At the top of where the Angel’s Flight Trolley once deposited its riders (and hopefully will again one day), nestled between a pair of
Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile told the officer who shot them, “I have a gun.” They may have thought that giving out this
…and the biggest problem with democracy is that every damn fool gets one vote. You heard me right. The metric I’m using to judge
The incident that actually coined the phrase "October Surprise" came when Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon’s National Security Advisor, lied just days before the 1972
Ironic, isn’t it? We’ve endured eight years of haters excoriating Barack Obama for his use of teleprompters, and a year of repeated tirades by Trump himself.
An advisor to Donald Trump recently explained the candidate’s multiple (and conflicting) positions on most issues with: Words don’t matter. Wow, who knew? Apparently, words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsYJyVEUaC4 So Leslie Gore is crying because someone messed with her party? She’s clearly not a 2016 Republican. The sound you hear out in GOP-land is not
One of my favorite game announcers for the San Francisco Giants is a former Giant himself, pitcher Mike Krukow. He works numerous trademark sayings
Candidates, hang yourselves! Nobody does it better than you. The victories scored by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the April 26 primaries would seem
The Republican side of this primary season, nearing its final throes, is playing out like a vintage horror movie that features only villains. Cartoonist
As I write this, it’s just a few days until the crucial Wisconsin primary, and the impossible is seemingly in play: Donald Trump trailing
(Now please, if you can’t make it through this rather long winded harangue of homage, simply scroll to the end and check out the
Terrifying in some circles, hotly desired in others: the party divided by a populist revolution and defeated by an electorate that cannot unify behind
In the Good Old Days that Donald Trump talks about at rallies, jackboots are apparently the style. And I say “are” because those times never
And when chemotherapy fails, what’s left—Kryptonite? There’s no easy cure for the cancer that is metastasizing in the Republican Party right now. As you may
In my previous post, I quoted MSNBC reporter Chuck Todd speculating that the period before the South Carolina primary—now a mere memory—would be like
When I think that political discourse has hit a new low--twice a week these days--I sometimes remind myself of the brutal caning of Senator Charles
Schadenfreude [shahd-n-froi-duh] noun. Satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune. Serve it up ice cold! Tribal Council finally arrived. Two of ’em. And blood was spilled.
This is actually a treatment, the longer form that follows a successful pitch …because a treatment is longer and lots more fun and because
At 11:30 on New Year’s Eve, a friend asked me what actual “new” things would come in 2016. The political junkie in me rose