The old saying is that in politics You campaign in poetry, and govern in prose. And never has that been more true than with President Joe Biden. Although with Biden the poetry is more like an Irish limerick than Keats, and...
I have admit this particular count in this week's federal indictment of Trump for January 6 didn't strike a chord with me. If you're like me you wanted to see a Sedition charge. Well, there's been plenty of commentary...
The video you're about to see is ugly. Primitive, bestial, disgraceful ugly. That it would happen in any civilized country in the world is appalling.
I debated whether to post this here today, because it is so ugly, but I...
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, USA Today and other affiliated newspapers dropped the “Dibert” Daily cartoon from their comics sections after Dilbert creator Scott Adams posted a whiny racist post about the travails of being a white man in America...
Not all wars start with some single, cataclysmic event, like Germany pouring over the borders of the European Low Countries on the morning of May 10, 1940, and officially kicked off World War II. Sometimes it's a fuck up.
As...
After watching video of a couple of hundred young, vapid bucket heads, too embarrassed to show their faces, march down the steps of the Lincoln Monument with Nazi regalia, plastic Viking shields, and upside down American flags, Rachel Maddow's...
John Lewis left an essay to be published as an opinion piece on the day of his funeral. It is a stirring encapsulation of the forces that motivated the young boy to become the great man that he did,...
I've been rich, and I've been poor, and believe me, rich is better Sophie Tucker
You all know that I've been following politics with more avidity than the Cubs box scores for some 50 years now. And politics ebbs and...
Sunday in Washington was ugly. There were several thousand QAnon supporters, and other mental retreads that showed up at the Washington Monument to march to the Lincoln Memorial in a giant anti vaccine rally. Only don't call it that! They prefer...
Having a black skin in America is an invitation to hassles that the rest of us wouldn't even think were possible. Check out this news story in Michigan, where a black man and his won went home shopping one...
