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Shaming Sarah | Mark As Read |
Poor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. At yesterdays press briefer, she looked like she could use a Prozacor a bong hit. Shes never been Little Miss Sunshine, but lately shes been a real Debbie Downer, especially after the Cohen and Manafort developments of Tuesday. Granted, the White House Press Corps has given her a rough time. […]
Two court cases, two huge victories for Resisters | Mark As Read |
For those of us in the Resistance, yesterday was a great day. It was an even better day for America. Manafort and Cohen: both guilty of eight serious counts. Both cooperating with Mueller and the Southern District of New York. Both in a position to end the disastrous Trump presidency. Its not over by a […]
Treason, John Brennan and Trump: the duck test | Mark As Read |
The summer of 1787 in Philadelphia was scorching. Hot and humid, according to one report. Old people said it was the worst summer since 1750. In those pre-air conditioned times, 55 delegates met every day for nearly five months in the Pennsylvania State Housewhat we now call Independence Hallto hammer out a Constitution by […]
Truth isnt truth? Well see | Mark As Read |
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell, 1984 Republicans were out in force yesterday trying to defend Giulianis Orwellian statement, Truth isnt truthitself reminiscent of Kellyanne Conways infamous alternative facts howler of last year. One former Trump aide, who appeared on MSNBC, explained Giluilanis comment...
The Roman Catholic Church is a criminal outfit | Mark As Read |
Its hard to avoid the conclusion that the Catholic Church is and has been for a long time a criminal organization of pedophiles. Harsh language, yes. But after this latest report that hundreds of Pennsylvania priests molested over 1,000 children, what other conclusion can we reach? And that was just in one state! Beyond […]
What Carter, Clinton, Bush and Obama are waiting for | Mark As Read |
Word has reached me that former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have agreed to a joint statement regarding the pending investigation of the current President, Donald J. Trump. The four former chief executives and their chiefs of staff have been in continuous contact for the past year, mainly through […]
New York Citys Outer Boroughs, where racism has always been alive and well | Mark As Read |
New York City, The Big Apple, is always thought of as a center of urban liberalism, but its never been as liberal as most people think. The City has elected lots of Republican Mayors over the years, including Fiorello LaGuardia, John Lindsay, the notorious Rudi Giuliani, and Michael Bloomberg. The centers of Democratic strength […]
A good question | Mark As Read |
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic congressional candidate from New Yorks 14th District, who stunningly won her partys nomination in the June primary, wondered in a CNN interview why the U.S. can afford trillions of dollars for tax cuts and unlimited war but not for Bernie Sanders-style Medicare-for-all. Its a great question that addre...
Pence: America must Christianize outer space | Mark As Read |
Vice President Michael Pence, in a speech to the Christian Broadcasting Network, said the U.S. must establish space as Christian territory, and vowed to launch the first orbiting church before the end of the President Donald J. Trumps first administration. Pences vision: an American-owned First Christian Church of Outer Space. The vehicle wo...
Those rascally Repubs! Just when you thought they couldnt get any worse | Mark As Read |
One of the features of being on the road and staying in hotels is the omnipresence of USA Today. Its not a bad little paper. It brings you up to date in the morning as you line up, cattle-style, for your English muffin and coffee in the hotel dining room. Yesterdays paper had a […]
That nasty rightwinger, Alex Jones, is finally terminated | Mark As Read |
Did you see this? YouTube has terminated Alex Jones Infowars page for violating YouTubes community guidelines. Jones is the vulgar smearhound of the far right, for whom no lie or insult is disgusting enough. TechCrunch is reporting that Jones 2.4 million YouTube subscribers will have to get their Jones jones someplace else. But they […...
Trump is doing Democrats work for us | Mark As Read |
Still on the road. Ill be on the way back to Portland as you read this, after a family-filled weekend in West Seattle, where the weather was simply gorgeous. I have a cousinIll call him Billywith whom I grew up. Were not that close anymore because he lives on the opposite coast, but such […]
My road trip: Day Six. A little ranting | Mark As Read |
Drove from Portland to Olympia, Washington (where I write this), about midway on my road trip, and I have a few observations to make about some things I encountered. Not to complain or anything, but the road people really have I-5 torn up, resulting in pretty massive backups. On the plus side, there are […]
Another really bad day for Trump | Mark As Read |
Im in Portland, Oregon, one of my favorite cities, but somehow I'm managing to keep up with events. The big news today, Trump-wise, is his morning Twitter storm, which included classic trumpisms: rigged witch hunt, stain our country, totally conflicted, 17 angry Democrats, dirty work, disgrace. Does Trump sound angry? I guess. We were [̷...
