The thrill is gone baby, the thrill is gone away BB King
Just because I haven’t been writing for the last three days doesn’t mean that I have been idle. Far from it. I’ve been laying on the sofa,...
Q: How many licks does it take to get to the middle of a Tootsie-Pop?
No, not that question, I was just jerkin’ your chain. But there is a very serious question in politics, one that has been brewing, in fact becoming more prevalent as...
There is no question that this has been an election of firsts, and some very fine firsts, indeed. The first black congresswoman elected from Massachusetts, Alyanna Pressley. Sharice Davids, the first Native American women ever elected to the House....
As a trauma victim from Election Day 2016 I find myself in a state of high anxiety since waking up yesterday. This morning my concentration is shot, but Rick Wilson does have a few simple rules that perhaps may...
Ya know, the funny thing about history is, it kind of takes a while. Like a fine single malt, it has to age properly before it can be fully appreciated. There is no way that two years counts as...
Political polling is one of the dark arts, “cloaked in a kind of scientific mysticism that sometimes feels deliberately opaque.” Everybody from Donald Trump to legitimate political journalists are known to take the result of one or two polls...
What? Am I worried? Nope, not at all. Actually, I’m fucking terrified. I can sum up my paranoia in three simple words. lifelong Cubs fan. November 2016 will never be number one for me, September 1969 scarred me for life, znd...
America is at a crossroads. We are more divided right now than we have been at any time since the Civil War. Since the election of Donald Trump, the level of dissent and division in this nation has reached...
The GOP is running scared on this one, whew, oh doggies! Heaven forfend Stacey Abrams should prevail. This ad eclipses Willy Horton. Willy Horton was sane and measured by today’s Trumpian standards. This is vile.
https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/1058791224180699138
And of course mixed up...
With the midterm elections a few days away, speculation is now heating up as to who Donald Trump’s adversary will be in the 2020 presidential race. All the usual cliched considerations are coming up, a progressive or a moderate,...
