Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

Can you imagine the great university capitulating to the likes of Alan Dershowitz? That’s what happened when Yale fired Dr. Bandy Lee, the heroic psychiatric professor who has tried to save the world from Trump. She dared to tweet a … Continue reading →

To wit: his whinnying insistence that Michelle Obama’s voting drive represents “the rise of Fascism.” Bolstering voter participation is the exact opposite of the Fascism that Bannon is working overtime to implement in this country — he knows that and … Continue reading →

S & S publishes some good books, many bad ones, and not infrequently descends to fetid loucheness. Goes all the way to the bottom. That’s what it’s done by contracting a book by–are you sitting down?–convicted criminal Paul Manafort, one … Continue reading →

Their scientifically illiterate prattle today, courtesy of Fox “News” and other HIGHLY respected sources, confirms that they will exploit the court to aggressively remake the country and impose their apocalyptic, fringe agenda. It’s not going to be only women’s reproductive … Continue reading →

He believes that his prim, pinched expression and his verbal abuse could take him far. He certainly would do less damage to the country if he kept his practice private. Instead Carlson demanded a Soviet-style public recantation from Ted Cruz. … Continue reading →

That’s what Tchernichova used to say about private patrons in the ballet world. Reminds me of how Gates was able to rehabilitate his criminally-tainted reputation via the Gates Foundation.

Wondered about that when Jake Tapper reminded us of that shabby incident with Georgia’s secretary of state in 2020–one more in Graham’s career of ruthless political malfeasance, usually couched in a high-pitched hectoring screed–when Sen. Graham dared to accuse President … Continue reading →

The inevitable result of his embrace of vaccine Apartheid and patent-protection-before-people. In The New Republic, Alexander Zaitchik describes Gates’ long-term practice of “reinforcing the system responsible for the very problems he claims to be trying to solve.” The article was … Continue reading →

I received an email invitation from one Donald J. Trump inviting me to dinner with “your favorite President.”

His insistence on work requirements is a body blow to millions of Americans who’ve been raised out of poverty. “There go all the grandparents raising children,” Joan McCarter writes at Daily Kos, “the disabled people who can’t work, those who … Continue reading →