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“There are basically only five ways to accumulate a billion dollars,” Robert Reich writes at his blog, “and none of them has to do with being successful in free market capitalism.”

Make sure to make sure you circle March 6, 2020 at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where I’ll be speaking on “Dryads of West 55th Street,” as part of a day-long seminar-program relating to “Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse.”

Who knows–maybe he’ll switch affiliation mid-primary? It’s an un-delicious irony that Bloomberg, the billionaire autocrat who helped pave the way for Trump, is now itching to succeed him. The solution isn’t Michael Bloomberg. The problem is the Michael Bloombergs of … Continue reading →

He bellows the same outrageous, easily-disproven lies over and over again, until, so he hopes, the national psyche will be so battered it will accept anything at all in order to tamp down the noise pollution and the assault on … Continue reading →

I’m sure this story will be exhaustively covered by the Washington Post, but it seems that Amazon doesn’t like the fact that the City Council of Seattle wants to impose some fiscal accountability for the company’s responsibility in making housing … Continue reading →

Fleeing to Florida, he leaves, as usual, in his wake a trail of lies, deflections, smokescreens.

When I saw Nancy Pelosi on Colbert in her yellow dress with beads and shoes to match, I was ready to forgive her almost everything. That’s the kind of guy I am. But seriously, I wish her all the best … Continue reading →

Integral to the President’s war on truth and facts as manifested by his attacks on the media is the trick of screaming answers to unavoidably screamed questions from the media–remember Reagan’s trick of getting lost in the prop wash?

Not a single Democrat was stupid or venal enough to vote for Trump’s tax scam or his apocalyptic deregulation agenda. Get over it. One of this pathetic fraud’s favorite gambits is her nattering pretense the her boss’s traitorous treachery and … Continue reading →

One of the trademarks of this slimeball is the way he tosses back at his accusers the admission that yes, they’re right, he is what they’ve accused him of being–“a right-wing nut job,” among other things, and no only what … Continue reading →