To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Politics And The Michigan Mass Shooting
And so some angry, mentally ill person decides to shoot random human beings for no particular reason. Although mass killings have become commonplace – the one at Michigan State University was the 67th this year, and we’re only in February – something feels different this time. It’s not the number of victims, three dead in […]
Nobody Can Ever Trust Fox News Again
Anyone who was cynical or dismissive about Fox News Channel before now has suddenly learned that they weren’t cynical or dismissive enough. Astounding evidence emerging this week from the defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox, Rupert Murdoch, his son Lachlan and others shows, in excruciating detail, how the “fair and balanced” network […]
We’re Green. Are We Mean?
Joe Biden’s America has embarked on a muscular industrial policy aimed at curbing climate change, building U.S. manufacturing and competing with China. That’s a lot of going on, though the broader public doesn’t seem to be paying it much mind. Unidentified flying objects make for better visuals. Our trading partners, on the other hand, are […]
Yes, Republicans Hate Social Security
Republicans hate Social Security. From the very dawn of America’s most popular and successful government program in 1935, Republicans have always hated Social Security. It is a hatred felt not by ordinary Republican voters – many of whom are elderly and rely on the program for survival – but by Republican elected officials and especially […]
Welcome To The U.S. House Of Crazies
An old political saying notes that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. However, given the proliferation of today’s goofball culture wars and fanatical right-wing phobias, that truism should be updated to say: Evil swarms when power-hungry leaders unleash the crazies. Which brings us to the […]