If you are a Democrat who looked at the title of today’s post and said, “Good, more arguments why Donald Trump and his cultist supporters in Congress have to be defeated next year,” I hope you are sitting down. Because in my counter-intuitive world, the Democrats have become the party of losers. This morning’s entry … Read more
Yesterday’s Washington Post opinion page included a column by Pulitzer Prize winner Eugene Robinson titled, “Trump’s Obama Envy Is Getting Even Worse.” According to Robinson, Trump’s green monster was on full display at this weekend’s G7 meeting. Despite every opportunity to suggest his record eclipsed Obama’s, those damn facts continue to show how the past three years … Read more
This week a retiring trustee at Miami University informed me, at their July meeting, the board of trustees adopted a version of the University of Chicago principles of academic free speech. The email included a list of some of the other colleges and universities which had recently adopted similar guidelines which on the surface make … Read more
One thing I never thought I would ever have to do in America was figure out, by virtue of being born and raised in the Jewish faith, whether I am “uniformed” or “disloyal” or both. But there is no doubt I am one of the people Donald Trump has been referring to this week. Though … Read more
Based on the positive feedback to Sunday’s post about noise versus signals, I thought I would further explore the value of clear signals. The operative word in the previous sentence is “clear.” So much of what we see and hear is often internally inconsistent. Just ask comedian Steven Wright. My teacher told me, “Practice makes … Read more