Mass Shootings: An American Institution | Commentary
Three young men and football players at the University of Virginia lost their lives in a mass shooting that wounded two others returning from a class excursion. The three young … Read More
Tag: JoeBiden
Republicans Feeding the Birds
Most of us have lived next door to a man or woman who opens the backdoor to their home, welcomes the morning sun, and tosses out breadcrumbs for the birds. … Read More
Giving Joe’s Peace a Chance
Russia’s fascist, authoritarian leader Vladimir Putin, accusing the Ukraine president of being a Nazi is unbelievable. Despite Putin’s Hitler-like statement, “I am convinced that this natural and necessary self-cleansing [of … Read More
Hillary tweets perfect response to Russia's move to sanction her
Short, sweet, to the point and, above all, awesome. Today, Russia announced it was sanctioning President Biden and several other current and former U.S. officials—including, for some reason, former Secretary … Read More
The White Underbelly
Right-wing provocateur and author Ann Coulter, in 2017, told the world, “In 20 years, Russia will be the only country that is recognizably European.” Coulter was not trying to be … Read More
Lost in Space
Warning, warning! I ventured off the planet for a few days and visited Fox Universe. I was told that President Joe Biden controls gas and petroleum prices. Putin is not … Read More
All roads lead to Putin: Trump pressured Saudis to cut oil production in 2020 to raise global prices
Okay, let’s be fair about this. You could argue that the U.S. had a legitimate interest in propping up global oil prices during the COVID-caused 2020 recession in order to aid … Read More
Opinion: Biden and the State of the Performers
President Joe Biden delivered the State of the Union Address last night, and the GOP performed human-pet tricks. The popping up and down like a Whack-A-Mole game may be great … Read More
Mass Murder is not War
The nobility commended to war is romanticized as a brave and patriotic encounter when reviewing history. Familiar to Americans, the American Revolution and World War II come to mind as … Read More
Allow Me a Little Paranoia
Vladimir Putin has made his second foray into Ukrainian territory since 2014, first Crimea and now poised to march into Kyiv. Both moves were against Democratic presidents, and both seem … Read More
Black-Woman is more than an Adjective
It was predictable that the Republicans would drive down racist-trope avenue to disparage a mythical black woman. President Biden pledged to pick a black woman for the Supreme Court, and the GOP is … Read More
Blame to go around…
Blaming Joe Biden for the coronavirus spread is like blaming the surgeon for not saving the victim of a gunshot wound to the head. American conservatives, and a willing press, … Read More
A mother was asked why she'll never move back to America. She made some great points.
My ancestors—Hans Gruber, Wilhelm Belsnickel, John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, et al.—immigrated to the U.S. in the 1870s. They were part of a major wave of German immigrants who settled in … Read More
Things look pretty grim right now, but hope lives forever if we refuse to let it die
A few years ago I started on antidepressants. I dithered for many years about taking meds—for a variety of reasons. I was suspicious of Big Pharma. I was convinced the … Read More
Bringing a McAuliffe to a Gun Fight
The freshly defeated Democratic nominee for Governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, is a lousy politician. Let me preface the past statement with the admission that if I lived in Virginia, I … Read More
Dem strategist: Let's remind voters of GOP's 'universal opposition' to making their lives better
The interminable negotiations over Joe Biden’s Build Back Better human infrastructure plan make me feel a little like I did at this time last year, when I was still wondering … Read More
Sinema plays silly games with Mitt Romney as world impatiently awaits her answer on Biden agenda
I half expected Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to show up on the Senate floor today dressed as Ramses II, arriving on a pink, three-legged Shetland pony before airily plucking imaginary Skittles from … Read More
The American People?
