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Monthly Archives: May 2017

That’s the way you do it

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

I’ve got my doubts about France’s new president, Macron, but I must say I like this: Standing next to Putin, Macron told Xenia Fedorova, the head of the Kremlin-financed channel RT France, that her reporters had been denied access to his campaign headquarters before the vote because they had been acting not as journalists but […]

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Redistribution, Republican style

Sunday, May 28, 2017

Dean Baker sets the record straight about the Republican’s alleged aversion to redistribution: Matt O’Brien’s Wonkblog piece might have misled readers on Republicans views on the role of government. O’Brien argued that the reason that the Republicans have such a hard time designing a workable health care plan is: “Republicans are philosophically opposed to redistribution, […]

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Subtle passes for Trump

Saturday, May 27, 2017

Donald Trump has often claimed that our NATO allies are not paying what the owe. Normally, the way he phrases what he says, he leaves the impression that they owe the money to the United States. I’ve often wondered what he is talking about, and have searched in vain for explanations in the newspaper articles […]

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A bit of history

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Who was the best president in the time since I was born? I’ve often thought about that question. I put Harry Truman to the side, as I can’t recall anything about him. All the Republicans can be set to the side as well. Despite the Vietnam War and its disastrous aftermath, I keep coming back […]

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An idea whose time has long since come

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

I read about this several years ago, and unless my aging mind is letting me down, I wrote a post or two about it, at or around the time when the bankers destroyed the economy: Across the country, community activists, mayors, city council members, and more are waking up to the power and the promise […]

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This is Alec Baldwin, isn’t it?

Monday, May 22, 2017
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He’s no Nixon

Saturday, May 20, 2017

I got out a bit of a kick out of this article (My First Big Boy Trip), at Slate. Trump is quite like a spoiled child. It got me to thinking. Back during Nixon’s downfall I was a law student, living at home in Hartford. On many an evening I would trek to a friend’s […]

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Poor Piglet

Friday, May 19, 2017

Poor Us.

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Everything is the opposite of what it is, isn’t it?

Friday, May 19, 2017

I once bought a Playboy publication. And I really did buy it just for the interviews, because it was a paperback collection of the best interviews up to that time (circa 1981). The Mel Brooks interviews were hilarious, by the way. But, I digress yet again. One of the interviews was with John and Yoko, […]

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So far, so good

Thursday, May 18, 2017

There are times when it feels good to admit you were wrong, and this is one of those times. When the Comey thing broke I said it would be forgotten by the following weekend, but at least so far, it is still front and center. Of course, the Donald, in his own childish way, has […]

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