Since I wrote this piece in 2018 the situation hasn’t really changed. The major mania for the Trump camp is still immigration and exclusion. Now it’s the Hatians who have displaced Latinos at the bottom of the immigrant barrel. My great-grandfathers on both sides were German immigrants who came to America in the mid-late 19th … The post I’m Not an Immigrant appeared first on Goodman Speaks ..read more

Enough words have been spilled on this, but you have to listen to those with some authority―e.g., Frank Luntz, the long-time Republican pollster on how Trump has blown his chances in the election: Luntz said he thought it wasn’t that the Democratic nominee won the debate, but “I think more accurately, is that Donald Trump lost.” “And … The post Cats and Dogs for Lunch and Trump’s Demise appeared first on Goodman Speaks ..read more

The problem was not so much with Dana Bash, though she let Kamala off the hook too often. The problem was that the Vice President kept hiding behind Biden’s coattails and spoke mostly in generalities. She kept saying, “My values haven’t changed.” Dana should have asked, “Well then, what are your policies for carrying them … The post Harris’s Overhyped Interview: We Learned Nothing appeared first on Goodman Speaks ..read more

Maybe she looks a little looney here because this photo was cribbed from a video of her jazz-buying spree in DC last year. Kamala Harris and her husband are big jazz fans, as some of you may know. Husband Doug Emhoff was written up in The Atlantic last month: The second gentleman, who might also … The post Harris and Mingus appeared first on Goodman Speaks ..read more

That’s what he said three times while the Secret Service was hauling him off the stage. Wounded and bleeding, he was worrying about his shoes. Why haven’t people commented more about this strange fixation on his footwear? It may be one of his notable oddities, of which there are many. One theory has it that … The post “Let Me Get My Shoes” appeared first on Goodman Speaks ..read more

I had written this satirical piece about President Biden, and then suddenly last night the Former President endured an assassination attempt. Another horrible indictment of the violence in this country. So it might not be in good taste to publish the piece right now, but the political battles will go on and Trump will survive. … The post President Quixote appeared first on Goodman Speaks ..read more

“Hey man, how ya doin’? How’s your life?” “Fine. It will be over soon.” National Library of Medicine on Aging (NIH): “The anterior-posterior, dorsal-ventral, and proximal-distal axes are sequentially specified and involve interactions between different compartments in the imaginal discs.” “Rishi Sunak is coming to dinner.” 2025: President Harris could put Trump in jail. 2025: … The post Conversation Stoppers appeared first on Goodman Speaks ..read more

On Thursday evening comes CNN’s ballyhooed clown show with two unsympathetic candidates. Neither of them is very good at debating, and one has eschewed all preparation. Many will watch to see who stumbles the most, not who wins. The attraction of a political debate is more than seeing who scores the most points. It’s to … The post Debate Prep: A Remembrance appeared first on Goodman Speaks ..read more

Down the rabbit hole into the dreary land of SCOTUS came Alice, looking for clarity and judgment and finding none. She simply wanted to know if those things they called bump stocks―devices to make those nasty guns they called assault rifles―could be modified to kill even more people. Her White Rabbit was the ATF which … The post Alice in Bump Stock Land appeared first on Goodman Speaks ..read more

Korean food is really good; I ordered some the other night. Yet for years we have read tales of scarcity and even famine in the North. Now the Dear Leader, with his legendary sense of humor (like executing his uncle), chooses to drop nearly a thousand poop-and-trash filled balloons on his neighbors to the South, … The post Diplomacy by Other Means appeared first on Goodman Speaks ..read more