I read that the Republicans will control 37 of 50 statehouses come January (13 remain majority Democratic). Much scarier than 30 of 50.

“After the meeting, Trump even indicated he would start taking Obama’s advice, saying, ‘I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel’—a major turnaround for a man who once called Obama ‘the most ignorant president in history.’”

Sadly, I agree. These guys aren’t, in the end, interested in principles or ideals, they are interested in winning. Trump won. He owns them all now. The ones who can’t stomach taking Trump’s orders will quit (or will be pressured into retiring).

The major news media (TV and cable news, major newspapers) is hopelessly corrupted by the commercial drive toward ratings over all else. By this, I don’t mean that individual reporters — or even individual news organizations — are corrupt (i.e., taking payoffs or covertly supporting one side over the other). I mean…

Trump is literally talking down to her. Wow!

I agree that the problem is not limited to access to guns. As the gun lobby is fond of pointing out, it’s important to deal with widespread untreated and undertreated mental illness, and for certain domestic and foreign terrorism are problems that will continue to need to be addressed. So let’s deal with all three…

Y’know, lots of people say things like “if it wasn’t a gun that killed these people, it would have been something else.” Really? I have trouble believing that if the same guy entered Pulse with a knife, he could have killed 49 people before being stopped. Even with a car (assuming he could have gotten it into the…

Here’s a fun thing to try: Google “California black male rape mugshot”. See how many images come up. I just did it and found at least a dozen. I guess that sometimes those pictures are not considered to fall within the investigative exception to the open records law.

Your complaint about Captain America: Civil War is that “no one of importance dies ... and someone should have.” Don’t take this the wrong way, but are you a psychopath?

Boy, if I were her, I would take a few weeks off first. She’s going to need the rest to prepare for all that fighting she is planning to do.

I am white, and I understand that our experiences are, in many ways, significantly different. But I also dislike and recoil from movies about slavery because I don’t want to sit and watch Black actors playing roles in which their characters are brutalized on-screen. I don’t think it is about my ignorance or racism, as…

Well, I agree, but that is kind of the point of the piece: the author had a sex act performed upon her that she didn’t want performed and didn’t consent to being performed. That’s why I think it is rape, though probably not legally actionable.

I get your point, but I also think it’s possible to draw a distinction between “sexual assault” as a penal charge upon which a perpetrator may be criminally convicted, and “rape” as a violation of the boundaries of the person upon whom the sex was performed. (Although there are penal laws that define “rape” as a…

I’d just like to point out that the customer in the story did not reject the gluten-free toast because it had been made in a toaster that was also used for regular toast. The first time she raised the issue, she was informed before she ate that the toast was made in a toaster used for regular bread, and she ate that…

When I saw the headline, I thought, “c’mon, you’re just looking for a different way to describe the usual hostile customers.” Then I read the column.