Let me get this right. A so-called tax “reform” bill that could screw up our economy, hurt millions of middle class families and is opposed by a strong majority of the American people is being rushed through the Republican-controlled Congress without serious deliberation simply because fat cat Republican donors have warned legislators that their campaign …
Author: aronsbarron
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Yecch! Al Franken was a boor. A jerk. A pig. A sexual assaulter. Not like serial offenders Roy Moore, Bill Clinton or Donald Trump, but on the sexually offensive spectrum nonetheless. In 2006, on a USO tour, a photographer took his picture mugging for the camera and appearing to grope the breasts of entertainer Leeann Tweeden, …
Trump’s Asia trip a failed opportunity
Just because Donald Trump didn't vomit on the Japanese Prime Minister the way George H. W. Bush did in 1992, didn't make the President's 12- day Asia trip a resounding success. Announcing billion dollar business deals negotiated prior to the trip, still only memoranda of understanding with hard details to follow, doesn’t rise to the …
Moving beyond zero-sum politics
It's hard not to feel good about last Tuesday's election results. Winning beats losing. Trying to tout losing by special congressional elections by ever-narrower margins doesn't cut it. Never mind that Virginia trends blue anyway and voted Democratic the last three Presidential elections and four of the last five gubernatorial races. Tuesday's special election victory …
Daylight saving by any means
Late tonight (aka Sunday morning) is the start of the deep blue funk. Clocks are set back one hour at two a.m. Soon sunset will be a little after four o'clock. (In Maine, it's before four p.m.) Vitamin D will only come in bottles from CVS. People start lusting after mac and cheese, custard and …
Boston’s election matters beyond Boston
Where 'ya from? Travel anywhere outside New England, and the answer is likely to be "Boston." Whether we live in Newton, Lowell or Quincy, Boston's decision to reelect Marty Walsh or choose Tito Jackson to be mayor has consequences for us. Transportation, housing, safety, education - all issues being debated in this year's Newton mayoral …
Neighborhood oases in era of Trump
Reading, especially fiction. Listening to music. Attending theater and concerts. Taking courses. Working. Gardening. Connecting with friends and family. All worthy efforts to distract from the havoc that Donald Trump is wreaking upon us. All effective, if temporary, relief from the three hard copy newspapers arriving daily and many more online, the background drone of …
Outing Harvey Weinstein isn’t enough
Outrage over sexual assault shouldn't be a partisan contest. Whether you’re Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes, Bill Clinton, Bill Cosby, Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein or Bob in Accounting, sexual predation is inexcusable. But as bad as their behavior, I’m similarly outraged by those who, because of self-interest, enable miscreants to continue unchecked and law enforcement and …
Guns and other insanity
So, the consoler-in-chief has visited Las Vegas in the wake of a mass slaughter at a concert there, and, unlike yesterday's shameful performance in Puerto Rico, he stayed on script. He called the gunman "sick and demented, " but he refused to be drawn into discussing solutions to the mass killings. Don't look to Donald …
Sports, patriotism and the national anthem
With everything else to worry about, - think North Korea, health care, hurricane victims - Donald Trump should be excoriated for distracting us with his attack on the National Football League players and team owners who make political statements by choosing to stand, kneel, sing or not sing our national anthem. The President of the United …
Marjorie Arons-Barron 