Happy New Year!
This humble spirit has been hovering about the earth for well over 150 years now and I can hardly recall a grimmer holiday season or a glummer prognosis for the new year, either here in America or around the globe. In preparation for what is to come, however, I thought it might prove instructive to […]
Happy Genocide!
What a grim holiday season this has turned out to be. Talk about the Grinch who stole Christmas! There are more wars going on around the planet than we’ve had in years and, with the exception of Donald Trump’s impending dictatorship looming over us, hardly anything has gotten more attention than the subject of “genocide”—how […]
“Bidenomics” Going Down with the Ship
The White House seems determined to make “Bidenomics” the center of the president’s 2024 presidential campaign, and given how things stand (Trump and Biden in a statistical tie, with Trump ahead in most swing states), that’s a really scary proposition for the Democrats—and the country! Bidenomics, including the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment […]
Trump Gets His Comeuppance
Last week, Yusef Salaam, one of the “Central Park Five” who were wrongly convicted for the 1989 rape and beating of a white jogger in Central Park, won a seat on the New York City Council representing a central Harlem district. (Congratulations, Yusef!) Although his conviction was eventually overturned based on DNA evidence, as were those […]
Mike Johnson
(Speaker of the Christian Right)
It turns out that Mike Johnson, the new House Speaker, is no less a far-right MAGA bomb thrower than Jim Jordan, only he’s quiet and polite, and thus not as loathed by his House colleagues. First on the list of his impressive MAGA credentials, he took a leading role in trying to overturn the 2020 […]
It’s All About Him
Judging from how he talks (and tweets!), it’s clear that Donald Trump thinks he’s still President of the United States, or maybe a co-president with Joe Biden, one who has his own foreign policy, especially when it comes to the current crisis in Israel. He doesn’t seem to understand that he’s just an unemployed old […]
Barbarians at the Capitol Fence
When retiring Army General Mark Milley referred to Donald Trump as a “Wannabe dictator” in response to the former president suggesting he might deserve execution for treason, The Wall Street Journal called it a “sad reminder that Mr. Trump often provokes others into breaking their own institutional norms.” Yeah, it’s sad alright! Trump and his […]
All Becomes Clear
As Agatha Christie’s famous fictional detective, Hercule Poirot, liked to say, “in time, all will become clear.” Well, in case we still had any doubts, lately quite a bit has become clear. What could be more obvious than why Russian president Vladimir Putin is defending his old buddy, Donald Trump, and claiming the former president’s […]
Trump’s GOP Challengers are a Joke!
It’s now clear that Republican voters will not give up on their hero, Donald Trump, under any circumstances, no matter how vile his behavior, no matter how many times he is indicted. The worse it gets, the more loyal they become. Republicans only represent about a quarter of the electorate, but the fact that the […]
Throwing Sh*t at the Wall
The 98-page Georgia indictment against Donald Trump and his eighteen co-conspirators—no less worth the read than the 45-page January 6th indictment brought by federal prosecutor Jack Smith—contains 41 counts, of which Trump is accused of the following 13: If you’re like this humble spirit, you’re not sure whether to be incredulous that a former President […]
A Conspiracy to Defraud America
How fitting that the first of four charges included in the January 6 indictment against Donald Trump be “Conspiracy to Defraud the United States Government.” The man has been defrauding the entire world for most of his life—business associates, contractors, lawyers, you name it. He’s the ultimate con-artist and grifter; his entire presidency and political […]
A New Crop of Republican Lackies
Yeah, there’s no question we need to take America back! Among Trump’s many challengers for the Republican presidential nomination are numerous fresh faces, but upon closer inspection they all support the interests of the Republican’s aging, predominantly white “base.” None of them address issues important to the majority of young voters, and make no mistake, […]
I’m Being Indicted for You
Former President Trump tells more lies than there are stars in heaven, but he’s once again outdoing himself when it comes to explaining why he stored classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. This humble spirit’s personal favorite is that he declassified them merely by thinking about it (talk about illusions of omnipotence!), but as usual, Trump has […]
The Dustbin of History
The details of Donald Trump’s indictment for mishandling classified documents won’t be fully known until the trial, but we do know the former president is once again misbehaving himself, big time—including ugly personal attacks on Jack Smith, the federal prosecutor in charge of the case, as well as encouraging his supporters to commit acts of […]
A House Divided Risks Default
It’s possible the country has avoided the debt ceiling crisis once again, but the disturbing episode has served as another reminder that ours is a terribly divided, polarized nation. I rarely agreed with the late Rush Limbaugh, but he was certainly correct to question whether America can survive its current challenges, with (at least!) two […]
Haves and Have Nots
Jordan Neely, a homeless young Black man apparently suffering from mental illness, was put in a chokehold and killed by Daniel Penny, a white 24-year-old ex-marine. So, what do you know, we have yet another Black man with the life choked out of him, only this time by an ex-marine rather than the police, just […]
You Are What You Eat!
I acknowledge that Tucker Carlson—recently fired from Fox “News” and about to surface only God knows where—no doubt has many fans who are well-educated and living in comfortable economic circumstances (the old stereotype of upper middle class Republican voters). And yet it’s hard not to picture his viewers as the worst MAGA caricatures: uneducated, low […]
MAGA Republicans vs. the Majority
The MAGA Republicans continue to assault the will of the majority, along with the rule of law, whenever the opportunity presents itself. Tennessee’s Republican state legislature voted to expel two Black Democratic members for protesting on the statehouse floor for tougher gun laws. Then, as if it would go unnoticed if he didn’t talk about […]
MAGAs Can’t Handle the Truth
MAGAs not only don’t care if they’re blatantly lied to (e.g., Trump, Fox “News,” QAnon conspiracy theories), they WANT to be lied to and even demand it. There are numerous reasons for this: And the list goes on; I’m sure you can think of plenty more for yourself. But, no matter, lies sooth them and […]
Liars of a Feather
Is this humble spirit the only one who sees the disturbing similarities between Alex Murdaugh and Donald Trump? Never mind their peculiarly similar hair, they’re both frauds, charlatans, and conmen who got away with masquerading behind an impressive facade. Above all they’re narcissists and pathological liars. They’ve lost track of what the truth is, even […]