Category Archives: Commentary

Impeachment Defies Logic — Not Really

Commentary Sometimes you have to push back when you read something in the newspaper — so I did The Palm Beach Post reserves a space on their Opinion page for a column called, “Point of View.” It’s a place for Op-Ed submissions from readers, encouraging “a civil and robust exchange of ideas.” In the FebruaryContinue reading “Impeachment Defies Logic — Not Really”

“Everything Old is New Again”

Commentary But there’s “good” old and “bad” old – which will it be in 2021? (A version of this story will appear in the March 2021 issue of the Valencia Palms monthly magazine, “The Breezes.”) As many readers know, I’m also a regular contributor to my community’s monthly magazine, The Breezes. Each month, contributing writersContinue reading ““Everything Old is New Again””

Is there something about the water at Lake of the Ozarks?

Commentary Missouri Republican Senator Rick Brattin’s bill would allow drivers to run over protesters First there was Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo) with his thumbs-up, fist-pumping, riot-inciting encouragement of the crowd of Trump supporters gathered outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 just before these insurrectionists, after cheering Hawley, stormed and breached the building. But it’sContinue reading “Is there something about the water at Lake of the Ozarks?”

How right-wing TV coped with Biden’s inauguration: a timeline

Commentary Now you know why your right-wing friends say the things they say. MSNBC used to have a tag line: “We watch Fox so you don’t have to.” Now, courtesy of a news website called, Quartz, we don’t have to watch Fox, Newsmax or OANN…because they’re doing it for us. As Quartz reported yesterday, “ForContinue reading “How right-wing TV coped with Biden’s inauguration: a timeline”

Ding, Dong the Witch is De…er, Gone

Commentary As I watched the inauguration of Joseph Biden, as I watched the man who formerly occupied the White House being whisked away, first in Marine One, then in Air Force One, as I saw my “Countdown Clock to Trump’s Last Day” register “0 Days, 0 Hours, 00 Minutes, 00 Seconds, all I could thinkContinue reading “Ding, Dong the Witch is De…er, Gone”

They can’t make this up? Yes, they can!

Commentary Trump’s “1776 Commission” issued its report today. There’s only one word to describe it: “YIKES!” The phrase “You can’t make this up” has been used, perhaps even over-used, during the era of Trump. Today, with my “Countdown to Trump’s Last Day” clock reading 0 days, 23 hours, one minute and 37 seconds, I’ve runContinue reading “They can’t make this up? Yes, they can!”