This is Who We Are
America is Screwed … It’s hard to believe … or maybe not so hard to believe. There are enough stupid
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Republican Party
Go After Trump and the MAGA Cult, not Joe Biden
“Mr. President Biden! For the sake of Donald J. Trump and the MAGA Republican Party! Step aside! Resign! Let someone
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Game Changer? I mean, c’mon
Lately I’ve noticed two terms, short, two-word phrases that are uttered in nearly every conversation on television. Starting a sentence
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Letters To Jim, February 2024: What is a Woman and Who is Winning the Culture Wars?
February may be a short month, but there is no shortage of mail to respond to, so let’s get right
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Becoming a Swifty All Over Again
The rabid right wing echo chamber did something remarkable. Because they went ape shit over Taylor Swift getting so many
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Getting Older and Closer to Another Election
A couple notable events occurred in my life recently. #1: I completed another trip around the sun with relatively few
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Taking Note of a Few Things: The Coaches, Dogs, and more Complaints Edition
In less than one day, the sports world saw the end of three great football coaches. Pete Carroll of the
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Missing the Point: Our National Debt
As of this writing, the national debt of the United States – money our country has borrowed to cover expenses
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January Letters to Jim: 2024 elections, Trump (of course), Chico and New Year’s Hangovers
If you are reading this, congratulations for surviving 2023 and welcome to another new year. I don’t usually make a
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Missing the Point: Who do Republicans think they’re kidding with immigration?
Happy New Year, everybody. “Thoughtless bigots, politically self-centered officeholders stoking and playing to the fears of otherwise well-meaning Americans who
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