"Time is of the Essence." I first saw that in a legal context that applied to me back when I was married and we made our first offer to buy a house. In effect it means that once in...
Good morning, esteemed justices of the Supreme Court. To begin with, it seems to me that the ultimate test of the resolution of this case will revolve almost solely around the meaning of the word sedition. And as such, I offer the dictionary...
Ivanka Trump may have always been "Daddy's little girl," (sorry Tiffany) dropping everything to become a prominent adviser to her father when Donald Trump became president, nepotism and conflict of interest notwithstanding, she was involved in numerous scandals. You...
Donald Trump's spokeswoman, Liz Harrington has an interesting connection with the truth — mainly because she rarely speaks any of it. She's a good fit for Trump because both spew lies about the 2020 election and at one point,...
As I'm sure you know, "Justice" Clarence Thomas has become infamous for taking gobs of money and gifts, hugely expensive vacations especially from uber rich conservatives. (One in particular) Ok, so Thomas was already infamous before the revelations of...
I have been thinking quite a lot about John Lennon lately, especially since the world is in such disarray. Of course, the world has always been in disarray, well before the earliest recorded history, but with wars in Ukraine,...
Donald Trump uses a variety of tactics to get what he wants from people: He cajoles, he whines, he waves money around, makes promises. And sometimes, when that doesn't work, he makes threats. Just like he's doing now —...
I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle, here is my spout   Nursery rhyme You know, this takes a special kind of stupid. This is like somebody who spends something like 12 years in idiot college getting a PhD...
If anyone understands Donald Trump, it's former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, who is one of the former president's sharpest critics. Late last month, he aired concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court could issue a "horrific ruling" that might allow...
Lot's of big news today. Sometimes politicians will try quietly issuing a press release late on Friday hoping that over the weekend other news will come up and drown out what they had to say that's not so great...

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