May 2, 2020
It Just Doesn’t Matter
There was no China “travel ban,” OK?
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March 11, 2020
Let’s Be Honest
The 45th President of the United States of America is a horrible person. He’s a boor. As put in a recently popular description of why he’s unliked in the United Kingdom, “Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.â€
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August 5, 2019
We, The People…
One day, when we look back on our lives, we will be defined by the way we behaved in this moment.
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October 18, 2018
Res Ipsa Loquitur
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August 8, 2018
This Day In History
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June 27, 2018
Rules of Civility
I was just a kid April 4, 1968, when Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed in my hometown. My family – mom, dad, my younger brother Robert, and my baby sister Monica – were in the dining room finishing dinner when I rushed in from the TV room to announce the news. Both my parents had grown up in the east, in Brooklyn, but they’d lived in the south long enough to know a thing or two about race relations, and were savvy enough about “the times” to understand King’s assassination would be a momentous event, that it might change everything.
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February 6, 2018
It’s Unpresidented, This Bullshit
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January 8, 2018
The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill The Tax Man
Anti-tax zombie Grover Norquist posted a truly incredible tweet on Twitter Monday. Widely-known in the media (and somewhat in the popular consciousness) for his audacious quote, first published in 2001, that he wasn’t so much interested in abolishing government, rather, just wanted to shrink it to where it might be “drowned in a bathtub” – he is arguably the nation’s foremost one-trick pony arguing “tax is theft.”
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November 6, 2017
Folks, We Have a Winner
Do U.S. Presidents go into office looking to leave a particular legacy, or do their legacies stem more from their efforts, acts, and performance on-the-job?
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October 29, 2017
Very Fine People On All Sides
Jesus Fucking Christ. At long last, are there no decent people? I swear to God, were Lot alive and living in the U.S. today, I believe we might be well and truly fucked.
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