We need to slam on the brakes right now and come to a screeching halt. The Post Office is the big story and the only story that merits full attention right now, in what continues to be a numbing...
I wonder when Donald Trump's aides are going to tell him the awful truth, that the year is not 1984 and moreover, even if it was, he's not Ronald Reagan. The man appears to be in a complete time...
Mr. Central Park Five, Donald Trump, is now on the warpath against the Biden campaign because four criminal defendants in Minnesota were released on bail money raised by the Minnesota Freedom Fund in the wake of the murder of...
Tuesday was quite a celebration. Joe Biden's choice of Kamala Harris was rejoiced on social media, while being savaged in Trump world -- what did you expect? The fact that the following ad went viral speaks to Harris' acceptance...
Last thing I remember, I was running for the door. I had to find the passage back to the place I was before   The Eagles   Hotel California The old advertising phrase is that Image is everything. But when they talk about Image, they're talking...
It came out quietly, almost anti climatically, by email. California Senator Kamala Harris is Joe Biden's choice for Vice President of the United States. And I'm certainly down with that. On all honesty, she was my second pick.  My pick...
The basic framework for both the Democratic as well as the Republican national conventions was actually laid all the way back in February, although nobody knew it at the time. But one decision made back in February forever changed the...
It's a shame that radio didn't exist in either the time of Caligula or Mad King George, because it would be interesting to compare how batshit either of them were with what we hear on a routine basis from...
This is another watershed moment in our politics, in an era which has been a non stop typhoon of watershed moments. Nate Silver at 538 shared the following disclaimer and rationale for the disclaimer, with respect to doing his...
This is one of the best written commentaries on the Trump years that you are ever likely to see. It's written in the style of a law review article, which was described to me once as a "trickle of...

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