Monthly Archives: June 2024

As people calm down a little bit over the debate on Thursday, it’s worth examining Trump’s tsunami of lies. As the historian Heather Cox Richardson noted,  This was not a debate. It was Trump using a technique that actually has … Continue reading →

Like many of the rest of you, I’m a little bit panicked by Biden’s debate performance, in which he looked old and feeble. As one commentator put it: Biden is saying true shit incoherently Trump is saying fake shit coherently … Continue reading →

The other day we were talking about how Trump has violated just about every of the Ten Commandments that Louisiana has now ordered to have posted in all of their public K-12 classrooms. But what about the Seven Deadly Sins? … Continue reading →

A lot of commentators have already noted it, but there really is something remarkably ironic about Louisiana decreeing that the Ten Commandments must be posted in every public classroom when their chosen candidate for President has been guilty of all … Continue reading →

I believe that I first became aware of the existence of Donald Trump when he appeared on the cover of People Magazine for the June 9, 1990 issue. This cover story focused on his financial troubles at the time, highlighting … Continue reading →

Remarkably enough, the Supreme Court came back with a decision the other day in the case about abortion medications — FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine — that threw out the attempt of a group of anti-abortion doctors to ban … Continue reading →