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When infrastructure meets road

Republicans are under attack.Who鈥檚 behind the outrage aimed squarely in their direction?Their fellow Republicans.This is gonna be fun.Georgia鈥檚 ever-undignified congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, has made it her personal crusade to attack many of her 32 fellow Republicans who claimed ...

Building Big Bird Back Better

Building Big Bird Back BetterI don鈥檛 have anything against Big Bird.He鈥檚 fine as far as I鈥檓 concerned.But I鈥檓 73 years old. I鈥檝e never quite been in that big fellow鈥檚 target audience.So, when that 8-foot 2-inch, anthropomorphic bird found himself in the crosshairs of a U.S. senator, ...

The case against critical race fear-mongering

Beware of Obamacare!Those 鈥渄eath panels鈥 are brutal.Remember them?They were hatched out of thin air by Republicans, with hopes of thwarting President Obama鈥檚 proposed health-care reform bill in 2009.It was the boogeyman the folks on the right used as shorthand for the predicted danger ...

Our colorful language again!

I鈥檓 beside myself with ... Hey, wait!I can鈥檛 possibly be beside myself.That鈥檚 physiologically impossible.So is when you tell somebody to, 鈥渨atch your mouth.鈥漈hey鈥檙e a couple of terms Americans use in our thriving arsenal of idioms.Stuff that can鈥檛 be taken literally.Back in June, ...

Fox News鈥 COVID blind spot

The death of Colin Powell meant the loss of another American hero.He was beloved and respected on all sides of America鈥檚 ever-widening political divide.Minutes after his death was announced, tributes filled the 24-hour news stations.Some of those tributes were tearful. All were sincere.I was ...

Jon Gruden claims he doesn鈥檛 have a racist bone in his body.It鈥檚 not his bones that got him into trouble.It was his brain and his typing fingers that landed the onetime Super Bowl-winning coach in hot water.As a result, he鈥檚 now taking his coaching talents to the unemployment line.After ...