Monthly Archives: September 2018

Oh, Andy! your essay of September 28, 2018  was worth the wait! On the continuing Kavanaugh Nightmare.  Andy assumes the role of the natural successor to Agnes Nixon, the great chronicler of American Life, on Day-Time Television. Andy discards his … Continue reading →

The only ‘Moderate Republican’ that this newspaper could produce, on short notice, is Corporatist Christine Todd Whitman? ‘Whitman is also co-chair of the CASEnergy Coalition, and in 2007, voiced support for a stronger future role of nuclear power in the … Continue reading →

Mr. Luce, from your column of today: Headline The deluge of vitriol swamping American politics Sub-headline: The constitution has become a plaything of two increasingly venomous parties … In practice, the US system is dissolving in vitriol. The constitution was … Continue reading →

This man is Public Enemy 1. We don’t need a set of rules to govern speech on the internet! We already have Constitution & Bill of Rights!!! E.g.: You may not dehumanize anyone based on membership in an identifiable group, … Continue reading →

Don’t look for the usual performances from the sclerotic male Republicans on the Committee on the Judiciary? They will either be very careful with Prof. Ford, or let their obvious misogyny rule their questioning. Are these men so without perceptual … Continue reading →

Andy Divine doesn’t begin his latest essay here, but it is framed by the authorial duo of Haidt and Lukianoff and the title of their book uses an expression, that anyone who lived through the American ’60’s will recognise, as … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh has finally caught up on his reading of the old newspaper columns of Wm. F. Buckley Jr., George F. Will and Tony  Tony Blankley. Buckley the Burkian poser, the  cosseted child of a Texas Oil Millionaire , Will … Continue reading →

Headline: Brett Kavanaugh and the Republicans’ patriarchal bubble Sub-headline: Party’s fight to approve Supreme Court nominee risks further alienation of female voters Quite surprised that Mr. Luce has read the 1970 Feminist classic ‘Patriarchal Attitudes: Women in Society’ by Eva … Continue reading →

The second paragraph of Mr. Luce’s melodramatic  comment on the Kavanaugh nomination and its twists and turns leaves me a bit nonplussed. But justice is the last thing on Washington’s mind. Regardless of what happened, Mr Kavanaugh and Ms Ford … Continue reading →