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... )

Ryan Lizza, on the New Yorker's Website, today quotes an unnamed White House personage to the effect that Trumpsky is "excited" about threats to shut down the USG a week from today! Holy shit! What insane assholes ( Read more... )

The Post had a bunch of reporting on the near-win in Georgia by Democrat Jon Ossoff. Trumpsky crowed about the National GOP's throwing millions of dollars at the race, in order to deny him what turned out to be a paltry one and a half percentage points for an outright win. Now Ossoff should handily win the June runoff, and there'll be even MORE ( Read more... )

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/opinion/all-the-presidents-lies.html?_r=0Read 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... )

It was a most peculiar late-fall weekend. Mostly, we're all recovering from the wretched Trump election last week: as the Prophet Bob long ago put it, "the times -- they are a-changin ( Read more... )

Need we ask, "Which motherfucker ( Read more... )

I just awoke, with an odd dream about WWII still fresh in my mind -- lots of curious details still vivid ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/opinion/trump-reaps-a-veep.html?action=click&contentCollection=Business%20Day&module=Trending&version=Full®ion= ( Read more... )

I just awoke, quite early (for me, anyway). Joanne, who always wakes early, got up and went out to read in the living room. (As you steady readers know, she and I don't usually sleep together -- but we have a houseguest whom we set up in the guestroom upstairs, meaning I temporarily moved back into what's become "Joanne's room ( Read more... )