Was there any doubt that the Texas Senate would acquit Attorney General Ken Paxton? — When Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was impeached by Texas’s Republican House and Senate, people not familiar with Texas politics were hopeful that Paxton’s long reign as the state’s chief prosecutor would finally be extinguished. After all, this wasn’t your standard Republican impeachment, where they want to remove you…

Most Trump supporters are white people, so stay away from my ass. — I’m at the age where colonoscopies are as routine as your morning latte. In my case, the two often share a room. Don’t worry. This isn’t a Medium story about colonoscopies. It’s a story about people in my demographic. It’s a story about how I won’t entrust people from my…

The evangelical crusade against Americans may look like comedy, but its fucktoids are deadly serious. — Sigh. I miss Billy Graham. Maybe I’m getting old, but in my day, evangelical Christians didn’t openly call for civil war. Here’s Baptist televangelist and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, the daddy of current Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, declaring war against his own country on his TV show for…

I have some ideas, and I bet you do, too — First off, hat tip to Hollywood actors and writers digging in their heels against AI. AI in the creative realm is not something I want to see much of. If China wants to take the lead in AI, let them. If they do, they’ll all be brain-dead in twenty years…

How some local kids found a use for America’s greatest public domain image — You know there’s too much internet when the local kids are using a hologram of Trump’s mugshot to coerce locals to buy lemonade. What follows is a true story, if you're the type who believes everything you read. You see, some of the local kids in my neighborhood built a…

Trying to make sense out of racist killers — I finally finished reading A Course in Miracles. It took me three years (I’ll write more about this soon). Its focus on absolute, unconditional forgiveness as the key to enlightenment took me on a long, fascinating journey. But this morning, I found myself struggling. I struggle with the Jacksonville murders…

The Republican Messiah has returned and he’d like a word with you — I just received this note from dead president Ronald Reagan. The note floated down from Heaven, and Jesus himself asked me to share it with you. Either that, or I’m not timing my meds properly. Anyway, here it is in its entirety: From the Heavenly Desk of Ronald Reagan Hi, all. Ron here. Sigh. Look. I know…

Will Republicans ever formally denounce right-wing terrorism? — Every time someone ripped down the rainbow Pride flag from the Mag.Pi clothing store in the San Bernardino mountains in California, the store’s owner, Laura Ann Carleton, responded by putting up a bigger one. So begins a New York Times August 20, 2023 story about a 66-year-old woman killed by…

Oh, and thanks for the fish — I didn’t always get groceries delivered. See the dude in the graphic talking to himself? That was me a few years ago. Walking merrily from the grocery store on a cool San Francisco day. Hallucinating. The mushrooms were really good back in the day. Things have changed. These days, I…