Growing up in the the 1960s, I followed the NASA space program like I followed my favorite baseball teams. I knew the names of the astronauts as well as the baseball players on my Topps trading cards. I had a collection of plastic models of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecrafts, and of the lunar … Read more
When Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in November 2018 to lying to Congress, the documents filed with his plea deal didn’t explicitly name the person on whose behalf he had lied. It called him “Individual 1.” There was never any doubt that “Individual 1” was President Donald Trump. Michael Cohen: “Individual 1 is Donald J. Trump”: … Read more
In the chaos theory of governance of the Trump administration, so much craziness happens every day that it is easy to overlook important events in the din of noise. Which is really the whole point of chaos theory. Trump wants to overwhelm the senses with the vast volume of his craziness every day so that … Read more
I previously said that the Democratic candidates had until Labor Day to break out, and if it hadn’t happened for them by then, it ain’t gonna happen, time to get out. But the Democratic electorate is sorting out the two dozen or so candidates at a faster pace, and it may be possible to reduce … Read more
Our crypto-fascist racist Twitter-troll-in-chief held another Nuremberg-style campaign rally in North Carolina Wednesday night for his MAGA personality cult followers. Trump again used “the squad” of four Democratic women of color in Congress as his foil to rile up the white grievances of his mostly white nationalist base. Trump, and Republicans in general, are now … Read more