Trump often gives the game away, likely because he’s a malignant narcissist and psychopath – a game embraced and played by the majority in D.C.

(Note – after publishing, I realized MAFA was too long as one post) So back to the title. MAFA – Making Americans Frogs Again. Why frogs? Frogs, as in the old saying – how do you boil a frog? It…

MAGA – Make America Great Again!  (And no – the title is not an error). It’s a slogan; it’s a political movement; it’s a self-identifier for a percentage of the US electorate. And it’s basically just another scam. Make America…

A war criminal who violated the Constitution.

I went down to fish this morning at Purdy, which is about 2.3 miles from my house. Purdy is an unincorporated area that has a small bridge over a lagoon that leads to a nearby creek that is a salmon…

I did not vote for either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. I wish our political system could produce real leaders, whatever their personal failings, as opposed to demagogues and political hacks. But unfortunately, we have presidents like Bill Clinton, George…

The 2024 election is over, more or less – with a number of seats in the House of Representatives still to be decided. But it’s clear Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States – only being…

“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.” Captain Ahab’s words, spoken for him by Ishmael, the narrator of Herman Melville’s 1851 novel, explain his quest for Moby-Dick, the white whale. Soon after leaving Nantucket Island, Ahab…

As everyone knows, there was an attempted assassination of Donald Trump yesterday in Butler, Pennsylvania. One of the nine shots fired went past his head and may have nicked his ear. Three men on the elevated stand were also hit…

Donald Trump is a buffoon. He never understood the ways in which Washington DC worked: he didn’t fully staff his administration with cabinet officers and advisors who would genuinely support his goals and help him succeed in the DC swamp;…