THE GOP CONVENTION…A TIGHTLY ORCHESTRATED MASQUERADE… (…to conceal the inadequacies of its choice) Political conventions are always like a three ring circus, with lots of hoopla and firebrand type speech-making to stir up the party faithful, and otherwise attract the
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SOMETIMES…THROWING A MONKEY WRENCH (…doesn’t necessarily screw up the works…) The recent uproar over freshman senator Cotton’s tough-worded letter to Iran’s Supreme Ayatollah (co-signed by forty eight other Republican senators) may not really be the act of throwing a monkey
IT WILL TAKE A LOT OF DO-OVERS…TO GET THINGS RIGHT (…but first…let’s hope they’ll just get rid of all that “suck”) I have to thank comedian and actor Chris Rock for coming up with the perfect expression to send to
YES…WE CAN STILL CELEBRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY (…despite the best efforts of Congress not to give us any reasons to do so…) As usual on the occasion of Independence Day we go all out for it, with great pomp