Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the disease is presently raging anew because corporate-serving public officials rushed to “open the economy,” causing more infections and deaths.
So, gosh, what to do n... Read more...
Once again, my state of Texas is saddled with a Republican gubernatorial goober. Greg Abbott is this guy's name, and he's another incompetent, right-wing ideologue whose botched handling of our state's COVID-19... Read more...
It's been pointed out that Donnie Trump has unusually small hands... but who cares?
What's truly alarming are his unusually small policy ideas. Draining the swamp, for example. He bragged that he'd be strong... Read more...
While our present President's moral character seems stuck somewhere between boorish and brutish, it's only fair to note that he also has an aesthetic dimension.
This surprising side of Trump popped out sever... Read more...
The rich are different from you and me. For one thing, they’re rich.
Among the super-rich, though, there tends to be a peculiar sense that their net worth is a testament to their true worthiness. Thus, they ... Read more...
Many Americans can't believe that political coups are part of our country's history – but consider from the Wall Street Putsch of 1933.
Never heard of it? It was a corporate conspiracy to oust Franklin D. Ro... Read more...
Everyone should wear a protective medical mask – but some ought to be in ski masks, like those favored by bank robbers and muggers.
Zach Fuentes for example, a former deputy chief of staff for Donald Trump. ... Read more...
The chief cultural emblem of our times is this: Wearing a mask. Or not.
These low-tech, high-impact, low-cost coverings are so simple and effective at helping reduce the COVID-19 infection rate that our top ... Read more...
The mass these protests against systemic racism are driving Donald Trump plumb crazy! Of course, that's a pretty short drive for him.
He would be hilarious if his buffoonery was not so dangerous and destruct... Read more...
Viewing the video of George Floyd's gruesome murder, one word from him stuck in my head, one painful human utterance that conveys the horror of it all: "Momma," Mr. Floyd cried out in desperation and disbelief ... Read more...
