On Becoming Anti-Bernie

I started out liking Bernie Sanders, though I leaned slightly toward Hillary Clinton. Yet I’ve come to the point where I can barely stand his face, and I just want him to stop jabbing his finger as he brays the same slogans in every single venue, over and over. How did I get to this…

Something Corrupted This Way Comes

Trump’s personal and business contacts with Russians in the U.S. and abroad, including in Russia, are extensive and go back decades. Linked to below, they raise the specter of his association in international money laundering and fraud schemes, and provide the backdrop…

Of Course Trump Is A Moron — And Pretending He’s Not Endangers Us All

You’ve probably seen this article from The Washington Post on Wednesday about the relationship between Rex Tillerson and Trump, entitled“Death Spiral: Tillerson Makes Nice But May Not Last Long With Trump” :

I Am Beside Myself

FBI Director James Comey should resign or be removed, and then serious housecleaning must begin. Regardless of your political leanings, Comey interfered with an election for personal political purposes — not to get Trump elected, but to save his own ass ahead of leaks that he could not prevent…

The Case for Marching

I’m going to the women’s march in D.C. on January 21, 2017 and I’m taking my family. Many of my friends and relatives are going — regardless of gender or race or ethnicity or sexual orientation or ability. If they can’t go to DC, they are marching in other cities — in San Francisco…

Seize the Narrative

Many have written about the threat Trump’s election poses to the rights and lives of millions of Americans — people of color, Muslims and Sikhs, Jews, immigrants, women (especially women who are not white), LGBTQ Americans, and the disabled — and to democracy itself. Recognition of this…

Spicer: Another Canary in the Coalmine

From Russia With Love

Trump’s tweet from the morning of January 11th is an astonishingly stupid and utterly bald-faced lie: