The Tale of Hester Protester

Those of us who warned that violent talk on the MAGA right would lead to violent action have seen our predictions come true, in a slowly unfolding nightmare we seem powerless to stop. The most dangerous moment for the nation up to this point was, of course, the January 6…

A Folk Tale for Our Age Once upon a time in the mythical land of Murrica, where they say the streets are paved with fools’ gold, the time came to choose a new sovereign. Everyone expected the wise princess to become Queen, especially because the only other contender for the throne was a notorious swindler of…

Clichés are endlessly repeated for a reason: They are largely true, if so very true as to be banally obvious to everybody. This is the case with the well-known expression that if you strike at the king, you must kill him. Donald John Trump regards himself, and is regarded by…

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. …