Asshole Donald messes up in Syria once again! On Monday, saying that limited U.S. troops would stay in southeast Syria: he told reporters "we need to secure the oil...at the request of Israel and Jordan ( Read more... )

A startling title, but that is how I -- and MILLIONS of my fellow Americans -- feel or SOON will feel about the Border Patrol (USBP), passively "going along" with official mistreatment of asylum seekers and other migrants ( Read more... )

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/world/europe/uk-brexit-boris-johnson.htmlRead 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... )

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

Today, Wednesday Dec 20, was a horrid day in the ongoing horror that is the Trump presidency. Two aspects are equally sordid and disgusting ( 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... )

I just read a terrific analysis of the Brexit fiasco. It comes from the well regarded Anglo-American author Zadie Smith, in the current New York Review of Books ( Read more... )

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dick-cheney-tries-to-fool-the-public-again/2015/09/08/9ee35e62-565c-11e5-8bb1-b488d231bba2_story.htmlRead more... )

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/the-precocious-country-teen-singer-is-gone-grown-up-taylor-swift-rules-pop/2015/07/13/ ( Read more... )