I mean really, how often are we going to scream that there’s a hole in the dike? We’ve known for…
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Media’s Right to Destroy You for Money
This is a difficult article to write, because its heartbreak runs through our entire society and there are no easy…
My Bone to Pick with Biden’s Secretary of Defense
Actually, I have several, but first a few words to set the confrontation on level ground. It was called Secretary…
Israel May Be Turning Palestine Into Afghanistan
When you give your enemy nothing left to live for, he becomes indomitable. It’s a very dangerous thing to do…
Hold On, Pardner, Democracy Is Not Yet Dead
Elayne Clift at Salon just penned an article titled How to lose America: The death of democracy looks nearer than…
The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend
According to Google, the first recorded instance for this phrasing comes from Gabriel Manigault, who in his 1884 Political Creed…
The Public Thirst For Outrage
Media carries a lot of blame for the current state of social, legal and political turmoil in America. At least…
That Annoying “Check Engine´ Light
What does it even mean? Why is it doing that and what am I supposed to do now? Welcome to…
Stephen Collinson, Trump’s Inside Man at CNN
Seldom do I write two columns on the same theme, but CNN has offered up consecutive pieces by Stephen Collinson…
The GOP’s Devotion to Trump Threatens to Destroy American Democracy
That’s the headline on a CNN article by Stephen Collinson and it pushes the Bullshit Needle entirely off the dial.…