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Additions to the Highlight Reel, Before the Nation Gets Relegated
Sports gives us highlight reels. Politics gives us blooper reels with subpoenas.
This week, the Knicks added one to the good reel. Now I’m hoping for two more: Brazil’s sixth star and a Blue Tsunami big enough to remind Team USA that the coach is supposed to lead the team, not admire himself during the timeout. Continue reading
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No Good Deeds
A black-and-white movie from 1936 accidentally explains everything that’s wrong with America in 2026.
When Longfellow Deeds inherited a fortune, the question was what responsibility came with wealth. Today, billionaires seem to think responsibility is something other people pay for.
How did we get from Gary Cooper’s America to Elon Musk’s? Grab a drink and come down the rabbit hole.
#Politics #Economics #WealthInequality Continue reading
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Term Limits or Pitchforks
Congress has officially evolved into America’s premier retirement community for the backbone deficient. Sponsored by Amazon. Continue reading
Meet John Doe
I was searching for comfort on my streaming services the other day. You all know what kind of a week it has been. You get the point. And while we are at the point-making part of this ditty, you may … Continue reading
The Butterfly and The Bloviator
Trump made a Pearl Harbor joke to the Japanese PM’s face. Hegseth declared war on religious extremism while sporting a Crusades battle-cry tattoo. Bondi’s DOJ dropped the Breonna Taylor charges. And my friend Morgan told me karma would sort it all out. This week’s post is part political autopsy, part philosophy, and ends — improbably — with a butterfly. Continue reading
Photographs and Memories
During a visit with my cousins in São Paulo, a worn folder of old photographs opened a doorway into my family’s past. Inside were images spanning continents and generations—from Vienna and Hungary to Brazil and the United States.
One photograph from 1922 showed two young sisters about to be separated by an ocean. Others revealed relatives shaped by immigration, war, and survival in the twentieth century.
Then one image stopped me cold: a young lieutenant in the United States Army.
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Not A Mistake: Donald Trump and the Politics of “Not a Mistake”
It is not a mistake… When federal prosecutors in Minneapolis sought a warrant to collect evidence from Renee Goods’ vehicle after the shooting, they were told to stand down. They were told by senior officials in the White House, including … Continue reading
The Discombobulator in Chief
The man currently residing in the White House announced this week that the U.S. used a secret weapon when we attacked Venezuela. He called it the “discombulator.” He said he wasn’t allowed to talk about it — which meant, of … Continue reading
Blame it on Rio 
The Real Screwworm:
In which the efficiency experts save fifteen million dollars and spend a billion finding out what the fifteen million was for. Continue reading →