On Trumps new Religious Liberty Task Force | Mark As Read |
[The following is a transcript of what Jefferson Beauregard Sessionss remarks to the new Religious Liberty Task Force at their first meeting] Hello all, and thank you for being God-fearing patriots! I want to begin by telling youstrictly off the recordabout the RLTFs mission: It is to protect Christianity in America from its enemies, […...
Its Tuesday | Mark As Read |
Guiliani has now admitted and Fox News has dutifully repeated that Trump colluded with Russia. At least, thats the inference anyone with half an IQ would draw from their brand new meme that collusion is not a crime. Theyre basically saying that Trump did indeed collude with Russia but that theres no statute preventing […]
Fire and Fury: the Carr Fire in the heart of Jefferson State | Mark As Read |
I left Oakland for my drive north at noon on Saturday. The morning fog had burned off, and the sky was sunny and blue. I first smelled the fire 125 miles south of Redding, in Yolo County, north of Vacaville, even with all the car windows shut and the AC on. By the Colusa […]
A family trip (and one down Memory Lane) | Mark As Read |
Im driving up to Seattle with Gus on Saturday for my grand-nieces bat mitzvah. I could just fly, but I want to take Gus with me, and hes not an official service dog, so that means the car. It will be a slow trip, maybe 150 miles a day, with plenty of stops along […]
How much pain will Trumps base endure? | Mark As Read |
Much has lately been made of the negative impact of Trumps trade wars on large parts of his base: farmers and industrial workers in particular and the adjunct jobs that depend on the vibrancy of those sectors of the economy. I saw on T.V. yesterday a comment from a pundit who had been out […]
Wine critics vs. crowdsourcing: which is best? | Mark As Read |
Its never a good idea for wine critics to defend the field of wine criticism against its critics, because they end up sounding whiney and defensive. I got plenty of criticism during my time, and I never took the bait, but Eric Asimov did last week, and he shouldnt have. His column, which ran […]
What is it about Hillary that drives Trump nuts? | Mark As Read |
Partly its because shes a woman. Trump has never gotten along with women as equals. Sure, he likes to have sex with them (provided theyre Barbie dolls), but he doesnt see them as fully human, and certainly not on a par with the rich, powerful male clique he likes to play golf with. But […]
What if he cancels the 2016 Congressional elections? | Mark As Read |
It looks to me like Trumps going down. The walls appear to be closing in on himCohen, Manafort, Avenatti, Mueller, Flynn. The noose is tightening. But I have to admit to a great deal of unease even as I make that statement. Am I over-confident? After all, weve been here before, many times. The […]
What We Talked About | Mark As Read |
[This is from the personal diary of Vladimir Putin. I cannot reveal how I got it, but take my word, its authenticthe real thing! In it, Putin summarizes the conversation he had with Trump during that notorious two-hour secret meeting in Helsinki.] Dear Diary, every time I see President Trump, hes more humble. In […]
The Asterisk President * | Mark As Read |
If youve done something famous and you have an asterisk next to your name, it means your accomplishment has been tarnished by something bad you did. Barry Bonds, for example, will forever have an asterisk next to his name, even if he somehow manages to make it into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He […]
OMG Wheres the damn Tipping Point? | Mark As Read |
Weve waited almost two years now for a majority of Republicans to reach the tipping point: when they realize they backed the wrong horse in Donald J. Trump and that hes a clear and present danger to America. With Mondays stunning and stark revelation of Trumps treachery, that point may be nearer than ever. […]
The summit: Blah blah blah. Yadda yadda yadda | Mark As Read |
That pretty much sums up yesterdays summit between BFFs Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. As I predicted yesterday, it was a nothingburger. Afterwards, at the joint press conference, Trump boasted about deeply productive dialogue, the same way he boasts about Mexico building the wall or how great Joe Arpaio is: empty words, meaningless words,...
