Tweet Newspaper advice columns used to be entertaining, but easier to sort out. For instance, I just went hunting for some of Dear Abby’s zingers, and here’s a good one that showed up in a couple of places: Dear Abby: Are birth control pills deductible? Dear Bertie: Only if they don’t work. Ah, for those simpler […]
TweetThat would seem to be obvious, wouldn’t it, when we’re speaking of the white supremacists who demonstrated in Charlottesville? But I mean it more broadly. This comes to mind because of a piece I read in the NYT Saturday, before the violence that led to three deaths. The column, by Frank Bruni, wasn’t about Charlottesville. […]
TweetSometimes Rep. Mia McLeod loses me with her rhetoric. But hey, I — or some other grumpy heterosexual white guy — could have written this, from a missive she sent out Saturday: A reporter asked me whether I chose race over gender when I supported Sen. Obama over Sen. Clinton in 2008. But he didn’t […]
TweetCamille Paglia is a feminist, which I am not. She is also an atheist, which I am not — although I like her observation that “God is man’s greatest idea.” But she and I have some common ground on Identity Politics. The WSJ quoted this over the weekend. Here’s a link to the full interview, at reason.com: […]
TweetOK, that’s a slight exaggeration. It just sort of feels like that, after the conversations I’ve been having in recent days. Especially today. In response to Paul’s announcement that he’s going to skip Saturday’s Democratic primary and vote for Nikki Haley three weeks later, I said that Paul makes very valuable points, but “I’m not […]
TweetI struggled a bit coming up with a full list for that last Open Thread. But yesterday morning, I had enough topics before I’d even gotten through The Washington Post. Unfortunately, I had zero time for blogging. Some things that have come up are worth separate posts, and I hope I get to them soon. […]
Tweet I suppose I’ve been too focused on such things as the actual war — you know, that thing in Ukraine. I didn’t even realize this conflict was still going on, until I saw this headline this morning: The war on ‘Happy Holidays’ isn’t about Christmas I reacted to that by tweeting, “People are still […]
TweetPaul DeMarco didn’t specifically mention John Fetterman in his piece posted earlier, but he alluded to him when he mentioned what happened in Pennsylvania last month. And that reminded me of a selfie I snapped a couple of weeks ago. I had just stepped into the bathroom, and happened to glance in the mirror, and… […]
Tweet Someone I follow posted this today, quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “All I’m saying is simply this: that all mankind is tied together; all life is interrelated, and we are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of identity. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly… — […]
TweetI was listening at Mass on Sunday — I really was, to the best of my ability. But until I went back and read the Gospel reading again, and some commentary on it, I missed something that should have grabbed my attention right away. Here’s the relevant first half of the reading: Lk 3:10-18 The […]
Tweet Pew Research Center keeps trying to figure out what Americans really think. I’m aware of three different sets of political “typologies” the organization has created in recent years. I appreciate that, although personally I kind of liked the first one. Maybe it’s just that I preferred where the country was politically at that time. […]
TweetEditor’s note: I’m experimenting with editing the new version of the blog. Following up on my previous post about how fed up I am with most news these days… I just did a quick walk around the block (it’s a big block, just under a mile) — after lunch and before diving back into work. […]
Tweet At least, I hope and pray it will be his biggest mistake. We — by which I mean the United States, and the world that depends on it — can’t afford any bigger ones. That takes a lot of explanation, more than I have time to address tonight, but let me at least get started. […]
Tweet As y’all know, I’m no fan of Identity Politics. Often, though, I seem to fail to explain why to the satisfaction of all my readers. Let me try again. Today, I eagerly called up an op-ed piece in The Washington Post that was headlined, “The voting fix that cannot wait: Stopping partisan gerrymandering.” I […]
Tweet Here I go again asking whether you yearn to get out there amongst ’em — however you define “’em.” And trying to understand it. See the headline above. The picture — which I loved when I saw it a couple of weeks ago (the guy with his fist in the air seems to think […]
TweetThat’s essentially what I said on Twitter this morning about the Liz Cheney thing, and started to move on to other topics. But perhaps we should pause on that one for a moment, seeing how I may have been a trite too dismissive of the significance of this moment in American political history. Perhaps we should […]
TweetI was thinking about doing a rant against Identity Politics, which I still might do if I find time today or tonight, because now that Trump’s gone, it seems to be all we can talk about (the argument over motivations in the Atlanta shooting, this business over who gets to play on girls’ teams in […]
TweetThe mainstream media is bending backwards to depict the Atlanta mass shooting in a sexual massage parlor as a racially motivated crime. But they ignored completely suspect Robert Aaron Long’s own admission to the Cherokee Country Sheriff’s office that he was driven by sexual addiction… — email I received yesterday, offering me a source to […]
Tweet I was attracted to reading this by the grammatical error in the headline: “The Media Tries to Divide Republicans.” My plan was to mock it on Twitter. Of course, it should have said, “the media try,” what with “media” being the plural of “medium.” Duh. The author continued the error in the piece, with […]
Tweet As y’all know, I’m a huge Joe Biden fan. From the beginning, he was the one guy the country most needed to win the Democratic nomination for president, and he did it, and I couldn’t be more pleased. Of course, that doesn’t mean I agree with everything he does. I’ve never in my life […]