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Another classic liberal friend of ours (see HL 129) shared yet another back and forth they’d had with a friend from Oklahoma “where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain.”[1] Our friend had been startled that 92 percent of those recently surveyed in Boise City,...

There’s 538 and then there is my friend, a classic liberal who last week – well before release of the recent Siena Poll showing broad public/voter support for Andrew Cuomo – had the following back and forth by text with a Congressperson of their acquaintance: Classic...

Unless your attention and hearing are as acute as Horton’s you probably missed it.  Katy Tur’s MSNBC LIVE assurance that we are not to worry that Dr. Seuss had been banned or cancelled.  Not so says Ms. Tur, because she had read one of Mr. Geisel’s not disappeared...

The greatest good for the greatest number, J. Bentham’s formula, further developed by J.S. Mill, was the core of a once in a lifetime interview of Congressman Jamie Raskin by David Remnick of The New Yorker.  Only 18 minutes, here it is.  Going in, the listener...

Political archaeologists will mark 2/18/2021 and Morning Joe on MSNBC as the day and place New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio entered the 2022 New York State gubernatorial primary.  Against incumbent Andrew Cuomo, should he seek a fourth term, as his father did...

We like Wikipedia, and regularly donate to the Wikimedia Foundation in gratitude. But recently spotted its (our crowdsourced) error on the derivation of a “blowback” – assigning that to the CIA, when in fact the agency’s 20th Century spies got it from their boilers,...