Ever since Donald Trump winged into Colorado to speak to the 2019 class of the Air Force Academy, I’ve tried to put myself in the well-shone shoes of those cadets. The man who spoke at their commissioning literally has their lives in his hands. I wonder about those…
DetailsIt’s dark wood and cost $500, a figure that made my wife and I me wince. Then we smiled. The young couple’s new dining room table showed they had graduated past second-hand stores — and that their relationship is in its own stages of matriculation. For a…
DetailsIt wasn’t “meddling.” It wasn’t “interference.” It was “an attack” on our democracy: Robert Mueller. It wasn’t one “400-pound guy” on a couch: Donald Trump. It wasn’t “a couple of Facebook ads”: Jared Kushner. It was a systematic operation by a foreign government that helped Trump become our…
DetailsNPR still got the car. The donation to public radio was the wish of a son who had driven the ’98 Mazda, its red paint peeling, until its dying moments. I was in favor, since public broadcasting needs our support in the face of Republican exercises in…
DetailsI don’t know the 17th century conditions that caused British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli to describe conservative government as “organized hypocrisy.” I do know what it means in the 21st century. Friday the U.S. House passed legislation to prevent discrimination against people based on sexual orientation. The bill is DOA…
DetailsDonald Trump Jr. is a big boy, purportedly, and is hardly shy around a microphone. So why not slide that chronically protruded chest toward a mike before the Senate Intelligence Committee? Republicans are throwing a toddler tantrum, all tears and slobber, at the thought. Why? Let the man talk.…
DetailsI’m stunned at this late moment that we haven’t seen a presidential tweet – exhausting all 280 characters and all 11 syllables of Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos’ last name. Dot. Dot. Dot. If Donald Trump considers himself a Fox News hound, what’s with his failure to exploit that name and all the angst…
DetailsIn Colorado the other day, it was time for many parents to have the talk. The talk about a dangerous world. The talk about safety at school. Many parents had time and motivation to do this because a woman with a gun made threats that shut down…
DetailsWas it Moe? Or Larry or Curly? I had to roll the tape in my head to determine which Stooge our president portrayed as he climbed his figurative hook and ladder to advise Paris on how to save Notre Dame Cathedral from destruction. That he offered himself at…
DetailsYou didn’t expect a pre-test, but: Which presidential candidate coined the term “rigged economy”? (A) Bernie Sanders; (B) Elizabeth Warren; (C) Jill Stein; (D) Donald Trump. Answer: D. OK, actual parentage may be in dispute. Patrick Henry might have uttered the phrase first. However, Trump – yes,…
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