While you’re at it, Mr. President, burn the furniture. You’ve shoved the sofa up against the door. You’ve cut the phone lines. You’ve hung a bed sheet out the window. You’ve stripped off that dress shirt, donning that red tie as a head band. “Attica. Attica.” Donald Trump can’t tell Congress what to do, doesn’t…
DetailsThe Denver Post’s top headline after one of the gun lobby’s very best customers killed 59 people from above read thusly: “NRA supports restriction.” Yes, the top story was what the NRA might do after all that killing. It wasn’t, “Congress admits cowardice in the face of carnage.” It wasn’t, “President lifts thumb to avert…
DetailsWhat a tremendous statue this will make: Donald Trump aboard his golf cart, his polo shirt overstuffed, his ball cap pulled down to his brow, observing the world from his secure tee box. An image for the ages, like Washington in the rowboat and MacArthur in the surf. Let us start carving the man for…
Details“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear” – George Orwell. This strand of freedom means nothing at all to Donald Trump. At every turn he shows no grasp, and certainly no reverence, for the fundamental liberty enshrined in our Constitution: to speak…
DetailsHe started out as a radar image on the outer reaches of the American psyche, with little likelihood of harming anyone. Winds shifted. He became a threat to the mainland. His image appeared on our TV screens. The breathless watch ensued. Now the threat has passed. No longer a storm: Steve Bannon is not even…
DetailsWatching terrifying radar of what scientists predicted — Irma’s march up the Florida peninsula — a thought occurred about a tranquil and serendipitous observation days earlier. That brilliant day we knew exactly when the sun and moon would intersect – the solar eclipse. Yes, down to the second. Science gave us a drumroll. We trusted…
DetailsIt took only a few days and 50 inches of rain. President Trump, who was threatening to shut down the government just the other day, suddenly realizes that, maybe, government has some things to do other than deliver to him his shiny border-wall bauble. Texas Sens. Ted Cruz, John Cornyn and other Texas anti-spending posers suddenly find…
DetailsThe headline said, “Echoes of Vietnam in Trump’s about-face on Afghanistan.” Said my wife, “He’d have to have a face for that to happen.” Yep. Here was a guy who in 2013 tweeted that U.S. involvement there was “a complete waste.” Now he says it’s worth thousands more American troops. He’s just a bundle of…
DetailsAdventures in spinelessness: The year Jesse Owens burned bright under Nazism’s glare, a grave injustice was obscured beneath the Olympic flame. Avery Brundage, head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, held out two American Jewish sprinters from the 1936 Games so as not to anger Adolph Hitler should Jews mount the medal stand. Why? Simple. Brundage…
DetailsWhere was Sebastian Gorka to set us straight? When a Nazi sympathizer ran down people protesting a “Unite the Right” rally in Virginia, why didn’t the Trump administration have Gorka speak for it like he did when a bomb destroyed a mosque in Bloomington, Minn.? At that time, Gorka, deputy assistant to the president, cautioned…
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