Happy New Year from the Conserva-Myth Party

            In time for New Year’s Eve, a big lie on a big Colorado billboard: “A Coloradan is killed every three days in a marijuana-related traffic crash,” it shouts.             Republican-dominated Weld County has deployed this demonstrable falsehood and other reefer-maddening roadside claims in a taxpayer-funded anti-pot campaign.             It’s…

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Got to get me one of those sweet-potato detectors

            I’ll take my shoes off to that.             Whatever the Transportation Security Administration wishes to do. Done.             Strip search. Check. Mouth scraping. Check. Hair sample. While it lasts.             I’ll surrender all fluids. Body scan? I’ll stretch out on the conveyor and slide along with the tennis rackets.…

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Truth is not in this man’s repertoire

            The front-page teaser read:             “Did Trump lie to Robert Mueller?”             The mind reacted:             What? Does Mueller have a television? Internet access?             Does Mueller have ears? Can he compute linguistic signals?             If any of the above, Trump lied to him just as he has lied…

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Trump defenders’ forked offensive

           With markers of Trumpian corruption amassing like a superbug strain in a petri dish, the Republican motorcade arrives at a fork in history’s road.             Ethical government? It’s thataway. Extending Trump’s reign? The other way.             Honesty? Legality? Basic decency? They went thataway.             Funny. I remember when the Republicans were all…

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