It’s impossible to think of someone as intelligent if they have other traits that thwart the results one would expect from intelligence.
A friend of mine who leans conservative tagged me in a post whose title was a play on the old saying “A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.” Which is a clever rhetorical turn. I won’t deny that. But I…
My mom has two yorkies. One of my favorite games, when I am home, is to rev the dogs up by smacking the floor with my open palms. They get so worked up and excited that, inevitably, while…
I brought this up at The Underground Service yesterday, but I also wanted to post about it. Everyone seems real shocked that people turned up to Trump’s rally and that the parts of the country that voted for him…
Donald Trump is not a genius. He’s not playing 12 dimensional chess. The journalists who are investigating the Russia links are still investigating the Russia links. No one was thrown off course by the psychotic press conference. It was not a…
There is this on-going theme that each Trump horror that gets the most attention is just a distraction from whatever horror took second of third place behind…
Deep breath.
You have to pace yourself, take care of your own mental stability, and attend to whatever job pays your rent. Don’t try to fight everything at once. If you did The Ban yesterday, do Bannon and the…
We have to start by believing that our nation and our democracy can and will survive this, that this is one backwards step on a long march forward. We have to remind ourselves that the power resides ultimately…
Trump’s refusal to sit for security briefings, his dismissal and public undermining of intelligence services, his insistence on staying involved with his businesses and TV show, and the staffing of every department and cabinet…
There is a Van Morrison song called Sweet Thing. I first came across it when I was twenty-one years old and living with a girl for the first time and she had a Greatest Hits collection that the song was on. I got caught on it and found myself listening to it over and over again. The part that had snagged…