Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court seems as certain as a Trump misspelling. Beneath a hurricane of political fuckery, he has sailed a relatively gentle wave to the highest court. With a simple straight partisan vote, the Court will veer hard right. And when Ruth Bader Ginsberg kicks the bucket (she …
What a golden-egged goose Donald Trump has been to late night. In many ways, he is King Midas, imploring Dionysus for the golden touch, only to learn to be careful what you ask for. And he has asked for a lot — to the delight of the comically-inclined left. A magic wall. Witch-hunt recognition. …
Robert Mueller seems the kind of guy who could recite the rule book of Monopoly chapter and verse. After all, his life is punctuated by the rules of conduct. In July 1968, he was sent to South Vietnam, where he served as a rifle platoon leader with the Marines. He was cited for valor for …
“Congress shall be afforded the opportunity to ban family separation by anyone who cannot spell it.”
My mother, a first-grade teacher her entire career, implemented the greatest inspiration/discouragement tool I’ve ever seen in education: The Yes and No Board. It was a simple chalkboard, divided in two, with the words YES on one side, NO on the other. If a child was especially good, the youngster got his or her …
Donald Trump is to football what, well, Donald Trump is: out of his depth. He put that on display this week when he un-invited the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles to the White House, a once-annual tradition for champions in professional football, basketball and baseball. In depositions from NFL owners obtained by the Wall Street …
There are two questions that continue to ember in the wake of Roseanne Barr’s sudden disappearance from prime time TV. One is the speed of her firing. Within hours of her tweet describing a black woman as a cross between the Muslim brotherhood and Planet of the Apes, ABC ruled she was done. Gone. …
It’s easy to feel we’re moving backward. With rogue Keebler Elf Jeff Session at the legal wheel as Attorney General, it’s tempting to fret a liberal future: Our president does not believe in science and the Supreme Court is shaded red by a robe. Evangelical citizens have have the right to deny business services …
Amazon is going to revoke my membership for sure. First, I wrote to Jeff Bezos asking him why his Amazon logo looks like an erect penis, arching toward a vaginal “O” (I still await a response, Jeff). Then I attempted to play provocateur on the Amazon website, which featured an absurd webcam that tosses …
Man, Donald Trump must suck at movie trivia. He clearly doesn’t remember much of The Godfather II. The series has provided reams of classic quotes in film lore, including making offers that cannot be refused. In the sequel, Michael Corleone gave one as equally memorable: “My father taught me many things here. He taught …
The Hollywood Bowles 