I'll confess here at the outset: my tolerance for Donald Trump and all of his accompanying cruel whimsy has reached an all new low. Chiefly, the shit flinging, without any real accountability for it, is overloading my logic circuits to the point of seizing up -- to the point ...read more
Although the Brett Kavanaugh hearings will reopen on Monday, with Doctor Christine Blasey Ford testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the White House still refuses to ask the FBI to investigate her allegations of sexual assault and attempted rape, much to the ...read more
This weekend, Stanford Professor Christine Blasey Ford revealed that at 15, she was sexually assaulted by a then-17-year-old Brett Kavanaugh, who held her down and covered her mouth when she tried to scream. If there was ever a moment to end this farce of a hearing and yank his ...read more
August politics are like holiday politics. No one's really paying much attention so the "silly season" takes over. Today, for example, we're talking about Omarosa's tapes and Donald Trump's worsening dementia. About the latter, apparently during an event for Vietnam veterans in ...read more
I’ve been alive for 28 years and I can barely remember a time before Dianne Feinstein was my Senator in California. Elected in 1992, she is on her way to being re-elected for her fourth full term this fall. Prior to that, as Mayor of San Francisco, she led the city through one of ...read more