It sure seems that way to me. It seems that we did not learn—nor retain—a thing from all the pain, shame, infighting, and strife that lasted three days shy of four years.
You must be thinking, “What 1,459 days?” But...
I am a drinking man . . . but in the early hours of a new day, well before the approaching dawn, well before the anguished cries, well before the world awoke to the foulest day it will ever know—the ninth...
I remember what I wrote and said about Donald J. Trump—I meant it! And I’ll stand by all of it until the bitter end. My disgust of Trump and his cantankerous crew does not blind me, nor alleviate me,...
Pascal’s wager—believing in God because the potential rewards of doing so greatly outweigh the cost—is a simple bet. There are no odds to contemplate. There is no under or over to ponder. You don’t have to consider playing a...
It has finally dawned on me why, throughout my life, I have had dental problems that have resulted in me becoming—as Seinfeld’s Cosmo Kramer so eloquently shot into the zeitgeist of 1990s America—“a rabid antidentite.” Unfortunately, my dental epiphany...
In late March, Donald Trump opened a rally in Wisconsin by mocking the state’s governor, Scott Walker, who had just endorsed his Republican opponent, Ted Cruz. “He came in on his Harley,” Trump said of Walker, “but he doesn’t...
In the early eighties, long before the thought of becoming a rideshare driver in Las Vegas crossed my mind, I failed at replacing Doug Henning as America’s favorite magician. Even a serendipitous appearance on television’s PM Magazine, on which...
The Defense Production Act (DPA) is a tool the president has to compel our private industry to produce things for the public good. Not only has Donald Trump failed to use this power to the public benefit, but he...
