It Doesn’t Matter If They Boo

It Doesn’t Matter If They Boo

Trump made a big deal out of the people in the stands at this weekend’s NFL games who booed the players who kneeled during the anthem — because in Trump’s world of narcissism, public opinion is the only thing that matters. Unless it’s against Trump, of course. Then it’s not valid, like the polls that […]

Regression Exemplified

If you think Trump hasn’t done much to damage America because he has failed to get any major legislation through Congress, take a look at this list of rules and policies he has undone by executive order or changes ordered by his various executive branch agencies (as compiled by Philip Bump of the Washington Post).

I’m Just Saying

Considering how much Trump likes to put down people he considers “losers,” I’d think he’d be happy to see Confederate statues being torn down. After all, the Confederacy lost the Civil War over 150 years ago — and I guarantee that if they’d won, there wouldn’t be any statues of Union generals anywhere in the […]

Duck And Cover, Guam!

Duck And Cover, Guam!

I don’t know anyone who is Guamanian. In fact, I just learned that’s what people from Guam are called (as opposed to Guamite, which sounds like their version of a salty yeast spread). But I’m surprised that their summer weather is just like ours in St. Louis — hot and very humid. I thought it […]

I’m Just Asking

Before taking office, Donald Trump promised he would hire “the best people” for his administration. Yet, in less than seven months, he has brought in and then let go: Anthony Scaramucci, communications director Reince Priebus, chief of staff Sean Spicer, press secretary Michael Dubke, communications director Michael Flynn, national security advisor Now the rumor mill […]

Fifth Avenue Requiem

From Will Durst (reprinted with permission)… Anybody remember when Donald Trump boasted, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot someone and wouldn’t lose voters”? Now that we’ve seen him operate for six months, we have a pretty good idea how that would go down. First he’d shoot someone in the middle […]