I spent a week in Springfield, Ohio way back in 1992, when it was reputed to be a swing-voting city in a swing state. I wrote that “it was built by the calloused hands of the working man – a place where cigarettes are ‘smokes,’ where the men...
I know we’re still dining out on the decrepit demagogue’s debate-night nonsense about Haitian immigrants feasting on white people’s pets. But I contend that one of the best thigh-slapping moments came later on, when he was queried about whether...
The showdown last night – pitting a devotee of democracy who aspires to be our next president against a groupie of autocracy who aspires to be our last-ever president – was more delicious than an ice cream sundae with cherry on top. Thanks to a shrewd...
Before I dampen your expectations about the impending Harris-Trump debate (“will she kick his ass?”) by contending that it may prove to be meaningless, it’s worth pointing out that, in essence, the pairing itself is ludicrous. We have devolved to the...
There’s a new word making the rounds. I don’t know who coined it, but I like it: Sanewashing. That perfectly describes the mainstream media’s ongoing impulse to sanitize Donald Trump’s batshittery, to clean up his imbecilic verbal droppings...
