A little more than twenty years ago, the buzz among cinephiles was that there was something about Mary. Today, the buzz heard not so much among moviegoers but by knowledgeable politophobes seems to be that, without a doubt, there’s something about Andy.

Big time.

And that something? How can you be even more radioactive than a transmitter of Covid-19?

The big difference in that observation is that people who have fallen victim to the coronavirus did not choose that status. But there is one Ohio politician who, consistent with his political and other personal beliefs, has chosen self-detonation and, now, […]

In a recent column, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, an assiduous observer of our present plight, wrote that “this is the week when memories rush back from childhood.”

I’ll second that.

A particular memory from my own childhood is that of an oft-told retelling by my grandmother in her role as an observer of another national crisis a century ago. And as you can expect about any crisis, memories of death and dying are long lasting and have a way of sometimes erasing the happy memories of birthday parties, proms, and the like. Here’s my example.

Grandmother […]

Radical unelected bureaucrats. Deep state. Socialism. Loser teachers. But that’s only the short list of epithets.

Nattering nabobs of negativism. Remember that one? More on that later.

When it comes to hurling slime, Republicans are masters of the art of dousing people with rhetorical radioactivity.

Their favorite target: public employees.

As we enter into the fourth and what should be the final year of the most corrupt and incompetent administration in the history of the Republic, it is clear that this administration has given new meaning to the acronym GOP.

In earlier iterations, it was the Grand Old Party, then […]