Well, here we are again. Sorry for the time delay, but I was tied up yesterday on personal business. But nothing in the intervening 24 hours has done anything to change my initial perceptions of what we saw Thursday...
There’s nothing worse than a blockbuster upcoming movie that spends three months showing nonstop “teaser” ads touting the flick, and then you plunk down $12 only to realize that all of the exciting parts in the teaser ads were...
Lllllllet's get reeeeeeady to RRRRRRRRUMBLEEEEE!!!   Michael Buffer Everybody off of the phone from their final calls to their caterer for their debate watch party buffets? Ya know, maybe it's just my "old codger" showing through, but I don't remember the...
Is national politics now a fly stuck in amber? Trump kicked off his 2020 reelection campaign Tuesday, kvetching about emails, "complete exoneration, no obstruction" and all of his usual talking points. Thursday, Roy Moore announced that he was back...
Trump can live in denial all he wants. He can call all of the negative polling out there "FAKE NEWS!" all he wants. He can pull imaginary numbers out of his ass, and he can fire his pollsters, who...
OK Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. It all kind of depends on what you're talking about, doesn't it? I'm 62 years old. Is it too early for me to consider taking up scuba diving? Maybe skydiving? How...
Trump has spent the past few days obsessing on how great his polls really are, even when his own pollsters have told him the unhappy news, that he's trailing front running Democrats in several key states. Anybody normal would...
Since the first time that Donald J Trump, Pestquire blustered and clanked his way down that schlock gilt escalator in Trump Tower, to the adoring applause of paid shills, it's been like the guy in that hotel chain commercial...
You know, when you observe something for a long time, whether professionally, or out of perverse personal pleasure, after a while you start to get a kind of a deel for the object of your attention, a normal flow that...
There have been all kinds of surprises so far in the Democratic primaries for President. One of them is that in the age of youthful activism, two old white dudes still top the field. Another surprise, at least to...

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead