Wed, 10 August 2016
The cynical among us may regard the sudden surge of Republican office holders away from Donald Trump as rats deserting the ship. There is an alternate view. |
Wed, 3 August 2016
The father of a fallen soldier asks whether Donald Trump has even read the Constitution. Actually, the Constitution guarantees that right. And it gives the rest of us the right to call Mr. Trump a godawful jerk.
Direct download: Mr._Trumps_Right_to_Attack.mp3
Category:Politics and Bigotry -- posted at: 11:57pm EDT |
Wed, 27 July 2016
I don't yet know much about Senator Tim Kaine. For most of us the ideological spectrum is only some dot on a chart.
Direct download: Kaine_Lifts_the_Curtain.mp3
Category:Policy, Political News -- posted at: 11:40pm EDT |
Wed, 20 July 2016
If Hillary Clinton is innocent of wrongdoing, you have to wonder why there is so much scandal. Well, gather round.
Direct download: Haircuts_and_Christmas_Cards_-_an_Introduction_to_Scandal.mp3
Category:Political News -- posted at: 10:41pm EDT |
Wed, 13 July 2016
What must we do when society's weakest links can inflict deadly damage, and a bad shooting can involve a good cop? We become more secure when those who protect us are given measured, tested, state-of-the-art strategies. We become less vulnerable when we restrict the ability to inflict widespread violent force to those whom we can trust. |
Wed, 6 July 2016
Historical parallels are not always historical repetition. Sometimes they are coincidence. Sometimes parallels rhyme. I see more than a single parallel with the recent house sit-in to keep American manufacturers from selling weapons to ISIS.
Direct download: Gun_Laws_-_We_will_not_tolerate_Disruption.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:34pm EDT |
Wed, 29 June 2016
The Republican Party plays the drowning Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet, "as one incapable of her own distress." The Party is in a death spiral. Like a moth, it circles the flame, helpless, unable to stop itself.
Direct download: Pre-autopsy__Why_the_Republican_Party_is_Crashing.mp3
Category:Political News -- posted at: 8:07pm EDT |
Wed, 22 June 2016
He is not winning in any way you or I might think possible. But, by his own inner light, he is winning none-the-less.
Direct download: The_Art_of_the_Election__How_Trump_is_Winning.mp3
Category:Political News -- posted at: 10:50pm EDT |
Wed, 15 June 2016
Donald Trump describes himself as he sees himself. He is the most successful businessman, the smartest graduate, the toughest candidate, the best thing that ever happened to evangelicals, the most attractive to women. He is a candidate of superlatives. He believes that makes him a superlative candidate. It doesn't. |
Wed, 8 June 2016
His aggressive approach, traveling personally into the very heart of criminal territory, was becoming too effective. The order came directly from the crime lords. Kill the chief of United States Narcotics Enforcement. Like some comic book superhero, he went underground, surfacing only to surprise, battle, and bring down those drug cartels. |