Politics

Mar 30, 2020

General President Trump

Donald Trump, no doubt, likening himself to Winston Churchill, is now calling himself a “wartime president”. Imagine how Donald Trump would

Dec 13, 2019

House Democrat Dream Speech

My republican colleagues are right. I have never liked Donald Trump. I do not like vulgarians, bullies and liars. I began to dislike him...

Aug 26, 2019

HITLER lite

For much of my adult life I held on to an uncharitable prejudice against ALL adult Germans living between 1920 and 1945. I believed that...

Aug 5, 2019

Why I Hate Republicans

WHY I HATE REPUBLICANS; EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM; INCLUDING THEIR GODAM CATS AND DOGS Has a single republican come out vehemently against...

Dec 6, 2018

Donald Trump. 1946-2027

August 5, 2027. Trump Tower Penthouse. Present: Eric, Barron, Ivanka and Tiffany. Via Skype: Don Jr. Eric “Well, here we...

Dec 2, 2018

Letter To A Friend

Dear Marvin, I am sorry that you have decided NOT to maintain our political cyber-intercourse. Perhaps this letter will find its way into...

Oct 2, 2018

You Gotta Love Them Russians

My older brother studied mathematics at Stanford and then went on to read Philosophy at Harvard. He can explain quantum mechanics,...

Sep 27, 2018

Brett or Bart?

It has been many, many years since I looked at my prep school yearbook. Notwithstanding my age and onset dementia, I do remember however,...

Nov 13, 2016

The Rise and Fall of Amerika

The Rise and Fall of Amerika Or a Brief Chronology of the Origins of World War III Friday, 20 January 2017: just after noon, after having...

Aug 26, 2016

The Debates!

Lets face it; we all love hating Donald Trump. There used to be crucifixions, Christians and lions and gladiators, and then bear baiting,...

Dec 31, 2014

Trayvon Martin: Letter to the Editor of The New York Times

Every one of us with a three digit IQ knows who killed Trayvon Martin; the NRA. The NRA is the hand-maiden for the gun industry and...

Dec 31, 2014

“Respect Few, Fear None.”

Personally, I love government. I love my Social Security checks, Medicare, my Golden Age Pass; and I love the government agencies which...

Dec 31, 2014

FEMA and KATRINA

I cannot understand all the fuss about the government’s tepid response to Hurricane Katrina. To be perfectly honest, all this carping is...

Dec 31, 2014

I HAD NO IDEA

We had a few graduate students over for dinner the other night and one of them said that “Catherine the Great was fucked to death by a...

Dec 31, 2014

Glen Beck’s: The Year 2039 in Review

(3 AM reading material for Elizabeth Warren at senate climate-change all-nighter) 2039 was an excellent year for America as the “Russian...

Dec 31, 2014

Thank God, We’re Free at Last

How I have longed for this day every day for eight years! Now, at last, I can sleep, work, read, write, make art, plant some lilacs,...

Dec 31, 2014

Ferguson Is Here.

To The Seattle Times Ferguson can happen anywhere, anytime. It tried to happen Wednesday morning on the #40 bus heading north from...

Dec 31, 2014

Docking

“The mammalian tail, present in all mammalian species, has evolved as a surprisingly multi-purpose and important appendage”. Department...

May 5, 2014

King County Metro

Well, the One Percenters have done it again. The Seattle Times pretty much single-handedly convinced a lot of Seattle voters that Seattle...