THAT was an eventful month

The country started to release stay-at-home orders in more places than it probably should during May, but then on May 25 worry about that was overtaken by the murder of a black man by a Minneapolis cop. George Floyd was suffocated by a policeman who put his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck while Floyd was …

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Distract them, distract them!

Today was Day Two of the public impeachment inquiry hearings, and I suspect Trump is feeling less than happy. The House is moving along and he can’t control it. When he tweets about it he gets slapped down, even by his favorite network. That was a turning point in this hearing so far. She was …

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Only the best people, huh?

That’s how Trump described the people he’d hire to work for him in the White House and at the Cabinet agencies. We’ve all seen how that’s worked out, what with Scott Pruitt fired in disgrace from EPA, Tom Price ditto from HHS, Michael Flynn fired from NSA, Jeff Sessions from Justice, David Shulkin from the …

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Bye-bye, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

What do you suppose Jeff Sessions’ tipple of choice is, and is he consuming it by the bucketful this evening? After all, he gave up a secure Senate seat two years ago for what quickly turned out to be a mess of pottage. Compelled by law to recuse himself from the Russia – Trump campaign …

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#Boycott NRA takes off

United and Delta cut ties with the NRA. …in abandoning the NRA, the airlines followed car rental giants Avis, Hertz and Enterprise, the Best Western hotel chain, the global insurance company MetLife, and more than a dozen other corporations that have severed affiliations with the gun group in the last two days. 15 brands have …

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Twit-nit in Chief

There was a mass shooting in California today. Our illustrious President tweeted his condolences to the victims and their families this evening. Trouble is, he addressed those condolences to the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas, which had its mass shooting ten days ago. The charitable thing would be to attribute this error to jet lag. …

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Evangelicals and sex

We have before us Judge Roy Moore, twice-removed Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and currently candidate for the US Senate in the same state, who stands accused of fondling a 14-year-old girl when he was in his thirties, several decades ago. This is the same Judge Moore who was thrown off the State Supreme …

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A question

How is it that the Republican Party repeatedly says gun control laws won’t work and aren’t needed but continually says more and more restrictive abortion laws are desperately needed? “The shooters will just get guns on the black market,” they say when arguing against restrictions on gun purchasers. But when one points out that women …

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