What Do I Know?

Time is passing on fast forward.  Today is April Fools Day, 2025, but it's hard to come up with anything crazier than what the US presid...

That wasn't the original title, but as I started writing, it just seemed more apt.   This post is about two videos - one by Senator Chri...

Intro:  Civil Service and Merit System are terms most Americans have heard, but I'd guess that few could tell you, very accurately, wh...

There's a coup happening in DC.  There's no other way to describe it.  The president is nominating and the Senate is approving candi...

Since President Elect Trump tells more lies than truths, it seems appropriate for him to have fictional cabinet members to match the fiction...

Kamal Harris lost the popular vote to Donald Trump by almost 10 million votes! How did the election swing so far to Trump?  How much was vot...

This is one of those historic moments when the world will pull back from the bring of disaster or go crashing into a new world of callous de...

The previous post concerned how the billionaire owners of the LA Times and Washington Post blocked their editorial boards from endorsing Ka...

 We saw the film about Roy Cohn yesterday afternoon.  Of course, it also is about Donald Trump - the Apprentice in the film title. Here'...

The previous post, Farrago , meandered into the power struggles in the US and the assault on science in favor of fantastic explanations of t...

In 2016, Trump beat Clinton, in Alaska, by 46,943 votes.   From Alaska Div of Elections While that seems like a lot of votes, there were 207...

Trump scowled and scolded and lied expansively about Harris and Biden and bragged about how everything he ever did was the greatest accompli...