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One other difference between Nixon & Trump (see previous post) -  we didn't know that Nixon was a paranoid, vindictive, alcoholic, m...

I was a wee lad when Watergate dominated the news. I came of political age reading Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing on the ...

2017. An improbable number. Arbitrary. Just a number. Not a lot of meaning in that number. Just a way to keep score. The first day of the ...

Death-haunted. 2016 was that kind of year. I mean, you could probably say that about every year, right? All of us, haunted by death to one d...

Another political writer that I have been turning to, is David Frum, Senior Editor at the Atlantic. I suppose it is fair to say that he is r...

Yes, still mulling over that great article and interview I posted about yesterday (see previous post) . There's this from Stuart Jeffr...

What makes Sunny sunny? Sometimes? Finding out interesting, thoughtful things. Ideas! Things to roll around in my over-charged little brain....

There has been a "rumor" floating around for a few months. I've heard about it from friends in the neighborhood, and read it o...

Looking for a different narrative this morning... not the same old story... Maybe cosmological? Ecological? Geological? Anthropological? S...

Yes. Merry Christmas 2016. What's on my mind this morning? How journalists covered the rise of Mussolini & Hitler.  I wonder why? ...

Yes, as they say, "The Emperor has no clothes." Let Politico explain: "On Election Day, just 38 percent of voters had a favo...

Thursdays I usually turn to the Style Section of the NYTimes. You'd be surprised how entertaining and enlightening the world of fashion ...

Then, here in the Midwest, we enter that time where we basically go from dark to dark. And if it's a cloudy day, we go from dark to less...

Words float up from the bottom of the well of my consciousness... Vigilance. Resistance. Opposition. Protest.  And also... Truth. Fact...

People do stupid shit. All the time. And sometimes they suffer for it. Which is life, right? The way it's supposed to be? You do somethi...

Robbie Robertson of The Band once wrote a great song called "Unfaithful Servant." Some of the lines include: "You don't ...

Nate Silver & Michael Lewis in conversation.  Two really smart guys finally get to one really, really dumb guy. And what's funny, ac...

*Yes, a persona . Pretty much smoke & mirrors. Held together by baling wire & chewing gum. *When in doubt, I check in with my Pre...

Ok. Never mind. Having a "sunny disposition," is not a superpower.  Or if it is, the "kryptonite" to be used against it ...

The land of the Spooks. Intelligence. Counter-Intelligence. Lies. Deceptions. False-Flags. Information. Disinformation. Bizarro-World. Wor...