Having said that…
Lest anyone doubt that I am a defender of legal counsel, for even the most heinous of criminals, that is not the case. I believe everyone deserves the best defense they can buy or are afforded if not...
View ArticleGood Hair?
The recent case of DeAndre Arnold, a black Texas teen of Trinidadian extraction, who is not being allowed to walk the stage to celebrate his graduation because of a hairstyle is not as unique as you...
View ArticleDeny, Lie and Defy
There is a pattern of almost diseased behavior in the Trump White House that has become like a super virus; if this were China it would be surrounded by a corona. From the beginning it has been...
View ArticleHe was “Just” Kobe
Usually, when the word ‘just’ is used it is often seen as a reductive descriptor of one’s character, in this case, the word just made Kobe Bryant closer to us. On August 23, 1978, I sat next to my...
View ArticleBipartisanship is not the Panacea You Think
Pat Cipollone, the counsel for the President, cleverly introduced distracting video mocking two Congressional House Managers: Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Rep. Jerrold Nadler. The two specifically spoke...
View ArticleTap, Tap, Tap, Slide, Slide, Slide
Having now become a historical fountain of misconstrued Constitutional information, Alan Dershowitz surely borrowed a pair of tap shoes from the late dancer Gregory Hines. In addressing the assembled...
View ArticleRepublicans v. Real Americans
The once honorable Senator, then Rep. Lindsey Graham deemed in the 1998 Clinton Impeachment that as president “… your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role . . . because...
View ArticleStanding 'Blue' in the Breach
There are 11 Democrats still standing in the breach between democracy and autocracy in America. Last night President Trump’s deliverance of the State of the Union subjected us to another cavalcade of...
View ArticleFestivus, but what for the Rest of Us
I was transported yesterday from the East Room of the White House back to 1997 when the President spoke yesterday before an assembled group of embarrassing open-mouthed American political seals. In...
View ArticleTrump to evangelicals…
Seeing what you want to see to the exclusion of all else is not only to deny facts, it is dangerous. Proof of that is when Susan Collins and other Republicans said he [Trump] has learned his lesson....
View ArticleBAM!, ZONK!, WHAM!
It may be irony, schadenfreude or coincidence but we are crossing paths at the intersection of politics and Marvel or DC Comics. We have a blustering Joker as Head of State, Mr. Freeze as his second,...
View ArticleLady Justice is Blind, not Stupid
Lady Justice has functioned very well—for years, being blind, but now Donald Trump, William Barr, and Republican officialdom are rendering her mute. Last night, and for as long as Attorney General...
View ArticleUh, Bernie Bros and the OK Bloomers?
Chest thumpers and embarrassing belligerents are how the followers of Bernie Sanders are being described. The Michael Bloomberg crowd who I suppose are Bloomers, who find themselves in the unenviable...
View ArticleYou’ve been Warren(ed)
At the Democratic Presidential debate Wednesday night, former NY City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reacted as if Sen. Elizabeth Warren brought a nice chianti and fava beans to the event; she ate him alive....
View ArticleTalk to Grandma and Granddad for Real Black History
It was either three years prior to her birth, or when my great-grandmother (GG) was three years old, that the Wright Brothers flew for 12 seconds in a field just outside Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. My...
View ArticleThe Nuisance of Nuance
I am a Democrat, not a moderate, a liberal, a progressive or even a Democratic Socialist, but a Democrat. The Democratic candidates must learn to communicate the art of nuance and not treat it as a...
View ArticleThe Coronavirus: It is Political
For the past four days, I have heard Trump loyalists like Wilbur Ross and Larry Kudlow, disaffected Republicans like Meghan McCain and Ana Navarro-Cárdenas,‘woke’ or former Republicans like Nicolle...
View ArticleScience—Smience
Well, over the weekend, the President of the United States did what he does best, confused us, lied to us and denied the science. On Friday night in South Carolina, he continued his counterprogramming...
View ArticleLeft, or Center, just get 'em over
For you baseball fans out there, the managerial strategy is, get ‘em on, get ‘em over, and get ‘em home. Last evening, despite a billionaire throwing spitballs, Joe Biden hit a triple. With a short...
View ArticleCuring the Coronavirus is more than a ‘Hunch’
I have some really good friends in the teaching profession, one of whom (talking with the Eng. Lit. dept. to check if my use of whom was correct) is a biology teacher. The scientific process consists...
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