Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Jack Shafer says "Stop Being Trump's Twitter Fool"... By this time you’d expect that people would have figured out when Donald Trump is yanking their chain and pay him the same mind they do phone calls tagged “Out of Area” by Caller ID. But, no. Like Pavlov’s dog, too...
Picture Of The Day
Jon Stewart with Charlie Rose on "CBS This Morning" today, discussing the state of America now that it has elected Donald Trump as our 45th President...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Kurt Eichenwald -- who did tremendous reporting this year on Donald Trump, his campaign, and his suspicious business practices -- has a piece in Newsweek on the myths Democrats swallowed that cost them the presidential election. One of those myths is that, based on a...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
My brother Seth, the former US Deputy Secretary Of Labor, has compiled a list of how Democrats should respond to Trump's labor policies -- those they should support (e.g. infrastructure, child care, retirement security) and those they should oppose (e.g....
Dave Chapelle on SNL
Dave Chappelle returned to TV last night to host "Saturday Night Live" and opened with the strongest monologue anyone has performed on that show in a very long time. It was topical and a bit profane (I'm sure they had to edit for the west coast feed), but it was very...
Careful What You Wish For
Note to liberals hoping Trump is impeached: you do realize that means President Mike Pence, don't you?
To What End?
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...
It’s Mourning In America
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...