I went to a convent school, and we said the pledge “one nation, under God indivisible, with liberty....” Note the missing comma, which made it commentary on the nature of the Trinity rather than the nature of the nation. I like to think that this was instituted by some radical madame who was offended at having God…

I make annual pilgrimages into the red states, where I meet up with huntin’ people from all over the country. I note that five years ago, it was all about self defense (“you come from the city, what would you do when somebody is threatening you?” “Call a cab?”), but THIS year is was all about “but guns are so much…

Wanted to delete this. His father was in jail at the time.

Bowlegs - poor early childhood nutrition? Perhaps his excesses are compensation for an impoverished, nay desperate beginning; if he wasn’t poor, he might have been dreadfully neglected by mother or nanny or both. Who are we to say, is he more to be pitied than to be censured? Unloved and unlovely, forever shaped by a…

I am really bothered by the fact that, in addition to curtailing the right to free speech (“we own you, so you will think what we tell you to”), there’s that whole objection to taking precautions against traumatic brain injury that Trump got into. (“We own you, you will do and think what we tell you to and by the way,…

What are these boxes going to do for you if you think somebody might be following you home? Will they spot you a coffee regular and a buttered roll and let you pay them when you come back from work? How DARE they. Jerks.

I was raised to believe that it took SOME NERVE to apply the term “lady” to a woman, as it implied that you had the right to determine her status in some way, which you don’t. This was back in the fifties, so my dear mother was not some new-fangled feminist, or perhaps she and all her friends and family were.

Op eds can and should be rebutted, I recommend taking a look at the comments on the same page the sales pitch was published on line. Let this fool make his pitch in public instead of over a burnt steak at his sister’s country club, and we can object to it, loudly.

I try my best not to be boroughist, but he comes from Queens, he’s not a New Yorker. Don’t let him pretend otherwise.

Well, I don’t ordinarily make personal remarks, but how successful a hedge-fund manager is he really, with THAT nose job? Right from the Ivanka line.

If whites feel what it is like to be forgotten, to not feel entitled to value in their humanity, then perhaps they will actually fight or care for someone other than themselves. - Actually, no, they elect Trump.

And you wonder why we’ve got DeVos in there to complete the dismantling of American public education? We need trial by jury, and we need to ensure that our people are given the tools they need to participate through a robust public education system. Dammit.

Yeah, love hangover. They’re the best.

1. she uses D for T and whistles her esses. She needs to get back to that speech coach, I wonder if it’s an over-correction of an outer-boroughs accent or just her teeth.

2. I am very interested that she’s all about those 6 millions jobs and heading everybody off to a trade school where they can learn to work for…

Oh, he was a pariah before, too! Of course, this is probably what brought it on.

American public education has been gutted specifically in order to achieve this exact effect. Wait until DeVos is done with it.

Trump is the living embodiment of “I don’t need to do my homework because I can pay somebody to write a B paper for me.” I am tempted to say that actual life doesn’t work that way, and that presidents are supposed to do their homework, but clearly not. Somehow it is not acceptable to hold people accountable for being…

It’s the whole coherent sentence, more than one at a time, thing. It’s been a very long time for me!

Exactly! I know he’s smarter than that, so I am guessing that the party put the screws on him and demanded this. He did it badly to assuage his conscience, but the effect, because people don’t really listen, is to have the last question be the one that confirms the message that it’s unfair to Trump. I want to know…

Did you stop and watch that campaign video? It was downright moving. There’s a lot of coded stuff in there, but balanced by a lot of hand in hand regardless of race or creed, too many people in jail because they are poor, etc. It was really, really good, and he was able to speak it clearly with a choke in his voice…