I’m going fishing this week – metaphorically, anyway – because I need a break. Let’s meet up here again after Labor Day. But before I go, permit me to quote myself. On the eve of the ’16 election, I urgently warned (for what it was worth, which was nothing) that...
First of all, those maskless South Lawn cultists who soaked up Donald Trump’s serial lies with a dearth of social distancing should be required to wear badges identifying themselves as MAGA Super-Spreaders. That way, innocents on the street can flee their presence...
I soldiered through the red meat of Mike Pence’s convention address – noting the omissions (180,000 pandemic dead) and the lies (“we’re re-opening America’s schools,” many of which, in truth, are closing or in chaos) – and alas, I waited in vain for even a passing...
Is there a more sickening symbol of Republican decrepitude than Rand Paul? OK, you might well nominate Lindsey Graham, who in a previous life rightly called Donald Trump a “jackass” and an “idiot,” but Graham isn’t speaking at the Republican convention, mostly because...
Aw, gee. The Trumpist Republicans have broken their promise. Who could have ever seen that coming? They vowed to stage an upbeat, optimistic convention – to offer, in the words of chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, “an aspirational vision toward the next four years.” But what...
