To Hell With Your GDP

Yeah, be sure and enjoy your “GDP.” I look around and what I see are empty storefronts, rusty old cars (including my own), payday loan sharks and tattoo parlors staffed by people who have part-time jobs without benefits.

Poor, Poor Pitiful Trump

Yes, Trump voters are the salt of the earth, in the "Blazing Saddles" sense of the term.

I Know Just How He Feels

A  New Yorker cartoon by Joe Dator

Why the Republican Party Will Fall

This is the reason why Trump and the GOP must finally crash and burn. The only remaining question that matters is whether they'll take all of us with them.

Uninterested in Trump

You know, Donald Trump is finally just a pitifully damaged human being, nothing more. The fact that so much of his damage is self-inflicted merely makes his situation —and now, by extension, ours — that much more tragic and stupid.

Trump has never interested me, and he still doesn’t. What interests me very much is finding out exactly how a purportedly democratic political system erodes to the point of putting something like Trump in charge.

I Don't Know Whether to Laugh Or Cry...

Please Don't Bully the Nazis!