Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

The latent affinities between professional sports and totalitarianism in America were just cranked up a notch when the NFL capitulated to Herr Trump’s demand that sideline protests be banned. The NFL is a bullshit organization that should now be boycotted. … Continue reading →

The DOJ can and will be extorted. By Trump. It was today. This can’t go on.

Is to inform working Americans what Neil Gorsuch and the right-wing-extremist Supreme Court majority is doing to them.

Isn’t it a law, an axiom? That’s why I just had to plop into Tallulah’s 1927 tub on Farm Street in London, quite a few decades after she’d last had her final bubble-infused script conference there.

Yeah, I know you can’t believe I’m saying that. And when I say it I’m not being sarcastic either. She voted against Gina Haspel, and now she’s forcefully explaining her reasons why. Of course, she’s also equivocating by reminding voters … Continue reading →

How do we wind up with people like this in positions of such influence? Now the heedless whelp has signed up for one of those chimerical liberal bias litmus-tests, powered by none other than Rebekah Mercer’s Heritage Foundation! Tess Owen … Continue reading →

Today’s GOP–McConnell, Ryan, and all the rest–is treasonous, attempting to elevate Trump above the rule of law.

and lights up the stage whenever she appears in Carousel. Now, I love Tebaldi singing “If I Loved You,” so if Fleming had gotten really operatic with those great songs she’s got that would have been OK, but nevertheless she … Continue reading →

Facebook and Zuckerberg have more than shown their true colors: they are another major threat to American democracy. Jake Johnson in Common Dreams responds to the alarms being sounded by Zuckerberg’s partnering with a Koch-funded plutocract’s club to attempt control … Continue reading →

If only. With Gina Haspel’s confirmation, the U.S. has reached rock bottom. And we can still go lower.