Next in Line
“Aaaaaaaaaaaahhh, aa, aa, aa, yiiiiii, ooooowww, yiiiiiiii, aaaaaaahhhhhh.” The high decibel scream resonated through the White House at three in the morning, bringing the Secret Service, medical personnel, and family...
What Will It Take?
There’s spin, there’s spin taken to the nth degree, and then there’s this: According to Erin Perrine, the President’s Director of Communications, the fact that Donald Trump contracted COVID-19 and,...
What happened After Trump Tested Positive
It might have happened this way: At the White House “The old man’s not looking very good,” noted the president’s physician Sean Conley. “Fever, lots of trouble breathing. Let’s get...
Two Septuagenarians Arrested (or Should have Been) for Public Brawl
To paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield, “I went to a fight the other night, and a debate broke out.” Yes, an all-out brawl took place on the campus of Case Western Reserve...
A Taxing Experience
The story of Donald Trump’s taxes, released by the NY Times, tells a pretty straightforward story: The man is a cheat, a fraud, a failed businessman whose lawyers went to...
Debate Prep Chez Biden & Trump
At the Biden Camp “So Joe, here are the fact sheets. If you want to be prepared for the debate Tues night, it’s very important that you do some serious...
Trump Fatigue
Drained. Fatigued. Disgusted. I’m all Trumped out. Neighbors who moved into a house down the street a year or two ago used to fly a MAGA flag by their front...
Sox, Celts, Pats: Mixed Reviews, Mixed Expectations
During an apparent lull in the Trump-storm (if precedent is any guide, it won’t be for long), let me toss in my two cents on the Boston sports scene. I...
Voting By Mail: Am I Missing Something???
Maybe I’m just missing the point—it wouldn’t be the first time, it wouldn’t be the last. But I just don’t get it when people talk about concerns that the US...
Watching the RNC: It Takes a Strong Stomach
I told myself that if I were going to go wire-to-wire with the Democratic National Convention, I would force myself to watch most or all of the Republican National Convention....