There are precious few members of the Democratic House caucus that have been more effective, harder working, and deeply intellectual than Jaimie Raskin from Maryland. Life had already dealt Raskin a gut-wrenching blow two years ago when his son...
There's an old saying in politics, If you're going to fuck up, fuck up early! In politics, Time heals all wounds, and the more time you give yourself to recover from a mistake, the better the chances that voters will forgive or forget about...
When the runaway train Roberts court overturned Roe v Wade, attention immediately  turned, thanks to far right dotard Clarence Thomas, to the possible revocation of gay rights and same sex marriage. Little wonder since Thomas licked his chops at revisiting the issue. There's just...
In order to understand Donald Trump you need to extrapolate from one of Eleanor Roosevelt's most famous comments. She said, "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." Add to that, "tiny minds discuss themselves,...
As that character in the old Laugh-In series from the 70's, used to say, "verrrrry interesting." Here is a new development in the Greene divorce. Yes, we speak of Marge and Perry. Perry took Marge, cloven hooves and all,...
Ask any actor or filmmaker and certainly any writer and they will tell you in a heartbeat that nobody knows how any creative work will be received. The Oscar-winning writer William Goldman famously condensed the concept down to "nobody...
Quint! I'm getting tired of chopping you up. Thought I'd try fire for a change   Wesley Snipes -- Blade How many times do we have to keep saying, GOD-DAMN! Now that oughta do it!? If cats have 9 lives, Trump is on what,...
Tyler Boebert is in the news once again. He's the 18-year-old son of Lauren Boebert and soon to be a father, with his 15-year-old girlfriend. The congresswoman is of course spinning this as a wonderful thing, that her minor...
The saga of the GOP's newest star keeps getting stranger and stranger. I was just reading an article on how Mike Johnson identifies himself as an acolyte of David Barton, the faux historian and progenitor of the fable that...
I can't get enough of this shit. By now, you all know both my personal feelings, as well as my professional assessment of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. He is the most craven, cowardly, sniveling worm in the history...

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