May 2017

Hearing it from DNC Chair, Tom Perez, was one thing, but I feel extra-vindicated, somehow, hearing America’s most celebrated intellectual and leftist, Prof. Noam Chomsky, call “shenanigans” on the vote-suppressing farce that was the 2016 Democratic Primary. RE: DEFEATING DONALD TRUMP AND THE GOP If we don’t reform this broken and corrupted system, the Democrats will continue selecting right-wing corporate… Read More »“…(Bernie) would have won the Democratic nomination if it hadn’t been for the SHENANIGANS of the party managers.”

I just had to explain who Condoleezza Rice is to some poor fellow under the impression that she is some kind of model American who served her country well. Here’s my corrective, taking us back to those innocent “pre-fascist” days when the U.S. invaded Iraq on the basis of a bunch of cynically concocted hooey… With respect, as NSA and… Read More »I just had to explain who Condoleezza Rice is…

I ASK YOU: Don’t you think I’d rather spend all of my days painting (for more than a few hours/day, a few days/week), and reading LITERATURE every day (instead of news, history, and political theory, 90% of the time), and writing fantasy yarns and humorous anecdotes (rather than heart-on-sleeve, indignation-fueled polemics)? Don’t you imagine I’d rather be reading Shakespeare and… Read More »WHY I GADFLY — Science Edition

This is what tragedy looks like: A bellicose, belligerent idiot-naif of a president getting cowed and broken in his First 100 Days in office — outflanked and absorbed by the machinery of fascism — with his base singing his praises, as if he were still the anti-establishment person he campaigned as. Only he’s not (aside from the demagoguery). And whaddaya’… Read More »Obama and Trump: The Tragedy of the First 100 Days