Rondam Ramblings

David Frum in the Atlantic has a  long-form piece  describing a frighteningly plausible scenario of how Donald Trump can lead the U.S. into ...

Commenter Tony pointed me to  this piece by Masha Gessen .  I'm not entire certain yet whether Trump is actually planning a Machtergrei...

To which I would add: Countries where Donald Trump does business: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and Lebanon .  (Oh, and Turkey, which is als...

I've had an item on my todo list for months to take a deep dive into the question of anthropogenic climate change.  Alas, with everythin...

Donald Trump vowed today to  'totally destroy' the wall of separation between church and state . Of course, in Trump's Americ...

Donald Trump's closest advisor Steve Bannon thinks there will be war with China in the next few years .  And he probably has the power t...

The Trump administration is mass-producing outrages on such an industrial scale I can barely keep up. Yesterday Trump  fired the acting at...

I had a truly frightening realization today.  I have been wrong about Donald Trump nearly every step of the way.  At first I thought there w...

Donald Trump has been in office less than two weeks and already he has managed to plunge the United States of America into utter chaos.  I ...

A mosque in Victoria, Texas was  destroyed by fire  this morning.  The cause is being reported as "unknown" but I'll give you...

When he  crushed her soul? It's not just the change in Melania's expression that is striking; the smug self-satisfied look on Do...

It's easy to miss just how far off the deep end Trump has gone with his   executive order to bar entry into the U.S. from seven Muslim c...

What should come as no surprise to anyone, the  GOP Quietly Admits There Will Be No Obamacare Replacement : The history of the development...

Tens of thousands marched for life on the national mall today.  The crowd was large and  diverse  enough that the pro-life movement cannot ...

The nazification of the United States has begun.   Miami-Dade is going to start jailing suspected illegal immigrants without a warrant . H...

[Another geeky break from Trump bashing] I had an "aha" moment about the project plane that I thought I would share.  For those ...

The utter cluelessness of Donald Trump's supporters is beyond mind-boggling.  In Franklin, Tennessee, the owner of a knitting store put ...

Heh. this is interesting.  The ostensible headline on this New York Magazine story is, "Trump Aides Keep Leaking Embarrassing Stories A...

Today's headlines are like the scene in the horror movie where, after a short quiet period accompanied by dramatic music, the zombies s...

Oh, the irony : President Trump has banned employees of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from giving social media updates and spea...

Just for the record, I think  Trump got it right on the TPP .  I'm generally a fan of free trade, but the TPP gave way too much power to...

I figure if I want to maintain the moral high ground with respect to my slogan, "Where nothing is off topic," I figure I should wr...

The Washington Post has an  excellent analysis  of Trump's executive order.  TL;DR: it's going to cause chaos: Robert Laszewski, ...

From the  Christian Science Monitor: Republican legislators recently introduced a bill that would essentially ban large-scale renewable en...

Turns out that the  audit was an excuse and Trump is never releasing his tax returns . If that surprises you, then you really haven't ...

From  The Washington Post , on an exchange between NBC news reporter Chuck Todd and Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, regarding White House p...

Reader Publius writes : Given President Trump's selection of Sen. Tom Price for HHS Secretary, one should expect the replacement plan ...

Something I was going to mention in my previous post but forgot, and it's important enough that I thought I'd make a separate post:...

I went to the local Women's march today.  It was the first political protest I've ever attended.  (The Viet Nam war ended when I wa...

They're real.  Here's the original .

Trump’s inaugural address was terrifying . "The bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America......

Especially if you're black : The new White House website went live following Donald Trump’s inauguration Friday, and it contained a br...

At exactly noon eastern time,  all references to climate change were deleted from the White House website . This is eerily reminiscent of ...

I had a very vivid dream last night.  I was a passenger in the back seat of a small four-seat airplane that was careening wildly out of cont...