Putting the junk in junkets
— October 4, 2017If by some gastronomic quirk you wanted to fry an egg on the sidewalk, you could. It was that hot. The suffocating heat was just bad luck for the garbage man. He had his job to do….
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The spreading swamp
— September 27, 2017It shouldn’t be necessary to say this, but apparently it is: You can’t drain the Washington “swamp” by dumping human waste all over it. That only makes the swamp more of a cesspool,…
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‘Handmaid’s Tale’ lunacy
— September 27, 2017Donald Trump, much to his chagrin, never won an Emmy for “The Apprentice,” but he can now take indirect credit for a clutch of the awards. The Hulu series “The Handmaid’s Tale”…
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NFL boycott
— September 20, 2017I did it! I made it through Sunday without watching an NFL game! Perhaps I didn’t mention it, but I’ve decided to boycott the National Football League. It’s not an…
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Trump gets DACA right
— September 13, 2017Even in our divided politics, it should be a matter of consensus that the president of the United States can’t write laws on his own. That’s what President Barack Obama…
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Feeling better starts with telling the truth
— September 27, 2017A philosophy professor told us in class that if humans really were rational, humans wouldn’t smoke. He said this while exhaling a lung full of smoke from a Camel. I’ve acted…
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Turn off the TV, Mr. President
— September 20, 2017Donald Trump is the first president in U.S. history to have been baited into undermining his own negotiating position by negative TV coverage. Less than 12 hours after Attorney General…
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Changing faces on our currency not an easy task
— September 20, 2017It’s too bad James Buchanan, or Calvin Coolidge, or Richard Nixon don’t grace the face of our currency. Then it would be easy to bump one of them and replace him with Harriet Tubman….
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