It DOES Matter If You’re Black Or White

It DOES Matter If You’re Black Or White

Just when you think the Republican candidate for President can’t sink any lower on the depths of objective human decency, along comes a performance like the one he offered up yesterday that reminds you that he most certainly can. As no less than FOUR Reuters journalists–Bianca Flowers, Trevor Hunnicutt, Nathan Layne and Nandita Bose gang-reported: … Read more

They’d Rather She Do Something Else

They’d Rather She Do Something Else

It was a newsworthy story, to be sure, but it didn’t necessarily need a well-known author to tell the world about it. In fact, it took two somewhat obscure PEOPLE staffers, Stephanie Wenger and JP Mangalindan, to author this yesterday: Norah O’Donnell is stepping down as anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News following the 2024 presidential … Read more

Judge Them By What They’ve Done, Not Who

Judge Them By What They’ve Done, Not Who

When the news broke Sunday that has evolved into Kamala Harris becoming the presumptive eleventh hour choice of the Democratic party to seek the presidency, some of my snarkier social media connections immediately went into tabloid and grade school mode.  Some saw this as confirmation of what a good friend of mine calls the “power … Read more

COVID?  Or Just Cold (Feet)?

COVID? Or Just Cold (Feet)?

The more this wacky, unpredictable and utterly exasperating presidential campaign summer drags on, the more difficult it becomes to understand why so many high-salaried and supposedly auspiced individuals appear increasingly incapable of taking some sort of action that might instill confidence from anyone other than blind faith devotees. The most recent chain of events that … Read more

Beverly Hillbilly Elegy?

Beverly Hillbilly Elegy?

So now we know who the future of America is, at least according to those who feverishly believe it has been preordained by the Lord Almighty.  Yesterday afternoon it was announced that J.D. Vance, not yet 40, barely a year and a half into his career of public service, was anointed to become the chosen … Read more

The “Kingmaker” Behind QuiBiden

The “Kingmaker” Behind QuiBiden

By my count, there are now at least three senior citizens of some prominence who are incapable of accurately understanding what the court of public opinion actually thinks about them. One, of course, is the presumptive Republican candidate for the presidency, that esteemed golfing legend who lovingly referenced his opponent as a “broken down pile … Read more

Can Jillary Save Democracy?

Can Jillary Save Democracy?

I’ve really been trying to avoid the almost nonstop cycle of spin, defensiveness and bravado that has dominated the news cycle since the debat-cle of Thursday night.  My roommate is positively stunned at what he perceives as completely blind arrogance on the part of the Democratic party and has relentlessly barraged me with alert after … Read more

Plenty of Questions.  Far Fewer Answers.

Plenty of Questions. Far Fewer Answers.

I fully realize an awful lot of people are panicked after the events of Thursday night.  That hue and cry grew only louder when a far more robust and hale version of the man who stuttered and fumbled his way through 90 embarrassing minutes proudly and defiantly addressed a partisan crowd yesterday which HUFFPOST’s S.V. … Read more