Reading time – 1:01; Viewing time – 2:41 . . . Uh-oh. Some snark follows. Sensitive readers should squint. What candidates say matters. And to paraphrase Barney Frank, you want your next president to be someone who spends the majority of his/her time on this planet. Well, here’s how Politifact scored the candidates’ claims made… [read more]
Insidious
Reading time – 1:49 plus 44 seconds for the Bonus Section; Viewing time – 2:31 . . . Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and he penned a most interesting essay in the New York Times entitled How a Russian Fascist Is Meddling in America’s Election. It is a worthwhile read… [read more]
Not About You Know Who
Reading time – 1:23; Viewing time – 3:01 . . . There is no perfect candidate. There never has been. There never will be. So, here’s a Dr. Phil prescription for your candidate ennui: Get over it. On the one hand, Hillary has very real flaws. On the other hand, Hillary’s list of flaws has… [read more]
Honestly, They Aren’t Idiots
Reading time – 51 seconds; Viewing time – 1:47 . . . A recent Vox essay dug into Donald Trump’s – let’s call it “odd” – speaking style of non-sequiturs, parentheticals, baselessness and departures from any reality common to this planet. Quite often it’s impossible to discern his message from the words used and you… [read more]
Trump Debate Bingo
Reading time – 87 seconds; Viewing time – 2:42 . . . In a snappy article in the New York Times cleverly entitled, A Week of Whoppers From Donald Trump, authors Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns list a single week’s “. . . blizzard of [Trump’s] falsehoods, exaggerations and outright lies . . .” and… [read more]
About Those Deplorables
Reading time – 1:37 seconds; Viewing time – 2:56 . . . I instantly cringed when I heard Hillary say, “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” There is a difference between the act (saying something deplorable) and the… [read more]
North Carolina
Reading time – 39 seconds; Viewing time – 1:36 . . . I saw Jennifer Roberts, the mayor of Charlotte, NC interviewed by Brian Williams a couple of nights ago and yesterday I found her leading a press conference. She thanked the local police (who conveniently did not have body cameras turned on when they… [read more]
This Spaceship Earth
Reading time – 1:29; Viewing time – 2:34 . . . SPECIAL TIME-SENSITIVE EDITION Everybody knows that climate warming is a hoax perpetrated by googly-eye tree-huggers bent on destroying our capitalist way of life. Everybody except nearly every climate scientist on the planet. And this guy. Click through and scroll slowly all the way to… [read more]
Email Exchange With a (gasp!) Republican
Reading time – A while . . . A while back my pal Dan Wallace and I had an email exchange and it occurred to me that you might like a peek inside the back-and-forth with a slightly right of center Republican and bona fide smart guy. DW Jack, Read to the bottom of the… [read more]
The Lesson
Reading time – 54 seconds; Viewing time – 1:54 . . . I fly a lot and often think about the people on those four airplanes on that awful day, September 11, 2001. Most often I think about those on United Flight #93. There had been victims of terrorists before then, like those on the… [read more]
