Season’s retreatings
— December 6, 2017Still another Thanksgiving has passed, and I have done what I always do: nothing. I didn’t overeat, and certainly didn’t travel. Getting together with family and friends…
Tag: DeKalb County Chronicle
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Congress needs visit from 3 ghosts
— December 6, 2017Perhaps we load onto Ebenezer Scrooge more than those stooped shoulders of his can bear. At the end of “A Christmas Carol” we are supposed to — and do — rejoice at Scrooge’s…
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Alabama’s Roy Moore is pure Steve Bannon
— November 29, 2017Roy Moore is the Steve Bannon project in a nutshell. For the former Trump operative, the Alabama Senate candidate’s tattered credibility is a feature, not a bug. If Moore had…
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Mr. President, don’t destroy the symbol of your party
— November 29, 2017Dear Mr. President: You don’t know me, but you are familiar with my kind. I am an elephant. As you know, we elephants are the symbol of your political party, the Republican party….
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There is no ‘without Trump’
— November 22, 2017Ed Gillespie went from potential vindicator of Trumpism to “cuckservative” in the space of a couple of hours. The Virginia Republican, campaigning for governor in a treacherous…
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The albatross that Democrats deserve
— December 6, 2017There are sexual harassers, and then there is John Conyers, the Democrat from Detroit who made his congressional office an adjunct of his libido. The evidence suggests that Conyers…
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The hypocritic oath
— November 29, 2017There’s no such thing as the Hypocritic Oath, but there should be. Translated from the original Pig Latin, it is: “Be sanctimonious if you want, but don’t get caught…
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The male chauvinist pigdom
— November 22, 2017I’ve written facetiously before about a fictional nation, the Male Chauvinist Pigdom. Unfortunately, it’s very real and not funny, unless you get your jollies from the stories…
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