Can it happen here?

George Conway [@gtconway3d] used to be married to Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump's ubiquitous liar to media, she of the "alternativ...

So I watched the debate. For a good bit of it that's more than figuratively true. Seeing that Biden appeared befuddled, I turned the sou...

  Sometimes it appears as if Mio and Janeway think their job is sitting for a portrait.  Of course, at any moment, this tableau can turn int...

I'm sitting around, planning to catch the debate between Joe and the Orange Sociopath, and remembering 2016. Hillary Clinton describes ...

In this season of anxiety and political discontent, we're quietly chugging along out here on the Left Coast in the direction of a sustai...

It's not going to determine who is elected in November.  Donald Trump doesn't care about anyone but himself. He certainly doesn'...

But we do. On this 2-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision, handing control over women's bodies to crackpot legislators and political h...

Louisiana's new law requiring all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments reminded me of an anecdote from NPR reporter...

We have, I think, gotten to where we don't have to be told that the climate is changing -- warming and also becoming more unpredictably ...

From the Washington Post: Vice President Harris on Friday credited hospitality workers who mobilized supporters in Georgia, Nevada and Arizo...

This is where Janeway and Mio landed after a vigorous bout of chasing. He could get up to the lookout, but given his girth, he's more li...

The Washington Post published a sweet feature [ gift link ] centering young Ukrainians, one of whom has been defending her country from Russ...

 The History Channel offers an accessible story:

For those of us unmoved by the supposed attractions of the MAGA movement and its felonious leader, it's all too easy to keep coming back...

There has always been a cohort of highbrow Americans who were certain they are too smart, too important, too well educated to have to accomm...

I used to have no doubt about the unifying superpower of sports — how they turn strangers into teammates and teammates into family, how they...

When my father retired -- semi-voluntarily because the little company that had employed him for decades was sold -- my mother convinced him ...

Never was much for this pseudo-holiday, perhaps in part because it didn't get me a day off in grade school. But some people are into fla...

I have an overseer. Yes, I do worry that all 20 pounds of Mio might arrive precipitously. But fortunately he's a pretty cautious boy.

An occasional  post featuring visual presentations of data that I found interesting. Sorry -- all too much of this about MAGA and its Orange...