Every once in a while, I’ll let my guard down and write a political post (try not to hate me). Those posts are gathered here. Look closely enough and you’ll find the post about the time I threw my own hat into the ring.
Both Michelle and Barack Obama have written best-selling books, so I guess now we can call them a “power couple.” I recently finished reading A Promised Land, Barack Obama’s memoir of the first part of his presidency. And just a couple of months ago, I read Becoming, Michelle Obama’s telling of their family’s life...
As the Democrats begin their debate season, they need to focus on putting forward their positive message and leaving the negativity to Trump and the Russians....
This wasn’t an easy post to write. I first thought about compiling a list of the embarrassing stuff Trump has done late in the fall of 2017. But as 2018 has begun, in just the first three weeks we’ve been overwhelmed with news stories; probably half a dozen things have happened this year that,...
Spell it: C-O-L-L-U-S-I-O-N Define it: secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose • acting in collusion with the enemy (Merriam Webster) Use it in a sentence: “I think it’s been proven that there’s no collusion.” (President Donald Trump, 16 times in his December 28 interview with the New York Times, and just about...
In my last post, I promised I wouldn’t tell you who to vote for. Maybe I should have....
In my previous post, I offered five ways to fix our election process that will probably never happen because they depend on Congress taking positive action. Today I’m writing about something that we can all do, individually, to make our elections better. As a decidedly amateur photographer, I know that the easiest thing in the world...
Ever since I fixed baseball a few years back, the public has been clamoring for me to fix our political system. Well, I’m not sure I can fix everything, but we can start with the process of running elections. Here are my top five recommendations, to start: 1) Dump the electoral college. This one...
Sure, there are other reasons I wanted to try life without caffeine for a while. Lent was one, sleep issues another. But there was also something about watching this guy perform in the presidential derby last year that was pretty inspirational. He went toe-to-toe with the president of the United States and, in...
Talk about “vapid.” On “Morning Joe” today (click for link), the panelists sat around and complained about how little substance there is in this year’s presidential campaign. “Am I the only one depressed here?” asks Joe. Then the other panelists groan and say yes, they, too, are depressed by this state of affairs. They...
I’ve just finished reading The Submission, a novel by Amy Waldman. It was one of the most powerful books I’ve read lately. It begins as a jury is picking the winner of an anonymous competition to design the memorial at Ground Zero in New York City. Primarily at the urging of one member—who had...
