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…
DetailsWanted: 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…
DetailsLouis 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…
DetailsOn 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.” …
Details“President Biden delivered his first prime-time address today to speak about the past year and present a hopeful vision of America in returning to normal, and then the Republicans were given 30 minutes for rebuttal.” – Seth Meyers So, a joke or not? Based on public opinion, the…
DetailsIn his 2013 best-seller “Spillover” (subtitle: “Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic”), David Quammen used quotation marks to introduce “superspreader” to the reading masses. Wholly unneeded keystrokes now — the meaning self-evident — I doubt a single Republican flinched to see Trump rallies denounced as superspreader events,…
DetailsClass, who can tell me what the Telecommunications Act of 1996 did to radio? I teach a college media class, so my students know. But I doubt a percent of a percent of Americans does. Spawned in a laboratory of a Republican Congress but given the electric jolt…
DetailsIt seems we need another economic indicator to gauge successful governing. Here we obsessively focus on the CPI, the GNP, the GDP, when we should be tracking LE – life expectancy. Unbelievably – or too believably – Americans’ life expectancy declined by a full year in the first…
DetailsSomeday, under an actual oath, before an actual jury, he’ll face actual questions to explain what he actually did. One from me: Mr. Ex-President, when you told the mob, “I’ll be right there with you,” why weren’t you? Forget your baseball bat? Body armor two sizes…
DetailsIt’s not something commonly seen on curricula vitae, but Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ chief qualification for the career move she now pursues is having been spokesperson for serial fabricator. Curious claim, yes. Reportedly, however, it is more than sufficient to be governor of Arkansas. Depending on the zip…
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