There’s a meme going around, a diptych comprised of two gifs; Donald Trump allegedly mocking a disabled reporter on the right, Hillary Clinton allegedly suffering a seizure on the left. It’s pretty damned creepy, and to me, perfectly sums up… Continue Reading
It’s been more than a quarter-century since Bill and Hillary Clinton emerged on the national landscape, and we still don’t get Hillary Clinton. That apparently is the belief of cautiously optimistic Democratic operatives after Donald Trump narrowed Clinton’s lead in… Continue Reading
I am puzzled by the attraction of Donald Trump. I understand that there is a huge population who thinks they have been abandoned by their country. The jobs they used to have are gone. Washington has been in paralysis for… Continue Reading
It’s official. The mainstream media is dead. Donald J. Trump put the final nail in the coffin last week when he hired Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon to manage the final stages of his insanely improbable presidential campaign.… Continue Reading
Sometimes I fancy I’m the wise old man on the mountain, which isn’t too much of a stretch, being that I’m getting older every day and I live on a mountain. I go on long hikes through silent woods, hands… Continue Reading
It was hot and a large and heartily partisan crowd was starting to wilt as it waited Friday on the blistering Redding Municipal Airport tarmac for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to fly in and recharge flagging spirits. Finally, at… Continue Reading
I love Donald Trump. Jesus God, I despise Donald Trump with nuclear-fusion heat of a million stars. Wait—a million’s not huge enough. A billion stars. Quality stars—like a billion red giants. Not a bunch of brown dwarf losers. Terrific stars.… Continue Reading
Don’t make the white people angry. If there’s one lesson to be gained from the astounding rise of Donald Trump from billionaire developer/reality TV star to presumptive Republican presidential nominee, that’s it. So far, judging from the reaction to Trump’s… Continue Reading
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every… Continue Reading
If everyone is attacking you, you must be doing something right. If the adage is true, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump must be doing a lot of things right. Despite ferocious attacks from mainstream media, Democrats and even his own… Continue Reading
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