6Jan 18, 2018
It’s official. President Donald Trump has passed a cognitive test with flying colors, thus putting the kibosh on widespread speculation that he is slipping into dementia. I am cynical enough to notice that he specifically asked to take the cognitive test, and that as a president with vast resources when he bothers to use them, […]
7Jan 7, 2018
No politics today. I intend to wax philosophical. Try not to snore. I have just finished reading a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fancy’s Showbox: A Morality. In it, a man nearing the end of his life is haunted by scenes of crimes he never committed, but wanted to, or even attempted and failed. The verdict: […]
8Jan 1, 2018
This end-of-year post finds me more dismal than Scrooge before he met Marley’s ghost and his three little helpers. Our country and our democracy have had a very bad year, and I don’t know what awaits us in 2018. Part of this is brought on by a warning from Joe Scarborough (MSNBC’s Morning Joe), but […]
9Dec 16, 2017
I’m just now coming down from the euphoria of Roy Moore’s defeat in the U.S. Senate race. I am so grateful to the women who dredged up the memories of being stalked in their teens by the old (over 30) man. I am grateful to the true Republicans whose stomachs churned at the thought of […]
10Dec 9, 2017
There’s an old poor excuse for a joke: When a lady says no, she means maybe; when a lady says maybe, she means yes; and when a lady says yes, she’s no lady. When I entered my sexual prime, I came up with my own version: When I mean yes, I say yes; when I […]