Y'all know me, I'm a cheerful pessimist. Some people say The glass is half full, and other people say that The glass is half empty. I say Get that thing off of the table, somebody's been drinking from that thing! We had another Covid briefing...
Once is an accident. Twice is a habit. The third time is a fetish A little while ago I wrote an article in which I touched on this subject, but now I think it's time to revisit it, and put...
I told you within 48 hours of the Uvalde shooting that somehow or other, this time just felt different. I couldn't put my finger on any 1 thing, it just felt different. But with the benefit of hindsight, I...
I wrote recently in passing that the national GOP was sending out updates and tutorials to try to instruct GOP candidates, both incumbents and challengers, on how to avoid getting bogged down into a no-win conversation about the Supreme...
DeSantis has a real challenge ahead of him. Republicans like DeSantis because he "is" Trump but without the problems. So DeSantis must adhere to the MAGA line at all costs. Indeed, his most famous stunts demonstrating his ability to "own...
These are people Al, who when they put one foot forward, have absolutely no clear idea of what to do with the other one   Drowned Hopes   Donald E Westlake Things are simmering along nicely in the GOP House Speaker Disaster...
John McCain is not well. This is not breaking news, obviously. But, the neuro-blastoma that has set-in, appears to not be responding to treatment (it basically never does), and the elder-statesman is making plans for his final arrangements. According...
Andrei Kozyrev Russia's former Secretary of Foreign Affairs warned that Trump "appeared to be repeating, almost verbatim, Putin’s talking points on a variety of topics." He added, that he believed Americans should be worried. That's strong stuff. We all suspect...
It has become a defining feature, perhaps the defining feature of the m(or)onarchy of King Schitwitz the First. And the longer we live under the thumb of Fumbles the Clown, the more pronounced it gets. I’m talking about the phenomena of...
Welp, they say all good things must come to an end, and after its week-long dominance of the trending on Twitter top spot #MoscowMitch is giving way to the richly deserved moniker #LeningradLindsey. Though Graham has been working hard 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