Tag: painful truths
Why Royal Wannabees Fear Liberals
The Right Wing Noise Machine is now turning its bile on Liberal Republicans like George Will and David Frum for putting national loyalty ahead...
The Case for Stripping Trump Morons of the Vote
It’s a rare and wonderful thing when a highly educated, award-winning, liberal journalist committed to the greater good finds themselves on the same side...
Ship of Fools, Leaderless and Adrift
Ever ridden in a speeding car with a raging drunk at the wheel?
Yes, you have - we all have - because that's the current...
The Futurist Case for Fuck, Shit and Sentence Frags
People used to say human knowledge doubled every seven years when I was breaking into journalism in the 1990s, but futurists claim the breakneck pace of...
The Trump Challenge: Tell Ruskies “Fuck Off”
The problem with the United States right now is that most Americans would hire a Mexican day laborer to carry their burden of citizenship...
Defining Trump: A Pussy’s Pussy
Apologies to those who view "pussy" as a sexist slur, but the term was so pervasive in the Bronx during my youth that I find myself reflexively...
Trump Biographer Indicates President is a Schmuck
My Columbia University Journalism School classmate Tim O'Brien, a former Trump biographer, said the president has close ties to the Russian Mob in a...
Trump’s Handshake Says He’s Putin’s Sub
The first time I met old-school Georgia Sheriff Arnold Ray Akins in 1993, he reached out to greet me and then turned his massive paw above...
In Defense of Liberal Intolerance
"No freebies" was one of the guiding principles I grew up with in the Bronx - one of America's great working class communities and a bastion of...
Gun-Toting Granny Caps Son
Anna Mae Blessing, 92, gave birth to a son 72 years ago and raised him up with the expectation she would be treated with...