Monthly Archives: December 2024

Here’s a question you can ask of your Republican friends: if Trump were to encounter Michael Cohen on 5th Avenue, “borrow” a gun from a secret service agent, and shoot him down in cold blood, would that be an offense … Continue reading →

The New York Times recently surveyed a group of 14 voters who thought of Trump as extreme but decided to vote for him anyway. Here was the basic take-away from the Times: After the November election, we were curious about … Continue reading →

The reaction to the assassination of of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been, I must say, completely fascinating. Let’s start with the obvious. We shouldn’t be assassinating anyone here in the United States.  But, people have had such bad experiences … Continue reading →

There have been three times in my life when I came to realize that I am seriously out of touch with much of the American electorate. The first time came in 1980, when Ronald Reagan was elected President in a … Continue reading →

It’s killing me that people are all up in arms about Joe Biden pardoning his son because it sets a bad precedent and might lead to Trump pardoning more people. Are you fucking kidding me? If people cared about the … Continue reading →