Jerry Seinfeld’s great line is that sports fans’ allegiance is not to athletes but to laundry. One's passion hinges on who wears what uniform. Sadly, so too it is with religion. Too often it’s only marginally about what a savior might do and almost entirely about what vestments…
Details“Well, I don’t believe him.” “Well, what part don’t you believe?” What we hear from Trump lock-steppers about Michael Cohen reminds me of what the same people said when Michael Moore came out with his explosive “Fahrenheit 9/11” about the lie-filled build-up to invading Iraq. The film has…
DetailsRighteous condemnation is being directed at the Catholic Church for child abuse horrors too numerous to count. It’s time to condemn another group of believers for a practice that is just as ungodly, and just as predatory. It goes by “gay cure,” or “restorative therapy” or “conversion…
DetailsIt’s always against our better judgment that my wife and I check in to see what Fox News is reporting. I don’t even recall why we did it. Was it to see how Fox was reporting the story that Justice Department officials discussed using the 25th Amendment to…
DetailsSnowed in on a brittle February day, I spent it watching a drug commercial. OK, the ad didn’t last the whole day. It just seemed like it. Indeed, all 60 seconds of it still plays out in my mind. Good job, makers of Dupixent. Don’t look it…
DetailsDonald Trump was having a horrible month. Then Howard Schultz gave him a chance to flex his inner Biff. Trump hopes, hopes, hopes Schultz runs for president. And so President Biff did what his role model, the ruling oaf in “Back to the Future,” did to Marty…
DetailsRoger Stone’s lineage that is like the circulatory system of political corruption in America. Like a Mafia family tree. The man with a tattoo of Richard Nixon on his back was one of the baby Dirty Tricksters behind the varied activities that got Nixon booted from the White…
DetailsIt took till almost after lunchtime, Day 1 of this reign, for fact-checkers to start losing track of the torrent of lies flowing from President Donald Trump’s lips. Similarly, one loses track of the progression of his policies that judges have declared half-cocked, presumptive and unconstitutional. The…
DetailsNo one has the Trump administration figured out like satirist Andy Borowitz of The New Yorker. Here’s the headline to his post last week: “Sarah Huckabee Sanders offers to lie for free during shutdown.” It’s a tough job, carrying bucket after bucket of…
DetailsRenaming federal departments is nothing new. The Defense Department was the War Department. The State Department was Foreign Affairs. And in 2016 the nation’s steward of public lands became the Department of the Inferior. And with it the Environmental Pillaging Agency. Take bad science, add ethically malformed leaders, and…
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