Politics being politics, and politicians being politicians, Americans have figured out how, along with sore throats and violent coughing, the coronavirus causes finger-pointing, loud talking, and endless credit-claiming. The best remedy I know of: huge handfuls of salt for sprinkling…
We seem to be in what Bernie’s and Joe’s and my generation called a “mell of a hess,” back before the media and the political class routinized the words that were formerly common to override with “#%$#%^!!%$%.” Which made for…
This virus thing has gotten crazy. San Francisco … closed down due to the coronavirus’ spread?! A whole American city on hold? And other localities set for like privations? Joe Biden’s and Bernie Sanders’ contemporaries may remember (as I do,…
The stock market Monday took a look at the world around it and swooned, delivering likely the decisive blow to the Sanders candidacy and its proposed revolution. Who wants a political revolution when economic forces are hard at work wringing…
There is occasionally good sense in just standing back and watching the grand spectacle known as democracy. The presidential try-outs, known as the primaries, have been a strong prop of that reasoning. People who want, or say they want, to…
“President Sanders, speaking from the White House yesterday, proposed/criticized/blamed … ” Um, er, no — not really. It’s not going to happen. This Bernie thing — the rise of Bernie, the magnetism of Bernie, the radiance that shines from his…
One immense reason for our present political entanglements — would it be OK to say “messes”? — is the lately acquired political habit of addressing every possible human problem through politics. For instance, with regard to women’s rights, the Equal…
You could say, as I’m sure vast numbers have, that “Trump started it.” But he didn’t, because he didn’t have to. Vast numbers had done it for him, and Donald Trump merely picked up where they had left off —…
In any “stupidest” or “most worthless” contest, America can confidently put its money on the President Donald Trump impeachment mess. What frivolity. What junk. What an irredeemable waste of valuable time. Almost irredeemable. I should make that clear. As Pliny…