I find it fascinating to contemplate similarities and differences between animals and humans.For instance, my ducks, it seems, love to hear me sing. Every morning, I empty the duck’s swimming pool and fill it with fresh water. As the pool fills, I wash that morning’s duck eggs and sing or ...
Where I come from, sucker-punching or body-slamming an unsuspecting adversary isn’t the mark of a tough guy. It’s a punk move, a half step above smacking a woman.Not to mention that newly elected Montana Republican congressman Greg Gianforte was the one surrounded by aides. Ben Jacobs, the ...
Why is Donald Trump pushing for a nuclear war?During his campaign, he told his supporters that he loves war, even nuclear war. Donald said if he were president, he would bomb the crap out of them. The base of deplorable ate it up with cheers and adulation. Now he seems to be pushing to see that ...
While he was off bowing to the Saudis, contemplating the Western Wall and visiting other foreign heads of state, President Donald Trump’s White House dropped a doozy of a budget proposal that will hit — surprise, surprise — its own voters the hardest.As The Washington Post reported, ...
Has anyone noticed the moral and organizational collapse of the Democratic Party?While the president’s tweets and his lack of command over the English language earn him nationwide “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” the Democratic Party itself is in a stunning meltdown that threatens to ...
Think of John Kennedy the way he was described by the sage of the Chicago, Carl Sandburg. Kennedy, Sandburg pronounced, “walked with the American people in their great diversity.”Or the way Norman Mailer saw him. Kennedy, Mailer wrote, fulfilled America’s need for a hero and for “a man ...