Donald Trump cut his Mar-a-Lago stay short and hurried back to Washington. Why? — To attempt to staunch a pandemic’s wave of death? To soothe legions of the bereaved? — To address the fact that on distribution, Warp Speed has yielded to Operation Molasses? — To calmly…
DetailsIt’s the quote of the year, or the last four. Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore’ described the matter as “operating on a level of stupid I have never seen before.” It wasn’t just stupid, he said. It was “super stupid.” So, which of the following…
DetailsCOMPLAINT: John Young, plaintiff, vs. State of Texas, defendant. Filed in: Court of Public Opinion, United States Plaintiff John Young brings forth the following: Plaintiff is a resident of the United States, Planet Earth. Defendant is one of those United States, same planet. In December of 2020, pursuant to the personal…
DetailsSign me up; pump me up – that sweet, biotech nectar. Anyone uneasy with it, step aside. As my wife has remarked, oh, 10,000 times over the last nine quarantined months, the fact that many won’t take the shot for COVID-19 means a vaccine sooner for us so…
DetailsSo what is the defiant deviant in the White House doing these days? Nothing at all to stem wave upon wave of new COVID infections, not even to acknowledge the human suffering or the waking nightmare of health professionals. Nothing to exhort miserly party brethren to help millions…
DetailsIt’s a busy season at Trump’s Pardon Workshop. So many felonious enablers, so little time. Add to them MAGA loony-pants Raymond Deskins, 61, of Sterling, Va. Deskins, wearing a Trump-headed floaty around his sumo-sized waist, huffed and puffed on two women protesting outside the president’s Virginia…
DetailsMomentarily you’ll forgive me for assuming, incorrectly, that Stacey Abrams had joined my cause. With Thanksgiving approaching, regular readers of this column can understand why I misread her intentions when I heard the Democratic dynamo say something about “orange putrescence” in an MSNBC interview. I thought, “Hell,…
DetailsHerold. Azterodt. Mudd. Powell. Arnold. Move aside. Make room for company. Giuliani. Graham. McConnell. Cruz. Bannon. For those whose American history lessons have expired, that first bunch was convicted of a plot to facilitate the act of a charismatic assassin, John Wilkes Booth. The…
DetailsI’m no front-runner, band-wagoner, Johnny-come-lately. I backed Joe Biden from the start. Or at least from Aug. 30, 2018. About that date in a moment. I didn’t write about my support of Biden back then because I didn’t want to throw shade on any of the…
DetailsThis is not fake news. Donald Trump does not run the country. You say he never did. You say the Constitution does. Ah, but he was prepared to show you differently. When he was impeached, Republicans in the U.S. Senate told him he could. All but…
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