Trump

Bipartisan Style Tips. Free of Charge.

Maybe they should all try decaf.

Culture

Grannie Dannie Needs a Gummie, Bezos Bought a Bride

The same old story: Married nerd father meets married Fox TV anchor mom. Married nerd almost loses married TV anchor, but whips out a pic of his... balance sheet. Nerd and TV anchor hook up and tangle like a couple of meth infused weasels.

Trump

Thank you For Your Attention To This Matter

No more endless wars...OK, except this one.

Trump

"We Love You God"

Nobody changes leaders in the middle of war. Trump, hammered in the polls for tariffs and DOGE cuts, is posturing as a war president and using phrases like this attack “was the likes of what the world has never seen,” and “We love you God,” even as he is launching an unprovoked attack on Iran.

Trump

I, Love a Parade

By all accounts, the whole Trump parade thing seemed pretty dull. It was less Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" and more Bill Murray's "Stripes."

personal

Hey, No Trump This Week.

We both needed a break, not to mention the country.

Trump

Apocalypse...Uh...Not Now. Somewhere Down the Road

It's been a heck of a week, Brownie.

Trump

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Pride Edition

Musk wanted to stay in his role beyond the 130-day time limit set by statute. But, love grows stale, it seems, and a 4-month relationship is more than Trump could bear. The Oval Office simply couldn't continue to hold two egos of this size. Our daddies are breaking up.

Trump

The Book of War

"Americans don’t have the only culture on the planet struggling with values, but we seem unable to stop funding weapons and wars while we take food and hope and health from children."

Trump

A Deaf Ear to Heaven

I want you mad enough to give me money.

Trump

Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL...

That was the week that was.

personal stories

My Mother, The Ghost

"Where are the kids, the ones that were here a minute ago?" My mother, in the throes of dementia, was looking for my sister and me as children. Dementia is a brutal disease.

Trump

The Thrill is Gone

Your nighttime dreams are forgotten as you doomscroll yourself awake. There's no time for daydreams as your phone pings with every Trump alert. Our mental health is in decline as the country falls off the World Happiness Chart.

Border

Gulag America

The process, as everyone knows, is called “profiling.” If you approach the checkpoint as a white person, the odds of you being detained are minimal. Traveling north while brown is more problematic.

Trump

The Art of the Deal, OK, Sort of...

Yes, it's TDS. Trump Distraction Syndrome.

Trump

"You Effed Up. You Trusted Us."

Can we get a mulligan on the last election?

Texas Politics

"Thank God for Mississippi"

There isn’t a litter box in Texas big enough to contain the bullshit in his allegations that children are going to school dressed as cats and that teachers and administrators are accommodating them with littler boxes in classrooms.

Texas Politics

Loving Texas is Hard Sometimes

The Texas of my imagination collides with Dan Patrick.

Trump

Remember When We Listened to the Radio

"His pointing turned into jumping up and down, serious histrionics. I turned around and discovered that the red microphone light was still on and the morning audience had heard our entire conversation. The “Great Voice of the Great Plains” was swearing at people as they rolled out of bed."

Trump

The Nazification Escalation

Ridiculing the Trump deep state as Naziesque, joking around about his Nazi enablers seemed at times to be tiresome and so much amplified hysteria. Not anymore.

Trump

Dumb Corleone

He'll make you an offer you can't understand.

Trump

Render Unto Me That Which I Want

Holy Week in the holiest place in the nation, Washington. Well, actually...

Trump

The Fourth Reich

Lying and deception have always been a central facet of U.S. politics and policy. What we assumed separated us from the rest of the planet was this false notion that our governmental mechanics outed the bad actors. We put our faith in process, and we were fools.

Military

Boys With Toys

Making hard choices is what we overpay these people to do.

Military

A Lost Son of Texas

Freddy’s mother died last August at the age of 94. Were she still with us, she’d have another battle on her hands because The Medal of Honor recipient’s name, photo, and story have been taken down from Pentagon and Department of Defense and the Naval History and Heritage Command web sites.