Politics and its Discontents

I'm kind of busy lately and don't have time today for a lengthy post. However, one quick observation, and then a suggestion for the ...

 I love it when there is even an iota of accountability at Fox. If you would like to read further about this political madness, check out Ed...

H/t Michael de Adder

You may note that in the title of this post, I chose the informal version of all right , lest there be any doubt about the ideology of many ...

One of our much-vaunted attributes as a species is our resilience. Our ability to recover from trauma, tragedy and setbacks is the stuff of ...

We all knew them growing up - the kid who would do anything to curry favour with the teacher, the one we knew variously as 'the brown-no...

... claim voter fraud. That is what the notoriously graceless Alabama loser and alleged pedophile Roy Moore is asserting, as he steadfastly ...

This is what former Supreme Court Justice David Souter said four years ago. I think you will quickly see the reason for the post's title...

.... may I suggest Trump On A Stump?

The other day I came across the following stinging but very accurate indictment of those who voted for Donald Trump: Not all Trump suppor...

Yesterday, my post consisted of three letters culled from a larger series by Star readers reflecting on the dire state of both the U.S. R...

Unless you have taken a strong slug of a particular Kool-Aid, I suspect you will be suitably appalled by the following. Indeed, the response...

I readily admit to not following U.S. politics too closely; my emotional resilience has limits. However, given the American media saturati...

I'll defer to others much better versed than I am in the vagaries of international politics to offer a more informed analysis, but the r...

Synonym Discussion of equivocate lie, prevaricate, equivocate, palter, fib mean to tell an untruth. lie is the blunt term, imputing dish...

Not that he had any semblance of previous virtue, but yesterday former Republican presidential nomination contender Chris Christie confirm...

Some years ago, Rick Mercer had a special called Talking To Americans , its purpose being to satirize the profound ignorance many of our U.S...

As a retired person with no financial pressures, I realize that I am probably part of a comfortable minority. Many across a wide demograph...

There's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other. So said the first woman to become the United States Secretary...

And it sounds like Stephen Colbert has missed her. I haven't. UPDATE: If the above does not sate your appetite for all things Palin...