When Marine general James Mattis resigned as Donald Trump’s secretary of defense at the end of 2018, he promised that he would avoid criticizing the sitting president. But he added, “There is a period in which I owe my silence. It’s not eternal. It’s not going to be forever.” Yesterday was the day the dam […]
As my readers know, I love a good rant. I’m particularly enamored of that rare rant that takes things to a higher level of refinement. And this one from Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist George F. Will has the added patina of being authored by a conservative who was a staunch Republican (until Donald Trump was elected). It […]
This segment by James Corden is incredibly powerful. I hope everyone watches it — in its entirety. There are some signs for hope that change is coming: The chief of police for Schenectady, NY does the right thing. He not only talks frankly with protesters, he marches with them and takes a knee for George […]
Joe Biden gives a speech that we will never hear from Donald Trump. I was pleased that Biden actually named Trump, but didn’t dwell on him excessively. The speech was about us, and about America. It gave me hope. UPDATE: This speech is getting very positive reviews. Well, except those commentators “whose paychecks are being […]
If this is what winning is like, then yeah, I’m tired of winning.
I found this photo particularly haunting: Protesters all over our nation are chanting “I can’t breathe” — the last words of George Floyd, who was murdered in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. Except that this image is not recent, it is from 2014. Kobe Bryant, along with his teammates, wore these shirts to […]
I realize that many of my readers also read Electoral Vote, which I have always encouraged. I still want to mention that they published another letter of mine today. My letter was a response to a question asked by D.A. from Brooklyn, NY yesterday. His letter took Elizabeth Warren to task for her shifting rhetoric […]
In Pennsylvania, the Republican dominated state legislature was trying to pass laws to open up the state. They were telling everyone it was safe, and that COVID-19 wasn’t a threat. What they weren’t telling anyone was that at least one of them had already tested positive for the disease. The Republican caucus knew, and they […]
Donald Trump seems to be happy to represent himself as a wartime president, despite somehow thinking that a good thing for the president to do during this “war” is play golf. Even if you ignore the “war” rhetoric, when Barack Obama was president Trump attacked him (more than once) for playing golf during the Ebola […]
A study from the Brookings Institution looks at counties that have newly been designated as having a “high prevalence” of COVID-19. These “high-risk” counties have at least 100 active cases per 100,000 people. The results are interesting: Starting on March 29, there were 59 counties considered high-risk, which represented 8% of the US population. Ending […]
Really interesting study about COVID-19 out of Columbia University. This study based their model on actual data at the county level (rather than state or even country), which is important because virus transmission is always local, and used 7-day averages, which is important to avoid data noise. The result that is getting all the headlines […]
Desi Lydic watches Fox News for 48 hours and then Foxsplains “Obamagate” on The Daily Show. It all makes sense to me now! For those who don’t like to watch Fox News, here’s a slightly different explanation of Obamagate:
Today the last episode (for now) of Some Good News (SGN) was released. You gotta watch it: I’ve posted a few of these here in Political Irony, but that doesn’t mean the other ones aren’t great. Collect them all! In fact, this final episode makes lots of references to previous episodes, so maybe go watch […]
We often hear about Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump, who set his son up in the Brooklyn slumlord business. However, we never hear anything about Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump. But just watching her son Donald try (and fail miserably) to send out Mother’s Day wishes this year, you gotta wonder what the hell? […]
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