won commune couldn’t let go — months after its leader expired — committing her decaying remains to a corner bedroom. Not to be…
Before discussing the state of minority rule regarding the health crisis of gun proliferation, a moment of silence for the National Rifle Association. Thank you. No, the NRA isn’t dead. It is, however, in a life-threatening pickle. It is frantically trying to skirt justice, Donald Trump-style, as New…
If this is “woke,” bring it. Add my voice to those calling on the NCAA to stick it to states that marginalize transgender individuals. That could mean pulling tournaments based on the NCAA Board of Governor’s April 12 statement that “firmly and unequivocally supports the opportunity for…
I’m waiting for my apology from Newsmax. Last week it apologized to Eric Coomer, director of security for Dominion Voting Systems, for spreading Republican lies about the 2020 election. It apologized for “any harm that our reporting” caused to Coomer and his family. They had received death threats generated…
“First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff.” Sad to say, that 2005 account from USA Today reflects not only the behavior…
Jim Jordan, cover your nose. A full-grown individual should know the function of a mask in a pandemic. There was the Ohio congressman, however, in full 3-year-old mode, his nasal instrument hanging out as he berated Anthony Fauci. Jordan was reprising a tiresome Republican act: assailing…
Half a league, half a league, half a league onward. All in the valley of Death rode the 10 thousand. “Forward the White Brigade!” Apologies to Alfred Lord Tennyson, but a certain full-of-self Republican in Texas has made the appropriation too easy. Last week the…
Wanted: a new location for the Major League All-Star Game. Qualifications: (1) must love baseball; (2) must show fidelity to self-government, meaning opposition to chicanery that makes it harder for poor people to vote. Georgia, you’re out, says Commissioner Rob Manfred. Hey, MLB, pick my state, Colorado. It has done great…
Louis Klarevas is alive only because it was a shotgun pointed in his face that day and not an AR-15. The gunman got off only one errant shot when Klarevas and his two frantic friends knocked the shotgun to the side and disarmed the maniac. Klarevas later learned that…
On a scale of pretentiousness, from 1 (Mr. Rogers) to 10 (Mr. T), Anthony Fauci is a 2 and Rand Paul is a 15. Badgering Fauci in a Senate hearing, Paul, who puts more stake in herd immunity than masks, said Fauci is “making policy based on conjecture.” …