May You Live to Be 120—But No Older
2018-01-29 – The billionaires now want to live forever. And some of them are apparently spending their fortunes to make it happen. I get where they are coming from, particularly […]
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Getting Ready for Spring
2018-01-25 – No bullets in me. At least none that I am aware of. The docs wanted to know. So that’s what I told them. I’m having an MRI tomorrow […]
It Ain’t Necessarily Fake
2018-01-22 – Many liberals continue to brand Trump voters as “deplorables.” This term, of course, came from an ill-advised statement made by Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign that said: […]
If We’re Gonna Be Tribal, Let’s Really Go For It
2018-01-20 – There’s been a lot of “scholarly” talk about tribalism as the cause for the political dysfunction in this country. Okay. Whatever. The problem I have with this analysis […]
The Fierce Urgency of Now—After 55 Years
2018-01-08 – In 1963, Martin Luther King spoke these words in his “I Have a Dream” speech: We have . . . come to this hallowed spot to remind America […]
Trump Has the Right to Remain Silent
2018-01-11 – People are complaining that President Trump seems to be backtracking on his earlier commitment to talk to special counsel Robert Mueller under oath. They say that presidents are […]
I Wrote Last May About Trump’s Insanity Defense
2018-01-08 – The Republican leadership knew about Trump’s mental and moral unfitness to be president long before the 2016 election—even before the nomination. That’s why there was a stop-Trump movement […]
The Risks and Benefits of the Insane Tweets of Donald J. Trump
2018-01-04 – So many tweets! Each one can keep you spinning for days. I usually try to stay away from @realDonaldTrump. But one of his crazy tweets stuck in my […]
New Year’s Resolutions
2018-01-01 – Happy New Year! It’s that time of year again. But before I make any resolutions for 2018, how did I do in 2017? I completed four major goals of […]
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