How Trump made summits a joke | Mark As Read |
When I was a kid, at the height of the Cold War, U.S.-Russia summit meetings were a big deal. Whenever Eisenhower and his successor, JFK, met with Krushchev, the nation waited with baited breath to learn what happened. LBJ summitted with Brezhnev in 1967; Nixon did the same six years later; and when Reagan […]
Sen. Feinstein, take off the damned gloves and stop the Kavanaugh hearings! | Mark As Read |
Senator Dianne Feinstein handily won her fight for the Democratic nomination to run for a sixth term in June, but she faced some considerable opposition from within her own party. The reason: many perceive her as too centrist, too accommodationist toward Republicans and Trump. Diannes always been a moderate-liberal, not a flaming lefty. She ...
Disrupting Trumps disruption | Mark As Read |
Donald Trump promised to disrupt the normal course of events and hes doing exactly that. Its thrilling to his base, but I dont know why. Do they want drama for its own sake? Because thats what theyre getting. If youd asked rightwing Republicans two years ago if they were concerned about Russian expansionism, they […]
A lot of these Twitter and Facebook pro-Trump posts look foreign in origin | Mark As Read |
There are many suspicious pro-Trump tweets and posts on social media. By suspicious I mean pro-Trump comments that all follow the same pattern: lots of graphic images (stars, American flags, fires) @s and #s referencing pro-Trump things the use of ALL CAPS disgusting, vulgar caricatures of perceived enemies, especially women: Hillary Clinton...
Breitbart mourns the death of Himmlers daughter | Mark As Read |
Gudrun Himmler Burwitz died recently in Germany, at the age of 88. She was the daughter of the notorious Nazi, Heinrich Himmler, the second man in the Reich, after Hitler. Himmler ran the dreaded secret police and the concentration camps. He surely would have been sentenced to death at Nuremberg, except that he killed […]
Trump has a scary plan. Obama can thwart it | Mark As Read |
After Trump insulted 94-year old George H.W. Bush the other day, in a speech in Montana and then on Twitter, there was speculation that it wasnt just some random rant, but a carefully calculated move to continue the process Trump started a while ago: disparaging the Republican Party and its icons as only he […]
Why we hate the Trump sons | Mark As Read |
Because theyre spoiled brats. Because theyre snobs. Because theyre tone deaf. Because theyre the poster boys for clueless rich punks who grew up with silver spoons in their mouths orto use the late Ann Richards beautiful metaphor about George H.W. Bushwere born on third base and think they hit a triple. Because theyre mean. […]
They said it on Breitbart | Mark As Read |
Something a little different today, a peek inside the soul of the Trump movement, although soul perhaps isnt the right word. More like the lunatic asylum. The hatred and anger on Breitbart never cease to amaze me. At the risk of making you puke, here are some samples from yesterdayIndependence Day! The context of […]
Senate Intel report slams Trump, Nunes | Mark As Read |
Last Aprils House Intelligence Committees report on Trump-RussiaGate was an unmitigated disaster for American democracy, a clumsily transparent attempt to assist Trump in covering up his crimes and misdemeanors. Devin Nunes, the Committees Republican chair, colluded with Trump and most likely obstructed justice, a federal offense. As for his...
A conversation between a midwestern farmer and his wife | Mark As Read |
Joe Matthews is a second-generation soybean and corn farmer in western Indiana. He and his wife of 32 years, Cecilia (Cis), live in the small town of Fairview Park, not far from the Illinois border. They have one son, Joe Jr., who lives in nearby Covington. Joe Sr. voted for Donald Trump in 2016; […]
Trump again embarrasses America in front of the whole world | Mark As Read |
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a United Nations agency whose mission is to work with its 169-member nations to assist migrants and governments with the humane, cost-effective and orderly management of migration around the world. Founded in 1951, its founding purpose was to help with the movement of migrants in the chao...
