Joanne got home from the theater (she's a volunteer usher) around 10:30 and we caught Lawrence O'Donnell's MSNBC show. He had Lawrence Tribe, Harvard Law prof, who really trashed Turley's notion (which I reported earlier tonight) that the impeachment Dems ought to slow down and deepen their investigation into Trumpsky ( 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... )

So, yeah, I'm watching a little TV, here in central eastern FL -- and Rachel Maddow is on, saying that the main newspaper of Orlando (80 miles from here), the Sentinal, has gone on record NOT endorsing Donald J.Trumpsky in 2020 ( Read more... )

In the past several days, I've seen a couple of unusual TV ads for a new generation of Volkswagen. They start by referring -- quite frankly -- to the huge scandal of the company "fudging" their pollution-control standards. A weird way to sell me a car ( Read more... )

Someone recently argued to me the Pelosi position (gosh, that sound LOTS sexier than it, in fact, IS!) -- that we not indict the bastard just yet, lest we enhance his likely claim to martyrdom in 2020 ( Read more... )

I just read a pair of articles in today's Wall St.Journal, both regarding efforrs to get more affordable housing in urban areas. I've heard about crazy trends in rentals in places like San Francisco -- for which Berlin stands in quite nicely. And I've presumed there MUST be places where housing pressures aren't so insane -- and, surprise! Tokyo is ( Read more... )

My apologies to one and all for not posting in the last three weeks. The Mid-term elections yesterday kind of overwhelmed me, and -- suddenly -- they were past ( Read more... )

Joanne and I went to the first showing of Spielberg's "The Post" here in Vero Beach. (It premiered in December in Washington, of course.) The film is marvelous, right up there with "All the President's Men" (which came out two decades ago) -- and it is sorely needed after this first wretched year of Trumpsky's reign ( Read more... )

Last week, I read with interest the new book by Sen. Jeff Flake (he of the truly unfortunate family-name!), "Conscience of a Conservative." It is far better written and more thoughtful than any screed by a Republican in my experience ( Read more... )

An Aussie doctor, Lisa Pryor, wrote an op-ed in today's NYTimes, very sad for what Trumpsky has been up to ( Read more... )