Last night in several American cities, thousands of people took to the street to protest Donald Trump being elected president. To what end? What are they hoping to accomplish? If this was just an exercise in blowing off steam while getting together with other pissed-off Americans, okay, but the election results will not change. While […]
Random thoughts on the night the presidency became an entry-level position… Donald Trump was right about one thing: we were tired of winning, so we’re all going to lose for the foreseeable future. Donald Trump is the first US President to have no governmental or military experience. Even the new Governor of Missouri, Eric Greitens, […]
Just voted. At 11am, there were a hundred people in line (or as we used to say in New York, on line), most of whom used the touch screens. It seemed like a lot more women than past elections. Total time, entrance to exit: about 45 minutes. Seems like a good time to review the […]
This picture made me smile today. It’s the gravesite of suffragette Susan B. Anthony, where people have been adding their “I Voted” stickers. Demand is so high that the cemetery will stay open extra hours on Election Day to accommodate crowds who — 110 years after her death and 94 years after women won the […]
Kathleen Parker says your anxiety about the outcome of this election has been driven by The Great American Fear Machine: Through media in all its forms, we exhaust and are exhausted by the insignificant. To tune in is to believe that Western civilization is nearing collapse, regardless of who holsters up and swaggers into the […]
It’s November 2, and you know what that means. We have one week until the 2020 presidential election campaign begins.