Breaking News: Carlson Gets Tucked

As Beltane arrives here in the Washington suburbs, the honeysuckle and feral azaleas bloom and the deer in my back yard retreat into the protective, enveloping Virginia woods to drop their fawns, forsaking the sugar beets and carrots I have the lawn service put out for them to nibble. Meanwhile, everyone in America wonders if… Continue reading Breaking News: Carlson Gets Tucked

Rachel Dolezal Precipitates a Smoked Irish Predicament

McDonnell is a macro economist at the American Enterprise Institute, an ostensibly nonpartisan public policy research think-tank here in Washington DC. Well, as Teddy Roosevelt used to say, horsefeathers!  AEI is a community of sycophantic, neoconservative scholars and their obscenely wealthy supporters committed to making sure that the rich get richer and the poor get… Continue reading Rachel Dolezal Precipitates a Smoked Irish Predicament

Duck, Duck, Duck, Duck… Homophobic Racist!

I’m not generally a morning person, but when one of my clients wants a consultation in my downtown office at 6:00 AM, it’s my professional duty to be there, and this morning, I was.  Very few of my clients are like that, however, so after completing a ninety minute meeting with a ramrod stiff colonel… Continue reading Duck, Duck, Duck, Duck… Homophobic Racist!