Little Bo-Peep
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Little Bo-Peep was terribly peeved to shoot all her sheep in one go. But she knew there were more in El Salvador. A happy chiquita was she. Continue reading
One Hard-Boiled Egg
Some eggs don’t crack when they fall and don’t require all the king’s horses and all the king’s men to do anything. Continue reading
Democracy On the Blink
Democracy is getting devoured, and we don’t know how to stop it. We did everything we were supposed to do – vote, write letters, protest – but nothing worked. So what do we do now? Throw spitballs? Continue reading
Putting the Starch Back in the DOJ
Despite being groomed and lacquered, licked and spruced to the last hair, the elite DOJ audience was all attention. They weren’t about to miss a single word of President Donald J. Trump’s pep talk. And from what he had to say, boy, did they need it. Continue reading
The Gay Executive
There were two phone sets on President Donald Trump’s Residue Desk, which mildly troubled him when he wasn’t busy running the country. And he wasn’t busy running the country, because he didn’t know what to do, because the acting assistant of some project office or other hadn’t shown up. Continue reading
The Chubby Karateka
On Friday, we saw Zelensky take a verbal lambasting such as never before witnessed between heads of state. The scuffle, however, did not disgrace the Ukrainian president . . . Continue reading
The Shape of Testosterone
Sue and Sandy had a talk about why they can’t sleep. It had nothing to do with their homes or their families or their jobs or even the price of eggs. It had to do with a football. Continue reading
The DNA of Liberty
From time to time, it seems our intangible rights are getting squeezed. But as our understanding of the human experience deepens, a mature government should broaden its protections of citizen rights, not straiten them. Continue reading
The Abdication
There was a little revolution in Washington D.C., but there was nothing to report because when the little creatures were crushed underfoot they didn’t even squirm. Continue reading
Orbán’s Spittoon
In addressing European leaders at the Munich Security Council, VP JD Vance folded in a deep layer of misinformation: It was not Orbán or Project 2025 or Trump or Vance who questioned the worthiness of the U.S.-European alliance, he explained, but the American people themselves. Continue reading