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This was posted unedited, by accident. Love the title, so I’ll just keep it aloft by itself for a day.

Studying body language, that is. And doesn’t Trump resemble a primate howling and pounding its chest? And back in the realm of our own species, the screaming and gesturing and hyperventilating really demonstrate close observance of the Fuhrer.

That same sitting POTUS who wanted to propitiate mad dog Republicans by cutting Social Security? Now he’s calling, as well he should have been seven years ago, for it to be expanded.

He seems to be creating a boomlet of reinterest in Herman Melville’s The Confidence Man. I’ve wanted to read it for years. I mean, how great is Moby Dick, Bartleby the Scrivener, and Billy Budd? A country that could produce … Continue reading →

Rob Briscoe’s documentary on the Bankhead family premieres June 9 in Jasper, Alabama, which was their home town for a long time. Once it’s dark out–or once darkness descends, I should say in tribute to the family’s gift for florid … Continue reading →

Marco Rubio is paid a six-figure salary to goldbrick his way through an absentee Senate term, serving only as a human coin box for billionaires and their agendas. Why not keep the gig rolling?

Bully Trump is a coward as well as a fraud. No, he won’t face the certainty of Sanders cleaning his clock.

She seems not to have learned a thing since her health care fiasco two decades ago. Make yourself as unavailable to the media as possible– Refusing to debate Sanders, she hands him and Trump a pinata. You go, girl!

That’s what an academic friend of mind and his colleagues branded Bush’s bogus act when it first was imposed on us. Fifteen years later, the result, of course, is exactly what they predicted: kids who know how to check boxes … Continue reading →

There will be sufficient time in the months and years ahead to examine the crack up of the liberal commentariat precipitated by Bernie Sanders and his candidacy. In the meantime, it continues to peddle the canard that Sanders has not … Continue reading →