The Collapse | Mark As Read |
In the late winter and early spring of 1945, as World War II ground to a halt in Europe, Nazi Germany was in the throes of collapse. In the West, Patton's and Montgomery's armies were flooding into the North German Plain. In the East, Stalin's troops were crushing the Wehrmacht and closing in on Berlin. […]
What is the most significant parallel between Hitler and Trump? | Mark As Read |
One of the most important books to deal with the origins of World War II is AJP Taylor's "A Short History of Germany: 1815-1945"As (1969). That war, which killed 60 million people, seems like something out of the dim past, especially to a generation younger than mine; today, the slaughter that had characterized Europe […]...
What some Alabamians are saying about the Roy Moore scandals | Mark As Read |
AL.com, Alabama's biggest news website, just published an opinion piece on Moore. The columnist was careful not to take sides, but he did look at the situation Biblically, and he made the gentle suggestion that some people who are standing by Moore might be compromising their values, or might not fully understand just what […]
A memo to Roy Moore | Mark As Read |
I don't much trust evangelical Christians, for any number of reasons: first of all, the "evangelical" part of their religion makes them pushy bullies. I suppose it's because they feel they have a "mission" to spread the word. Well, lots of people don't believe in their religion, including me, and we object to them […]...
Trump’s Asia trip was a fiasco | Mark As Read |
After making an ass of himself in Asia, Trump returns to Washington, with his tax bill in shambles, his poll numbers deteriorating, and Special Counsel Mueller probing ever closer to the Oval Office. The Asia tour was panned around the world and everywhere in this country, except in bastions of Trump World, like Breitbart […]
From the Personal Diary of Donald J. Trump | Mark As Read |
Jan. 3 Hi Dear Diary, I really threw ˜em a curveball when I said I have information on the hacking that the intelligence agencies don't. I love it! They still can't figure me out, which is exactly where I want ˜em: off-balance. Keep ˜em guessing. They never know what hits ˜em until it's too […]
Trump: “Nobody knows what’s going on” and “Anyone who didn’t vote for me is my enemy” | Mark As Read |
Over the New Year's weekend, Trump made two statements. Both reveal conjoined facets of his personality. Both are deeply disturbing, and call into question, once again, his mental fitness to be President. The first, concerning #Electiongate”which Trump still denies had anything to do with his BFF, Vladimir Putin”was: The whole age of compute...
Two classic examples of Republican false narratives | Mark As Read |
Did you ever read an op-ed piece that made you so angry, you wanted to rip it up and flush it down the toilet? I did, yesterday”not once, but twice. The first was called Does a ˜Never Trumper' need to be forgiven?? and was in the National Review. It was authored by Jonah Goldberg. […]
What does Trump mean by unpredictable?? | Mark As Read |
One of the first things I learned when I started blogging and engaging on social media was to avoid C.U.I., or commenting under the influence.? We all know that people get into trouble when their judgment is impaired and they say and do stupid things online. Anthony Weiner is a good example. But there's […]
On Trump’s choice of Israeli ambassador | Mark As Read |
I'm going to tell you a little bit more than I did yesterday about the pernicious influence that rightwing Jews have, both here in America and in Israel. Yesterday I explained how the presence of about one million Russian ultra-orthodox Jews (out of Israel's total population of eight million) has poisoned Israeli politics and […]
An American Jew on the Israel-U.N.-Obama brouhaha | Mark As Read |
The Jewish vote in America, while not particularly large, is influential. Jewish voters have traditionally been Democrats since Franklin D. Roosevelt created his coalition in the 1930s. Republicans have long attempted to wrest control of the Jewish vote for themselves, but have failed, for two reasons. First, Jewish sympathies tend toward li...
New wine reviews | Mark As Read |
When the wine comes in, I review. If it doesn't, I don't. For the last few weeks, it's been coming in. I still get a kick from reviewing wines. Here are a few new ones. Rock Wall 2014 Jack's Dry Creek Petite Sirah (Sonoma County): $35. Alcohol 14.8%. An absolutely first-rate Petite Sirah that […]
How we’ll defeat Trumpism | Mark As Read |
I know a lot of liberals who are depressed these days, and I feel it's part of my job to boost their morale and let them know that this is not the time to give up. It's the time to resist. People don't know what to do. They feel so overwhelmed, so powerless. What […]
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