Category Archives: Uncategorized

Sen. McConnell knows that he and the GOP can no longer win elections legitimately–they have become too extreme, too subversive to U.S. democracy. Therefore his squawking and his preposterous Washington Post editorial hissy-fitting about Democrats’ proposals to make American democracy … Continue reading →

Another ludicrously puffed-up oligarch without a clue  about what the overwhelming majority of Americans experience. How long does anyone think the Starbucks King’s candidacy could stay on its feet when faced with the fusillade of Harris-Warren-Brown-Sanders artillery??

He’s all for standardization, homogenization, pay some benefits but keep salaries scraping rock bottom. The King insists that our national debt is the reason that we can’t afford social programs, but that wouldn’t have anything to do with the taxes … Continue reading →

That’s why they’re stamping their Berlutti-Alessandro shoes and saying No, no, a million times No to Warren and Sanders for president. Jake Johnson reports at Common Dreams.

One of the great achievements of the American right wing has been to convince Americans over the past forty years that they are living not in a representative democracy but rather in the Soviet Union or some other totalitarian state … Continue reading →

Rep. Neguse says he’s going to investigate Brett Kavanaugh’s perjury. Uh, what’s taken you so long? And wasn’t Rep. Nadler going to investigate the way that the White House interfered with the FBI’s “investigation” of Kavanaugh?

On the Thursday or Friday before Labor Day 1995,  Lee Israel leaves a message asking me to call her.  I believed that I knew what that was going to be about.  Some type of intimidation. I’d put an author’s query … Continue reading →

The Speaker understands that if Trump is allowed to extort America on a whim because Fox “News” yanked his chain — insisting on the absolutely essential wall that somehow wasn’t essential when the GOP exerted unified control of government — … Continue reading →

to shut down the Mueller probe? Increasingly it seems likely. And Viper McConnell, deep into his soul-searching mode, is enabling Trump every step of the way. Dems need to discuss how Trump & his handmaidens in the GOP are destroying … Continue reading →

Extraordinary photos, design, cast of characters, historical moment—Valentin Baranovsky’s newish book of mostly photos and some text about Nureyev’s return to the Kirov stage in 1989.