‘Mad Dog’ & Bozos So illegitimate President Trump is still too fearful of the voting U.S. public to learn his real net worth and sources of his income, so he still refuses to show us his income taxes. And he refuses to put his wealth into a real blind trust where he can’t monitor and/or […]
Notes from 30,000 Feet: Comparisons and contrasts from Puerto Rico to Bakersfield and Egypt
Recent travels presented several opportunities for comparing today’s issues from differing perspectives. To some of our fellow citizens life in America reflects a lack of appreciation for the unacknowledged good, while the bad is either blown out of proportion or simply completely made up. ‘Never let a crisis go to waste’ So spoke Chicago Mayor […]
Bruce Robinson: The president knows how to ‘Git-R-Done!’
Almost immediately after Donald Trump won the presidential election last year, “Dirty Jobs” host Mike Rowe posted these comments on his Facebook page: “The people did not want a politician. The people wanted to be seen. Donald Trump convinced those people that he could see them. Hillary Clinton did not.…the world is full of very […]
Bruce Robinson: Straining the swamp
“Draining the swamp” has become the slogan du jour for just about anybody who wants to fix what’s been happening in our nation’s capital. It’s a catchy metaphor, but taken literally such a swamp-draining would not only be prohibitively costly to the taxpayer but would eliminate virtually every bureaucrat in the federal government. If we […]
Bruce Robinson: Whose hate speech?
Let’s begin with the understanding that there is no “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment. That has been settled law since the founders first signed the Constitution of the United States in 1787. Yet, on college campuses all across the United States, the First Amendment rights of commencement speakers have been repeatedly violated by […]
The A Cappella Handyman: Two-County Tinker
I used to be a three-county tinker, but I gave up Alameda County. It was just too far to go. I also gave up those under-the-counter jobs where your head and back are in the cabinet looking up at 30- or 40-year old fixtures and drains or garbage disposals in leaking and desperate need of […]
The A Cappella Handyman: Signing off on Trump
I’m signing off on Trump. I chose NOT to watch his address to the joint houses of Congress. The U.S. has no president. It has a faux-Presidente of the caliber of the reality TV show family, the Kardashians. Of cerebral capacity akin to Jerry Springer. I watched him belittle and demean his lackluster Republican fellow […]
Dennis Lund: Freely admitting to being completely flummoxed by recent events
The word ‘flummoxed’ is one I have never used to describe reactions to any past events. But what we have seen post-election, more specifically since the inauguration, have indeed made that word appropriate. Many aspects of the events of the past 90 days are bewildering indeed. Reflecting on some of the high (or low notes), […]
Mrs. B’s Blather: Who is the Ugly American?
How can I help myself from chiming in on the President Donald Trump harangue? I can’t. Some of you remember years ago the traveling American who wore Hawaiian shirts, a camera hanging from his neck and a very loud voice. He was symbolic of an American who did not have any interest in the culture […]
Matt Talbot: Godwin’s Law overturned on appeal
Godwin’s Law is, in the words of Wikipedia, “an Internet adage which asserts that ‘As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1’—that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Hitler. “…there […]