…oh, and one more thing
Yesterday I pretty blithely sidestepped the opportunity to be specific about what I think has been so awful about the first year of the second iteration of TFG’s presidency (“Without getting into the...
View ArticleI love a parade, but not this
I did not attend Saturday’s military parade in Washington, D.C, or even watch it on TV or watch the news coverage of it. I was hoping it would be a dud, that most people wouldn’t be interested in...
View ArticleReality checkers
obfuscate: to throw into shadow; to make obscure; confuse; to be evasive, unclear, or confusing (Merriam-Webster) We — all of us, I think — we need more people in our world with clear vision about...
View ArticleAfter Such Violence, the Center Must Hold
New York Times opinion writer David French had these thoughts soon after the apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump on Saturday evening. I hope we can all share his sentiments as we go...
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Fingers crossed, hoping for the best
A few thoughts while waiting for the New York jury to return a verdict in the business fraud/election interference trial of you know who: I hate it every time a news report refers to Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleStorm warning
First, point out to anyone who complains when all of the ballots in Tuesday’s elections have not been counted by their bedtime Tuesday night and says that is evidence of widespread voter fraud that...
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How P.J. O’Rourke helped me understand life, one week after he died
It’s been a particularly busy time for me lately. I don’t know if it’s an increased rate of work-related nonsense, or the pounds of mail I’m sorting through each day from friendly, helpful folks who...
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The most crucial lesson
Seated at my desk at work with CNN playing numbingly in the background, it was just another autumn Tuesday morning in Houston. Finally, it soaked in that they were saying a commercial jetliner had...
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Goodbye, President Bannon
There’s precious little to laugh about when considering the current occupant of the White House, but today I found two things I want to share. First, he just fired Steve Bannon! After all we’ve...
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He probably loves it that we can’t stop talking about him
Doonesbury captures another moment in our national consciousness: the one where President Bannon won’t let us live the rest of our lives in peace… Thanks to Doonesbury and The Washington Post
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The story of the Bannon presidency so far
Leonard Pitts, Jr., this weekend in the Miami Herald, appropriately sizes up the situation and issues a blunt reminder that we all have a responsibility to take care of our society:
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“I have a dream”
Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., took the podium at the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; it is still one of the...
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The Airing of Grievances, 2016 election edition
When Thomas Jefferson was noodling around for a device to explain the British colonies’ reasons for declaring independence, he settled on the direct approach: yes, he got all fancy with his language,...
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It’s still too early for the 2016 campaign, but…
The first vote that counts in the 2016 presidential election is still four months away, so I remain committed to the belief that it is still too soon to be caring about this. Of course, I’m vastly...
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Falkenberg snaps the shutout and changes the law
The Houston Chronicle is heckled within these walls as “Houston’s Leading Information Source” for two sarcastic reasons: that’s what it proclaimed itself to be for many years in a local advertising—er,...
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Memorial Day means…
The point of the day is to remember those who gave their lives in the defense of our country…and I don’t remember ever being as touched on this subject as I was reading this story about the way the...
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Guns spelled backwards is snug, and other thoughts on guns
I’ve been thinking about guns and gun control and the Second Amendment since the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, but today I found a guy who’s done a much better job of it than me. I’m not a...
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It’s still too early for the 2016 campaign, but…
The first vote that counts in the 2016 presidential election is still four months away, so I remain committed to the belief that it is still too soon to be caring about this. Of course, I’m vastly...
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Falkenberg snaps the shutout and changes the law
The Houston Chronicle is heckled within these walls as “Houston’s Leading Information Source” for two sarcastic reasons: that’s what it proclaimed itself to be for many years in a local advertising—er,...
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