Stallion Cornell

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

Dutchand Ernie were each serving twenty-year sentences at Jojo State Prison in southern North Dakota.  For reasons unexplained, neither of them had faces, but that's not important to the story.Both guys had gotten quite close to Horace Flimpson, who had served as warden of the prison since 1987. But Horace was getting on in ... Read more

Forthe past two days, I have had a series of exhausting Facebook discussions about the election results. In order to make my point, I've had to defend, albeit halfheartedly, some truly awful people, Donald Trump being the chief among them, but Steve Bannon being a close second.I do not like Donald Trump or Steve Bannon. ... Read more

Sowhenever I post something here and link to it on Facebook, the conversation all takes place over there and not here. For those of you who are not my FB friends, you should know that my earlier post today has ignited something of a firestorm.“I quit reading after the 4th paragraph,” wrote one friend. “Not ... Read more

I’mgoing to try and thread a needle here that may not be threadable. So if I fail, it’s Donald Trump’s fault.Indeed, I want to be clear at the outset that a lot of things are Donald Trump’s fault. I have believed, from the outset of the campaign, that he is wholly unfit to be President ... Read more

Sowhat now?Not everyone is asking that question yet. Emotions are still raw, and it will take time for many to heal. I’m grateful to note that my FB feed is almost entirely gloat-free, and last night’s winners seem to have no appetite for adding to the pain of the Hillary supporters. I take that as ... Read more

Ihave had a number of complaints, online and off, that I have not been living up to my punditious* responsibilities in 2016, and to that I plead guilty. I have spent far less time talking about this dreadful election than I have in previous cycles, but, ironically, far more time talking about it than I would ... Read more

Whenmy father first ran for the U.S. Senate in 1992, his Democratic opponent was a congressman named Wayne Owens, who had been caught up in the House Post Office Scandal. (You've probably forgotten about that. It was a big brouhaha back in the day, but measured against 21st Century political sleaze, it seems almost quaint.) ... Read more