Picture Of The Day: Trump’s Best People
This video from the NY Times speaks for itself — and I love the 1970s sitcom font on the titles…
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
My friend Nolan Dalla has a piece about how Donald Trump reminds him of Archie Bunker. He runs down some of the similarities, and ends with these two differences: Archie Bunker was a lower-middle-class working man who often struggled financially, but always somehow found a way to make ends meet. Donald Trump was born into […]
Legal Responses Of The Day
The tweet from President Donald Trump: “We are going to take a strong look at our country’s libel laws, so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about someone, that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts.” The response from ACLU attorney Brian Hauss: President Trump’s threat to revise current libel […]
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
In the NY Times, James Poniewozik writes about the president’s TV addiction: The problem is not how much TV Mr. Trump watches. It’s the kind of TV he watches. As Mr. Trump’s associates report and his Twitter feed confirms, his video diet of choice is cable news, the most agitating, psychically toxic programming you can […]
A Political Prediction
If Roy Moore is elected today, I predict there will quickly be calls for a boycott of Alabama akin to the one in North Carolina after that state’s bathroom law was passed. Of course, Alabama can’t lose a Super Bowl or MLB/NBA/NHL All-Star game, but businesses and tourists might stay away. If he does pull […]
Chris Matthews, “Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit”
Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, who was then three years into his first term as a US Senator, and just 80 days into his candidacy for president of the United States. Chris Matthews, the host of MSNBC’s Hardball, has written about RFK’s brother in the books “Jack Kennedy—Elusive […]