Month: January 2017

WhenI keep telling you that Scott Adams's blog is required reading, it's not because I necessarily agree with him. It's because he has been the only observer that has accurately predicted the rise of Trump - and done so with eerie specificity. If you love Trump, or especially if you hate Trump, Adams is the only reliable ... Read more

In 1972, Jerry Lewis made a movie called "The Day the Clown Cried" about a clown in a Nazi concentration camp. It has never been released. It is supposedly so awful that Lewis has gone to great lengths to keep it hidden from view, even after he dies."You will never see it," he told Entertainment ... Read more

23 years ago this month, I was a newly-married young goofball living in the District of Columbia who had just started work as an intern in the office of Senator Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming. I adored Senator Simpson - and still do. I have often said that if he were running against my own ... Read more

KellyanneConway has blessedly introduced the phrase "alternative facts" into the national lexicon, and she has been roundly and rightly excoriated for her claims that hard data is actually a matter of opinion. I mean, yes, the sky is blue, but I offer the assertion that the sky is green as an alternative fact. Others have ... Read more

Got a very nice message from an old friend who told me she appreciates what I write, even though she disagrees with me on climate change and Hillary Clinton being evil. So I thought I’d talk about those two things as I keep blathering on about our new Trumpian reality.With regard to HRC, my opinion ... Read more

I'vebeen steering clear of Facebook, which has allowed me to gather my thoughts about Trump Nation absent the high-volume caterwauling that has defined social media lo these past couple of months. So pardon me for spewing all my unedited brain droppings here on my blog. I just can't seem to help myself.First, I found myself ... Read more

Thispast summer, I was at a wedding reception talking to a guy who was terrified about the trade deficit."Did you KNOW," he said, speaking in capital letters, "that the TRADE DEFICIT last year was 700 BILLION DOLLARS?!!" (That's him verbatim. You could absolutely hear the extra exclamation points after the question mark.)I told him I ... Read more

"Tomorrow,January 20, 2017 is a day of mourning," wrote a friend of mine on Facebook.  "Not only are we forced to say goodbye to the people who TRULY 'Made America Great', the best President, first family and Vice-president our generation will ever see, but we are also witnessing the death of a nation by swearing ... Read more