A draft article of impeachment to remove Trump for inciting insurrection is being circulated among members of Congress. It is relatively brief, and may change before it reaches the House floor. But the full draft text can be read here. Click to access articles-of-impeachment-incitement-of-insurrection.pdf
If you think we’re almost done with Twenty Twenty, think again. With almost a week yet to run, already, “2020-Lit” is an established journalistic genre, and surely we’ll soon be inundated with books, novels, poetry, songs, paintings movies & miniseries about it. Count on it. Newspapers are leading the way, and their pundits are already … Continue reading “How Many Is One Egg Roll?” The Autopsies of 2020 Begin
Garry Trudeau still has it, 50+ years on . . . . His mastery leaves me with nothing more to add but a bow to greatness.
There’s not much left on my personal bucket list. That’s especially true when the dreamiest, yet most implausible items (e. g., hitting a homer against baseball’s Evil Empire in Yankee Stadium) are subtracted. But one hope, after so many decades, still dances tantalizingly on my horizon: living to see a king of England named after … Continue reading For My King Chuck Hopes, “The Crown” Is A Royal Pain
One of the advantages of age is finding old jokes one has forgotten about, so they’re new again. Like these Quaker gems that just turned up: The Clerk had just worked through an extended monthly business meeting, where unified decisions were hard to come by. After a long silent pause, she glanced down at the … Continue reading Transitional Quaker humor: Some New Queries