Someday This Will Be Over. Then What?
I will not write about the election! I will not write about the election! I will not write about the election! I will not write about ...Hey, how ’bout them Dodgers? Can you...
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HELL NO, WE WON'T VOTE!
Too busy to vote? Yeah, I’m talking to you! The guy reading this newspaper. The same guy who’s going to spend 11 hours every Sunday watching football. You! The lady...
Read MoreWith Trump and Hillary "Worst" is a Coin Toss
Another political campaign, another broken promise. But this promise wasn’t broken by one of the candidates. I broke it.I swore I wouldn’t...
Read MoreWaving the wrong flag only makes Trump stronger
Attention Mexican flag-waving, cop-car rocking, bottle-throwing anti-Trump protesters; The Donald thanks you. Donald Trump’s horrible rise to the top of the GOP heap has been zipping along on two separate but co-equal tracks: a.) he’s clearly the front-runner to be the nominee of the Republican Party and b.) He’s guaranteed to lose in November. Not just lose, get slaughtered.Every poll in every demographic in all 50 states indicates Trump will be...
Read MoreWas last week Donald Trump’s Waterloo?
The S.S. Trump, the once unsinkable juggernaut, is taking on water after a series of self-inflicted torpedoes that have made the most unlikely presidential front-runner a little less likely.If Donald Trump never gets to “make America great again”, the week ending the day after April Fool’s Day will be the one historians point to as his Waterloo.Once again the chattering class claims Trump has “gone too far.” I’m not so sure. He’s...
Read MoreThe Party’s over, no debate about it
I told myself I wasn’t going to look. But like a gruesome six-car pileup on the 405 when it finally came time for last week’s GOP debate in Houston, I peeked.At first it was just a quick glance. Then I stared, transfixed and horrified that one of those characters could actually be our next president. The herd has been thinned from the early days of the campaign when there were more candidates than voters. Undoubtedly the lineup will be trimmed again after 11...
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