Mar 29, 2021Overcoming Your Trump Addiction… And fleeing the Dictatorship of the Gullible — I belong to a medically underserved population trying to rid itself of a Trump addiction. We’re users, hopheads, junkies. No rehab facility. Failing to overcome the addiction means relapse, new seizures of sputtering rage, and driving friends and families away again. They are as tired of this as we are. …Politics5 min read
Nov 16, 2020Can He Pull This Off?The President Has Only Nuclear Options Left — On December 14th, state officials will gather to approve either a Democratic or Republican slate of electors for their state. Historically, the states simply adopt the slate of electors offered by the party that won their state. If all goes according to law and custom, slates representing 306 Electoral College…Politics5 min read
May 24, 2020A Blueprint for an Eternal Trump AdministrationWhat If He Won’t Leave? Some weeks ago, I happened to catch a favorite old movie. Seven Days in May is about a widely popular general, a powerful senator and the Joint Chiefs of Staff — outraged by a daring new disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union — conspiring to…Trump6 min read
Mar 3, 2020The Despair of the Holdout Newspaper ReadersWhen holdouts flee, it’s not bias, accuracy or hoaxes Democracy, as the Washington Post reminds us, dies in darkness. For whatever light daily newspapers still shed, of course, it’s already dusk. Fifty-six dailies closed or merged from 2004 to 2016. In all, more than 20% of the nation’s newspapers (including…Newspapers7 min read
Jan 12, 2020The Mystery Isn’t Why He Lies, It’s Why We ListenOr Is It Just Flirting With Extinction? According to the Washington Post as of mid-December 2019, We the People have been asked to make sense of the 15,413 “false and misleading claims” coming out of the White House since inauguration. The pace is quickening. The president hit 7,688 false claims…Politics7 min read
Aug 5, 2019How America Came to Accept the Unacceptable“If you ever wondered how Germans went about their daily lives, you know now.” I am of a family that had to choose whether to leave Germany as Nazis came to power in the 1930s. Though disenfranchised and intimidated by the street assaults and arsons, most of my relatives chose…Politics7 min read
Jun 3, 2019No U.S. President Has Ever Blown Re-election During WartimeWar Clouds Gather in the Persian Gulf. Rain in the 2020 Forecast. — Those who ignore the past, it’s said, are doomed to repeat it. President Trump, who frequently changes his mind, maintains that he does not want a war with Iran. On the other hand, he is up for a difficult re-election campaign in 2020 and no U.S. …Trump Administration7 min read
May 21, 2019The New Anti-Abortion Laws Are Straight Outta ShariaThe same guys warning of a cruel “Islamization” of America out-Islam Islamic law In last week’s dimming of the Enlightenment, severe abortion bans emerged from state legislatures en masse. …Politics5 min read
Apr 28, 2019Which Emperor Does Donald Trump Resemble Most?Brief Lessons From 1800 Years Ago In February, the distinguished Mary Beard gave an academic talk in Rome and, as a Classics professor at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Ancient Literature, mentioned that reporters often asked her which Roman emperor Donald Trump is…Politics Trump3 min read
Mar 4, 2019A Modest Proposal To Carve The Whole Thing UpA Modest Proposal To Carve The Whole Thing Up Keep The Electoral College As Is, But Not Really My state (Colorado) recently joined 11 others ready to commit their Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate who gets the biggest national popular vote. It is a capital idea, and a…Politics6 min read
