Since crossing the Golden Gate Bridge running away from a wrecked home, I’ve taken to life on my own. I come and go as I please. I pursue plans and projects to my heart’s content and can hear myself think. Then when Girlfriend – my cat – came into my life, it seemed complete. The […]

Elon Musk is a migrant. There is a difference between a migrant and an immigrant. An immigrant is a person who moves to another country with the intention of living there permanently. The great majority of immigrants to America come for work or personal safety or affection for the way of life. Their goal is […]

Bob Woodward’s new book, War, has what we have come to expect as the usual number of blockbuster revelations, proving once again his skill at loosening the lips of those close to power. My favorite is the story that in the midst of drastic shortages at home and abroad, Donald Trump was sending Covid tests […]

Election 2024 is certainly as classic an American courtroom drama as sure as “Twelve Angry Men.” The contrast, nay contradiction, between the two leading witnesses could not be clearer. Speaking of angry men, one star witness in the witness box seems to swim in the spittle of his own outbursts of outrage. He is a […]

Donald Trump tried to kill Obamacare. If elected to a second term, he would try to kill it again. No, the former president didn’t save the Affordable Care Act as his running mate J.D. Vance said at the vice-presidential debate. That was a bald-faced lie. Here’s what happened: During the 2016 campaign Trump vowed to […]