Of course, you thought we had wrung all the stupid out of the banking system back in 2009 following the banking meltdown and the bailout you and I paid for. We passed Dodd-Frank to prevent a repeat performance. We pointed fingers. We threatened prison terms. And nobody was held accountable. Glass-Steagall had been designed to… [read more]
I’ve been worrying about politically driven domestic violence for a long time. We have shootings every day and, of course, there was a full-on insurrection on January 6, 2021, where people were badly wounded, some died that day and others died on subsequent days. Many continue to carry scars and debilitating injuries from that attack…. [read more]
An Open Letter to Christian Haters Did you go to Sunday School when you were a kid? Or at least attend a church service now and then? Here’s what you did with that. They told you the stories and the lessons from long ago, like to be kind to strangers. They said to be generous… [read more]
Caution: Those sensitive to nasty words Mom told you not to say should skip to the second section of this post. Richard Nixon couldn’t remember sending his goon squad to break into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at The Watergate to steal opposition documents. Later he couldn’t remember his mob boss style cover up of… [read more]
Guns After I had delivered a leadership workshop to an executive group we went to lunch at an upscale suburban restaurant not far from the meeting venue. I sat across a small table from a guy who had a pistol in a holster clipped to his belt. I’m not a gun guy and I felt… [read more]
Caution: The first section of this post contains infectious snark. It is contraindicated for those not yet vaccinated against the current virulent right wing strains of BS-2022 and BS-2023. Note that constitutional virologists are predicting an exceptionally deadly strain next year. Subscribe here (⇒⇓) to stay up to date on this threat. There has been… [read more]
Final Comments of President Biden’s State of the Union Address, February 7, 2023 “And finally, to my Republican partners I say – and this is from the heart – no joke: cut the crap. “Stop the brinkmanship over the debt ceiling. Not even you are dumb enough to pull that stupid default stunt again. I… [read more]
What do you think about the Framers, the guys who hammered out the Constitution in a locked room with windows nailed shut and, obviously, no air conditioning, this over the course of the very hot Philadelphia summer of 1787? Are they the forebears of all national bedrock, the seers with the ability to establish the… [read more]
Outside the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives . Jones: Mr. Speaker, Cynthia Jones here – Laughing Stock News. We cover the Congress. You know about the blistering list of lies George Santos told in order to get elected in New York’s 3rd congressional district. You’ve been asked about that repeatedly and… [read more]
Struggling to Understand New York Times Senior Opinion Staff Editor Alexandra Sifferlin wrote a piece on Monday triggered by the Covid-19 death of sports journalist Grant Wahl while covering the World Cup in Qatar. Her story was not about his death. It was about the “anti-vaxxers [who] were quick to blame his death on the… [read more]
