There are times when I start a post with “there are times when…” and there are times when I don’t. The cold winter weather conditions in our nearly-beloved Washington DC area threaten to unleash the white stuff. For which people are nearly always not ready. Because the inhabitants are cynical…

Emperor Maltrumpio was very angry. His wall was not taking shape. He had promised his inbred relatives that he would build a wall around Trumpia, even though everyone thought his wall was a stupid idea. There was already a moat filled with sharks surrounding the kingdom, and nearly every inhabitant…

In every possible way, Donald Trump is unfit to run the country as the president. He is playing a role, a reality TV version of the “president,” and being a theatrical player is all he wanted, to be the center of attention of adoring masses on the world’s stage. (When…

The hottest bakery business news is that over at Make America Gape Again Bakers, their newest cake, the Trump-O-Phile, is flying off the shelves. Confident that very soon, the only thing that Donald Trump supporters will be able to do is to send a cake with a file in it to the prison, with red icing that says: “Good Luck, Donnie!” The Trump-O-Phile cake allows beaten and broken trumpettes to assuage their guilt, in a minimally painful way. (Only $49.95 plus shipping, plus an unspecified penalty for making unwise choices.)

Leave Robert Mueller Alone Robert Mueller is used to dealing with criminals, whether they are politicians or not. He may have solid, substantial evidence of Trump (or those within his orbit) having committed crimes, and wishes to question him, which is understandable. What is not understandable is the flack thrown…

Friday’s blockbuster announcement of the Mueller investigation indictments, as if that weren’t big enough, provided another cause for applause. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein must have felt both vindicated and proud, and should have taken a bow. Being forced — used really — to write the fallacious pretext document Trump…

This week is the AT&T pro-am golf tournament by the ocean in southern California. In the 1930’s travel in the US wasn’t the high-speed-whoosh it is today, and professional golfers in winter were mostly on the milder west coast, like migrating birds. Singer-actor Bing Crosby had the great idea to…

One of the interesting books on politics is the “Republic” by Plato. It’s one of the utopian books, an ideal society imagined by the author, governed by an ideal leader. Plato constructed a leader he called the “philosopher king,” someone of the highest virtue, honest, wise and good, whose priority…

Instructive but not surprising that Maltrumpio and his orchestra want us to think that he’s always working working working. And not playing golf. Our hypocrite-in-chief railed against Barack Obama’s golf outings, claiming he would not have time for playing golf, as he would be the busiest, most hard-working president in…