In November, 2015, President Donald Trump was speaking at a rally in South Carolina when he began to criticize a New York Times journalist, Serge Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis, a congenital condition affecting his joints. Trump’s beef was that the man had allegedly disclaimed having reported that Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the 911 attacks...Read More

We all know that Trump hates diversity. On March 18 2025 President Trump announced: “We will terminate every diversity, equity, and inclusion program across the entire federal government.”  According to the New York Times, Trump has ordered the removal of the following words from public-facing websites, or ordered the elimination of other materials (including school...Read More

I just had a double-whammy this week.  I attended a community play of George Orwell’s 1984 (where an authority tries to convince a captive that the four fingers he’s holding out represent five fingers), and watched the movie The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski (where Oscar-winner Adrian Brody frantically escapes one Nazi after another in...Read More

So, I hear you voted for Trump, eh?  Well, there’s no way I can possibly fathom why you made that choice – I’m sure you had your reasons.  But I just wanted you to stop for a moment and consider what you accomplished in voting for Donald J. Trump.  Look at what he’s done in...Read More

In the movie L.A. Confidential there’s a scene where the Guy Pearce character (police officer Ed Exley) talks about his father who also was a cop who was killed by a suspect that was never found.  He tells the Kevin Spacey character (Jack Vincennes) that the man’s name wasn’t known, but that he gave him...Read More