I remember being at a sheepdog trial in Scotland years ago, when one of the farmers for some reason panicked as his young dog began its routine. The man fired out five or six commands in a single frantic burst, “Come by, walk up, away now, that’ll do, come to me now!” The good little dog tried to obey all the commands…

It must be reassuring for old Rupert to know that he owns Donald and, by extension, the US of A, which—even though it is in decline—is still a major world power (we’re sort of at the point the Brits were at a century ago, only with nukes).

Potential Democratic candidates for president should,right now, be drawing up lists of people to fire on Day One (on the off chance the Democrats can fend off the dark money funded Republican electoral fraud machine and win the next election). Make sure the computer where the lists are stored can’t be hacked by Julian…

The thing I’m struck by again and again is the fact that Fitzgerald got it sort of wrong: the rich are not different from you and me, assuming that we’re vicious, cold-hearted, manipulative, narcissistic jerks who like to throw our weight around.

It’s not just the ACA. They’re going for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the VA too. They are going to take us to dark and awful places and do terrible damage—perhaps irreparable damage—in the process.

The reactionary right has a long tradition of using liberal principles and institutions to create access for themselves—and then turning around and slamming the door on everybody else. They’ve done this with everything from their political takeover of legislatures across the country, to the little games they play with…

Germaine Greer (who got a lot wrong, but also got a lot right) once said, “Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.”

That’s very kind of you. Sure, share away, the words are free.

Your money would be safe. Alas.

People forget. People have no institutional memory, no inborn sense of history. The people who are voting away their own affordable care, Social Security and Medicare right now by voting in Republicans, for instance, have no direct experience of the world as it was before the safety net: no memory of old people dying…

As the old saying goes, Everybody wants to get to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Time after time, Democrats have counted on Republicans crashing and burning:and time after time after time, they have been stunned and horrified by the sight of Republicans Resurgent, rising from the ashes like the mythical phoenix, only pasty-white, and grinning unpleasantly.

Terrific, amazing actress but, by all accounts, a horrible woman.

“In court, Superior Court Judge William McClain called the Douglasville Police Department’s conduct [refusing to arrest the white mob for death threats and brandishing weapons] “inexplicable” and “a very bad mistake.”

Yeah, people have noticed since the beginning of the Donald Regime the awful slide of historical perspective:

Ah yes! But it’s Sheridan Road right there where the ghost crosses—doesn’t turn into the Drive until a little further along.

If somebody stood up and praised America for conservative values like, oh, I don’t know, rugged individualism, or boundless opportunity, or whatever, I’m sure there would be cheers, although perhaps not enough to please you.

I grew up just outside Chicago. On the edge of town there was a huge old Catholic cemetery, set right across from the lake. People snuck in there at night (I assume they still do). It was a shadowy, lovely, and mysterious place where you found yourself halfway believing in ghosts even if you knew better.

The fact is, he’s a horrid public speaker with no wit, no natural sense of timing, no self-awareness, none of the comic competences that allowed even George W to get up there and make an amiable fool of himself without losing his appearance of decorum, or whatever it is a president is supposed to display in these…

It looks like revulsion rather than fear.