Tribal

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

A friend of mine, (one who knows I’ve just finished a year long project of re-reading the Bible—for the fifth or sixth time—and while

The GOP field presidential candidates held a noisy war drum circle on December 15

I’ve started this column several times, but the news keeps getting ahead of me. And not in a good way. Not something juicy like