With roughly a third of Americans who identify themselves as Republicans, the party bombards us with the term American People at every utterance. With almost 60% of the country fully … Read More
Protecting America and Protecting the People
The straight news or punditry often starts with the premise of scaring the American people away with a price tag. From the Biden Build Back Better plan reporting, one would … Read More
Krugman: Future historians will be 'astonished' that we let the planet burn to protect coal
Somewhere along the line I got the impression that humans were smart. You know, tool use and written communication and reduced fat Corn Nuts and all that. Unfortunately, just because … Read More
Future historians will be 'astonished' that we let the planet burn to protect coal, economist says
Somewhere along the line I got the impression that humans were smart. You know, tool use and written communication and reduced fat Corn Nuts and all that. Unfortunately, just because … Read More
Manchin's response to Bernie's Build Back Better op-ed exposes his stark betrayal of West Virginians
For Christmas (and Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa), Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to give working-class West Virginians a child tax credit, child care assistance, free preschool, two free years of community … Read More
GOP congressman seems unaware of how unemployment insurance works, so Ocasio-Cortez helps him out
Tim Burchett is an actual U.S. representative from the state of Tennessee, and he apparently has no idea how unemployment insurance (UI) works. As in, we don’t (very rarely, anyway) pay … Read More
'Squid Game' director says show's repugnant American billionaire character 'resembles' Trump
If you haven’t seen Netflix’s Squid Game yet—well, what are you waiting for? If anything is a parable for our time, this is it. Too often meteoric cultural phenomena that … Read More
Ted Cruz makes light of his winter Cancun trip. Twitter reminds him that he's the joke
You could say Ted Cruz is about as funny as a debilitating brain parasite, but that would be imprecise. He’s as funny as a brain parasite attempting to do prop … Read More
Enough is Enough…
When I was a boy and strayed way, way past the rules of behavior set by my great-grandmother, she would say, “ enough is enough, and too much (sic) stinks.” … Read More
Fanaticism!
“…wearing a mask while playing was no different from wearing a parachute while skydiving.” The above quote is purportedly from the late Jacques Plante, former goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens … Read More
Chasing the Mob from Behind
Burned out at the end of the Joy-Ann Reid hour on MSNBC, I am ready for mindless tv. By that time, my intellectual palette is dulled by the talk of the … Read More
Intemperate Liar?
There is a lot of media hand-wringing over a little mind with tiny thoughts who has been elevated into a big political voice by the liberal press. Fox News propagandist … Read More
Politically Correct(ed)
Stories are and have been written about ninety-four-year-old Ms. Opal Lee and the lead-up to the signing of the bill declaring Juneteenth [June 19th] a holiday. Due partially to her … Read More
Former WH adviser Fiona Hill considered pulling a fire alarm during Helsinki Summit—to shut Trump up
I don’t know about you, but I used to feel pretty on edge whenever Donald Trump left the country. As bad as it was having him here, seeing him take … Read More
Rube Goldberg Would Be Confused
Rube Goldberg was an inventor and cartoonist who satirically depicted complicated machines to perform simple tasks used to show the absurdity of over-thinking. In March of 2016, with eight months … Read More
New polling shows President Biden has quickly restored America's stature in the eyes of the world
So now that we have a president who doesn’t pose an existential threat to NATO, respects climate change accords, takes worldwide pandemics seriously and won’t flatter dictators, threaten to nuke hurricanes, … Read More
New book says Trump may have conspiracy-theoried his way to defeat; thought Dems would replace Biden
So I may be burying the lede on this one—on purpose for once. The buried bit involves a bit of classic Trumpian projection that, sadly and predictably, ventures into the offensive. … Read More
Marjorie Greene demands Biden respond to Wuhan lab questions by 'June 31' … which isn't a thing
A couple of days ago, alleged congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene sent a letter to Joe Biden. I read it; you don’t have to. Unless you read at a third-grade level … Read More
Matt Gaetz on potential 2024 run: 'I am certain that I could whoop Joe Biden'
Ordinarily upon hearing something like this, I’d say Matt Gaetz has gotten in way over his head, but that would be physically impossible. I mean, look at that thing. Archaeologists still … Read More
GOP Says Biden in Chaos – with WaPo Help
Not that I give a bloated goat fart in hell what the Republicans think, but does the Washington Post have to help them pass gas? Top left front page: Biden’s … Read More
Those committed to truth and facts must fight five times harder than the Republicans and their lies.
It depresses me to acknowledge this, but the Republicans’ commitment to blatant and serial lying, and Orwellian “make believe” governing, pose a real threat by overwhelming the public debate and individual’s efforts to stay … Read More
