I recently learned that #hygge is a thing. Apparently it’s been trending all year. (I need to get out more.) Pronounced “hoo-ga” or “hue-gah,” it’s a Danish concept. You may of heard that the Danish are the happiest people in the world. Denmark is also home to some of the best crime writers on the planet. Don’t try to reconcile…
Category: Quick Takes
Trump Prefers Dictators
Trump, by his actions and words, has shown he has and wants to have good relations with dictators or would-be dictators (Putin, Duterte, Fattah el-Sisi, Erdogan for example), and to pick fights with democratic leaders (of Canada, Australia and Mexico). (More to come)
Gorsuch Confirmed
Neil Gorsuch was confirmed to the United States Supreme Court today. Let’s look at how we got here. In March 2016, President Obama nominated Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland, a completely qualified judge, to the Supreme Court seat created by the death of Antonin Scalia. For much of election year 2016, the Republicans in the House and Senate said that “the…
Maureen Dowd Nailed It
Columnist Maureen Dowd really nailed the problems with Donald Trump and his presidency in her column that ran in the Sunday, March 26, 2017, edition of The New York Times, in stellar fashion. The column was written as a letter to Donald, and it contains many gems. It speaks for itself and is a joy to behold.
Troubling Events In Trumpland: Wiretapping
There have been some very troubling and concerning events during the last two weeks. For example, on March 15, there was a very high-security, highly classified briefing held by FBI Director James Comey with Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Sen. Chuck Grassley. Grassley is the Republican and Feinstein is the Democrat. This briefing was held in a specially compartmented facility to…
Trump’s Immigration Actions Are Only A Distraction
Could Trump — or anyone — explain to me how deporting every illegal alien in this country, or even 50% of those people, is going to improve any aspect of my life? I am honestly trying to see how or if all Trump’s immigration activity is anything but an enormous distraction from the real actions Trump and his Cabinet are…
Trump’s New Deportation Rules — February 21, 2017
Just a couple of things that spring immediately to mind after reading about Trump’s new deportation rules for people in the United States illegally: 1) What will become of the millions of children who have been born in the US to the immigrants here illegally? Since the children — having been born here in the United States — are citizens…
Trump Spreads His Own Fake News
Honestly, we can’t make this stuff up. At his “campaign event” rally in Melbourne, Florida, on February 18, 2017, Trump claimed that something awful had happened the previous day in Sweden. Specifically, he said, “We’ve got to keep our country safe,” Trump said at a rally on Saturday. “You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s happening last night…
Trump Signs Law Permitting Waste Dumping By Mining Companies
On Feb. 16, Trump signed legislation rolling back a rule established by the Obama administration that prohibited mining companies from dumping their waste into streams and rivers. The Office of Surface Mining’s Stream Protection Rule was designed to protect waterways from coal mining waste. The rule was finalized in December 2016. Apparently, to the GOP members of the legislature and…
Can We Take A Break From Winning, Trump?
It’s only been four weeks and I’m tired of all the winning. Trump, you said we Americans would get tired of winning, and you were right. Can you give us a break from the winning, for just a little while? I don’t think our country can take much more of all this winning.