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;…

Saturday Night Live (SNL) has been a staple of late-night television comedy since 1975. Structured around an ensemble cast, and featuring weekly hosts and musical guests, it has become a presence in most of our lives for decades. That ensemble…

Looking back over the last year, it’s clear that any hope that the 1/6/21 riot at the US Capitol would have resulted in positive change was never going to be realized. Both political parties who could have, and should have,…

The second day of the impeachment trial of ex-President Donald Trump focused on recreating the events and timeline of the insurrection on January 6th, 2021. The House managers presentations contained many shocking and terrifying images. But among the elements of…

For a civil society to exist, there has to be agreement on some facts. There can be no democracy without a civil society. So here are a number of facts. Joe Biden was elected as President on November 3rd, 2020…

  “On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” – H.L. Mencken The next “election for America’s soul”…

Is it any wonder nearly everyone is exhausted by the first year of the Trump presidency? The ongoing tweets from the Orange Man combined with incoherent foreign and domestic policies; a Republican party that looks more all the time like…