Unusual to see a writer you like being quoted in the papers about current events. Check this out ( Read more... )

I did some errands and got my annual glaucoma (cheered up by a new doc named Claire, who is definitely easy on the eyes) check-up, then home for lunch and made short work of the newspaper ( Read more... )

Sometimes I get pissed at certain papers (meaning the Times and the Post) and their Websites -- for their automated harrassment when you innocently want to refer your readers to one of their pieces. Like David Ignatius' important op-ed today on the high-stakes confrontation with Iran in the Persian Gulf ( Read more... )

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/business/rolling-stones-social-security-retirement.htmlRead more... )

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/an-invitation-to-impeach-in-mueller-ese/2019/05/29/5ba07690-8244-11e9-bce7-40b4105f7ca0_story.htmlRead more... )

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/06/27/feature/seeking-a-scientific-explanation-for-trans-identity-could-do-more-harm-than-good/Read more... )

Trumpsky is certainly the MOST dangerous Anerican, but cautiously conservative columnist George Will is no doubt right to call new National Security Advisor John Bolton the second-most ( Read more... )

Sorry not to be posting much these days. But life does sometimes get in the way ( Read more... )

Today's New Yorker reports on the House of Reprehensibles. -- er, Representatives ( Read more... )

Given the erstwhile "Repub" candidate's disgraceful public statements, comparing that asshole Putin to our democratically elected and otherwise terrific Barack Obama, I pledge to refer to the aforementioned "Repub" from here to November as "Trumpsky ( Read more... )