Monthly Archives: May 2017

Try as I might, I’ll be damned if I can think of historical analogies to Russia’s intervention in the 2016 election — and as I sit here thinking about it now, that seems odd. We have always had enemies; surely … Continue reading →

What do you know? It seems that House Republicans suspected that Vladimir Putin was Donald Trump’s sponsor during last year’s campaign. They now claim that it was just a joke — but how could that be funny if there wasn’t … Continue reading →

With all of the illegal acts that took place in the Clinton campaign & Obama Administration, there was never a special councel appointed! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2017

Born on this date in 1872, Bertrand Russell was a mathematician, a philosopher, and among the most graceful essayists who ever lived. I had never heard of him before his death in 1970 (I was then in high school), but … Continue reading →

The relentless and painful crudities, the serial lies, the gratuitous insults of vastly more accomplished people, the blinding ignorance, the strange lack of curiosity, the preening Nazi-sympathizers and resolutely ignorant evangelicals who flocked to him, the plain corruption … we … Continue reading →