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A BIG ONE Posted on July 22, 2011 by Having just come from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Winter’s Tale, I can only say that the folly as well as the venality of what our President is apparently doing can only be called Shakesperean.  … Continue reading →

Thank you, Ron Filipowski, for highlighting on your twitter account DeSantis in his Village People boots with the elevator rise. The turned-up toes, I might add , are intended, like the poulaines of the Middle Ages, to make us think … Continue reading →

It’s time to hear them stand up and warn Biden, before he tries to throw his presidency away, that they are the firewall. Senators  Fetterman and Warren seem to have gotten there. Publicly, they are refraining from jumping the gun … Continue reading →

He is so out of control now that even Florida has had enough. And its agricultural economy hasn’t even collapsed yet. But wait–his latest hate-on-immigrants bill will ensure that.

They do far less honest work and contribute far less to the American economy than the recipients of Medicaid, SNAP, and Social Security on whom they want to inflict hideously abusive penalties and hurdles.

Apparently terrified that his lucrative CNN contract might be cancelled after he told the truth about Licht’s Trump rally, Tapper parroted Fox News to pretend that John Durham’s report exonerated Trump. As the Daily Beast notes, Tapper did not go … Continue reading →

This tells us again what a self-serving con artist Chris Licht is. He staged a Trump fascist rally and called it news. CNN’s Oliver Darcy described how appalled CNN staffers were. Licht wasn’t having it. CNN is over.

There are several ways that the President can avert a default crisis without capitulating to the GOP’s anti-America cuts. If Biden chooses instead to capitulate, the Democratic caucus has to explain that they will not condone a reprise of Obama … Continue reading →

Her daughter Anya Bardyguine Davis has donated her mother’s archive to the Library for the Performing Arts in New York City. In the New York Times, Meryl  Cates reviews the wealth of material.

Dr. Bandy Lee writes at Medium: “At the onset of my quarter-century career, I encountered sociopaths and psychopaths mostly in jails and prisons, my main settings for clinical work. Very disturbingly, over time, I found them increasingly in leadership positions, … Continue reading →