Back in the Golden Age of Gipperism, the plaintive cry used to arise from the further reaches of the Right to “let Reagan be Reagan!” By this, they meant that the President’s establishment Republican advisors should stop trying to explain to the befuddled old GE spokesman how government actually works…

Regular readers of this blog know that I am usually gloomy on the near- and long-term outlook for America and the world. The march of nouveau fascism often seems unstoppable. The Very Stable Genius’s buffoonish and chaotic tendencies aside, these people are extraordinarily well-organized in their multi-level assault on American…

Well, here’s some news of the galloping fascist takeover of America that’s been flying under the radar until now: The MAGAs are more than halfway toward calling a convention to rewrite the Constitution! You see, friends, under Article V of the 1789 Rube Goldberg document, if two-thirds of the state…

A letter to Verizon Customer Service I want to thank you for removing the so-called One America Network from your cable lineup, but I insist you go further and remove Fox News as well. Fox News is merely a better funded version of OAN. If anything, it is more dangerous…

When I was coming of age in the mid-to-late 1980s, being a Democrat was something like being a Boston Red Sox fan: we never won, we were starting to feel that we never could win, but we were lovable losers and, oh yeah, we were in the right. Saint Ronnie…

In last week’s hearing of the January 6 Committee, we heard testimony that on the day of the Capitol putsch, the Secret Service agents assigned to protect then-Vice President Mike Pence were calling their families over their service radios to say goodbye. …

There was once a refugee who lived with her husband in a slum, close by the seaside. The refugee used to go out all day long a-fishing in Jamaica Bay, just to get away from her husband, who was a nasty piece of work as much given to grandiloquent daydreams…

In topsy-turvy times like ours, virtues and vices change places all the time, at a disorienting pace. Take Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, the Fraidy-Cat Fascist. It’s not too much to call the cowardice of his run for his life from the very mob he helped incite to a frenzy…

An Aesop’s Fable Adapted for the Modern World A lion, tired out from the hunt, lay stretched out napping under a shady tree. Some MAGA Mice scrambling over him woke him up. Smacking his paw down on one of them, he was about to crush him, but the MAGA Mouse…