Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Talk about a mic drop.In the final four paragraphs of Julie Bosman's piece in the NY Times about the candidates for governor in Illinois, she writes about this interaction between Republican Jeanne Ives and Democrat Chris Kenney... At a bipartisan candidate forum in...
Rebuttals To Gun Lovers In Denial
I haven't had much to say about the mass murder last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, because I didn't think I could offer anything different than what lots of other people have already said. But today I have several rebuttals to the...
My Final Radio Guest — My Brother Seth
As the final guest on my final radio show, I brought back my brother Seth to talk about his career in politics and what to expect going forward.
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...
Random Thoughts
Using our voices instead of our fingers to get information from search providers and elsewhere is becoming more and more common. I recently bought an Amazon Alexa and am amazed at how good it is at voice recognition. I rarely have to repeat myself, and the response is...
Is Bill Clinton Saying #NotMe?
A couple of years ago, my wife and I became subscribers to the St. Louis Speakers Series, where we've had the pleasure of listening to such luminaries as John Cleese, Jeffrey Toobin, Rita Moreno, Ted Koppel, Jon Meacham, and two former prime ministers -- England's...
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...
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...