Month: July 2015

Lead With Your Chin, Rick Perry

I guess Rick Perry wants to get called ‘dumb‘ again or have Donald Trump mention that Perry has already spent two million bucks fighting a criminal indictment: “[Trump] offers a barking carnival act that can be best...

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Q Poll and Flubbing 2014

Here’s the latest Quinnipiac poll.  Colorado, Iowa, and Virginia voters on the 2016 Presidential race.  It’s so early in the election cycle that it could be meaningless.  Or  detecting a whiff of...

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Mustachioed Soothsaying Simpleton

It’s true that Tom Friedman never has to say he is sorry and he can get an interview with the president almost as easily as he can with his cab driver. You can almost say the same for David Brooks. Although I’m not...

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Jeb Bush Needs the Cliff Clavin Vote

Depending on your age, John Ratzenberger is either the actor who played the beloved character Cliff Clavin on Cheers or some guy you saw at a Tea Party rally on Fox News bellowing about socialism. Sometimes with these actors,...

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Pope Francis. Pins Trump.

I know that Pope Francis was not directly referring to Donald Trump when he said the following words, and I am certainly not a Catholic anymore nor have I been for over 50 years. But this passage from his unscripted speech to...

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