The forecast for Washington DC on Saturday June 14 is typical: hot, muggy, and with maybe a passing thunderstorm. The expected “realfeel” is pegged at 97 degrees, Fahrenheit, with high humidity. Sweltering, in sum. I lived near D. C. For a long time, before global warming was a thing. Late spring and summer were the … Continue reading Trump’s June 14 Military “Parade” Will Be “Burning Man On the Potomac”
This “billboard” is meant to be the first of a series in the runup to the June 14 “NO KINGS” protests. The strategy of the series is to widen the gap between Trump-Hegseth (TH) and many troops, and remind them (and others watching) that their oath is to defund the Constitution (not a wannabe monarch). … Continue reading For June 14: Don’t Miss This Big Chance to Find Allies Among the Troops (We Need Them.)
With Atheists Like Him, Who Needs Believers? A Remarkably Contemporary Interview (from 1970) with I. F. Stone OF ALL the idols in my personal pantheon, Isidore Feinstein Stone (1907-1989), proprietor of I. F. Stone’s Weekly, is one of the most durable. Rock musicians, novelists, even theologians who once had a place in my shrine have … Continue reading My Best Interview Ever: With I. F. Stone
There were many snarky media cracks made about president Trump’s very weird West Point commencement address on May 24th. It was definitely up there on the crowded DJT Weirdness scale: a long shaggy dog story about an unhappy real estate developer and his unhappy trophy wife, a plop of freshly made up steaming malarkey about … Continue reading Did a West Point General Troll Trump Before His Weird Commencement Address?? (My Answer: Yes!)
2025 has been a tough year for small colleges in the Carolinas. Two have closed, a third is in what looks like death throes, and then there’s a fourth on the brink, which we’ll get to in a minute. Down and out are St. Andrews, in Laurinburg, a hundred miles southwest of Raleigh in Scotland … Continue reading Guilford College: On the Brink