The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against GOP legislators in North Carolina, who had claimed that they should have unreviewable powers to set the rules for their state's federal elections. The six-to-three decision (with Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito dissenting) affirms our fundamental principle of checks and balances. This decision has implications far beyond …
Month: June 2023
GOP Trump defense: performative art or stupidity?
How can someone be an ostrich, a worm, a sheep, a jackal and a dodo all at the same time? It's no zoological mystery. Trump supporters in Congress - the House particularly - do it every day, even those who criticize him privately. So too do most of the other Republican Presidential candidates, most of …
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Books for late spring, pt. 4- fiction, the last tranche for now
As my followers can tell, I do love reading, which served me well during my recovery. But this finishes my current reviews. Happily, I have returned to normal life, seeing friends, going to restaurants, trying to outwit the oversexed rabbits in my garden, salving wounds inflicted by the Bruins and Celtics, keeping hopes alive with …
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Licht’s out, and it’s a good thing
Recently defenestrated Chris Licht is now the former CNN chair and CEO. He had been successful in his previous roles, including show-running the Stephen Colbert show, but he was in over his head - running one of the the three major cable news networks. Licht's initial goal was right on target: avoid the hyper-partisanship of …
Books for late spring, pt. 3- more fiction
Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is a fascinating story about a highly regarded Israeli neurosurgeon, Eitan Green, transferred from Tel Aviv to Beersheba because of hospital politics. Driving his SUV at high speed in the desert late one night, he hits an Eritrean immigrant walking by the side of the road, causing fatal head injuries. …
Marjorie Arons-Barron 