To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Observercast

The Goose And The Gander

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What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. It’s the latest game in Washington, being played out every time a document is found in a garage or a room near a garage in Wilmington, DE, as the relics of 40 years in public life are searched for random classified documents. And so the […]

The Parties: A View From The Suburbs

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There are moderates in the suburbs – Democrats, Republicans and Independents – who want Washington spending kept in check. They tend to be liberal on social issues but pained over the extremes of the woke. They have respect for various sexual identities but little interest in learning new pronouns. And they overwhelmingly want some access […]

Standing Up Against Debt Blackmail

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While Speaker Kevin McCarthy demands transparency from the Biden White House, he has concealed crucial facts from the American public ever since he forged the “corrupt bargain” that greased his ascension to the constitutional post he now holds. The details of the agreement that allowed McCarthy to scrape together the barest majority are said to […]

George Who?

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Back in the ’90s, my ex-husband wrote a movie about a con man who discovers where the money is and runs for Congress and actually gets elected. The movie, The Distinguished Gentleman, was very funny. In real life, it’s not so funny. I wonder if George Santos ever watched it. The recent developments in the […]

The Bros Are Sorry, So They Say

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Sam Bankman-Fried perfected the poses, uniform and attitude of the bro, the boy-man who gets away with it. He sucked billions into his FTX cryptocurrency platform by convincing the public that he was touched with supersized genius at making fortunes. His claim to want the money for higher things than simply amassing luxury only burnished […]