16Oct 21, 2017
This one’s going to be short. The hubbub about what President Trump said to the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, one of four soldiers killed in Niger, is a tempest in the teapot. There are some people, and I’m one of them, who have difficulty finding the right words of comfort to the bereaved. […]
17Oct 17, 2017
There is a joke: People who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it–as well as the eighth grade. Which brings me to a recent quote from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a televised message to President Trump: Re-read your history books. The problem there, of course, it that it implies that Trump read them the first […]
18Sep 3, 2017
Last year, I lost a dear friend to a long and painful bout with lung cancer that then metastasized into her bones and finally her brain. It was a horrible way to die, and reaffirmed my own determination to go with a reasonable amount of comfort and as much of my dignity as I can […]
19Aug 27, 2017
It is not possible to be even remotely connected with the Trump administration without getting criticized for something–he has that toxic effect, sort of a reverse Midas touch. Even poor Barron, his son, got lambasted for his choice of T-shirt–as if kids are supposed to care about how they dress! Personally, I found his attire […]
20Aug 18, 2017
Okay, this was way too much. A Missouri state senator, Maria Chappelle-Nadal, briefly posted on her personal Facebook that she hated President Trump because of the “trauma and despair” the president is causing with his statements about the events in Charlottesville, Va., and–this is the kicker–“I hope Trump is assassinated!” She did not mean it […]