I cut the cable about three years ago, so I have no idea how the expected public execution of Donald Trump is going – or if Mr. Trump, true to form, is ripping the arms off of Ben Carson and beating Carly Fiorina and Hugh Hewitt to death with them, rhetorically speaking of course. What is amazing…
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“So you burnt down the GOP” or “There is no conservative base.”
I’m seeing a wide variety of reasons for Trump support ranging from CNN’s favorite to broadcast the “I loved him on The Apprentice” (I thought a Kardashian would be our first celebrity president, or Beyoncé) to “I like what he stands for” or “He fights!” or “He has the right people mad.” (These to me…
Why I Don’t Care That Europe Dies (and Why I Hate That That’s Wrong)
About 30 years ago, my mother made a pilgrimage to central Europe to take my dad to Vienna, to see where she worked in the labor brigades clearing bomb damage and then on to Auschwitz. Oddly, my mother was interned at the infamous Mauthausen concentration camp but couldn’t bear the thought of returning to the…
Trump Is Obama with A Different Agenda
Some of what I have heard from Donald Trump is viscerally pleasing. His immigration reform and border control policies are exactly what I want to hear from a candidate. Well…actually….just some of it, if I ignore the really stupid parts like making Mexico pay for the wall, and creating a minimum wage for H1B visa…
Dear Peter Jackson; I Hate You. A Short Review Of “The Hobbit.”
My first memory of J.R.R. Tolkien’s books was during an interminable cross-country trip when I was 10 or 11. We followed the signs to Wall Drug Store (as, I am confident, did much of America), but it was not quite as exciting as I had anticipated in my fervid imagination. As a consolation prize, my…
(Sort of) Happy New Year!
This evening begins the Days of Awe, or the ten days between the start of Rosh Hashanah and the end of Yom Kippur. For an interesting take on it, take a look at The Lid’s explanation. I am not particularly religious, identifying myself as a cultural Jew who is woefully lax in his religious observance….
What Hath Liberalism Wrought, Part 3
Thousands of students who failed the California High School Exit Exam over the past decade may finally be able to graduate under a bill now awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature. Source: Senate sends high school exit exam suspension to Jerry Brown | The Sacramento Bee Ten years ago California instituted the California High School Exit…
Thoreauly Disgusted
Since Ed Koch introduced the “pooper-scooper” law back in 1977 and then into the Dinkins (I give credit where it’s due in this instance) and Giuliani years with quality-of-life laws, the crackdown on windshield washermen, hookers, turnstile jumpers and the revitalization of the subway, Jackie O’s rescue of Grand Central Station and the transformation of Times Square-42nd…
The Lesson Has Been Unlearned
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war. 14 years later America has lost whatever martial spirit we had in the aftermath of the…
14 Years Later…
Rest in Peace.