With the Iron Maiden canned, Trump has made “the odious Stephen Miller” his new chief of staff. The Democrats could not have asked for a better political gift, Miller being the architect and head cheerleader of the worst and most despised Trump initiatives, from the rounding up and removal to random countries of anyone with skin of a hue less white than his to the murder by the military of people in boats on the open seas.

The 41-year-old Miller embodies much of what America voted against, and Trump’s elevating him to COS, the position closest to Trump and most likely to be the last voice he hears before he indulges in his most unseemly whims, is a declaration of war against America. Continue reading →

TO: College Football Playoff Committee
FROM: Me
RE: Tuesday’s bullshit

Dear Learned Persons of the CFP Committee:

Like every good SEC Football fan I watched the initial rankings you posted on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. After viewing the rankings on ESPN and listening to the ensuing discussion, I have two questions.

1. With all due respect, what the fuck is wrong with you people?
2. With all due respect, are you high and what are you smoking?

You ranked Alabama at #5 in the initial Playoff Rankings. Tennessee is at #13. I humbly invite all of your moronic asses to make this shit make sense. Continue reading →

More than 100 people wasted their time showing up and expressing their outrage and opposition to Trump’s glorious triumphal arch before the Trump-controlled National Capital Planning Commission. The meeting went late into the night, but the outcome was never in doubt, as the chair of the commission made clear beforehand.

“President Trump’s historic vision for a monumental arch at Memorial Circle would complete a project over a century in the making, and honor our nation and her veterans, and provide the sacred ground of Arlington National Cemetery with the monumental gateway it deserves,” Mr. Paoletta said. “It would also represent a generational security opportunity to protect our nation’s capital.”

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Hakeem Jeffries, expected to be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, made it clear that it was not his intention to use his majority over the next two years to seek retribution on Trump and his sycophantic enablers. Rather, he said his focus would be on “getting things done” by making life more affordable. Radley Balko makes a compelling argument about why that won’t work, and why that ignores the mandate given the Democrats by this overwhelming rejection of Trump, MAGA and the long list of people who enjoyed the fruits of corruption.

Sure, the Democrats should work with whatever sane Republicans remain in Congress to end Trump’s tariffs, get us out of the war in Iran, and do whatever else is within Congress’s power to stop this administration’s assault on the economy. Continue reading →

At the end of the movie, The Candidate, Robert Redford utters the prophetic words “What do we do now?” Indeed.

Trump was crushed yesterday. Trump, of course, blames everyone and everything but himself, because that’s what Trump does. He told his faithful to pretend he was on the ballot. They did. Regardless, the outcome is a monumental repudiation of Trump. This cannot be denied.

But that doesn’t mean it’s an endorsement of the Democrats, and even more pointedly, either wing of the Democratic Party. Winning in Texas, Kansas and Iowa certainly isn’t an endorsement of the left-wing agenda, even if El-Sayed prevailed in Michigan. The Democrats didn’t win because they’re so beloved. They’re not. They won, but only because they weren’t Trump. Continue reading →

It’s been a grueling campaign season. Ridiculous amounts of money have paid for a relentless stream of television advertisements ranging from the flagrantly deceitful to the overtly disgusting. But it’s now over and time for decisions to be made. Will this be the end of the 2026 midterms or the start of a new round of games to undermine democracy?

Trump will now be officially the lamest of ducks, not that it will stop him from efforts to impose his aesthetics upon a nation that doesn’t share his adoration of goldish doodads and the construction of monuments to his imagined glory. The war of choice in Iran remains unresolved and unresolvable, the Epstein files remain undisclosed, the enemies of Trump remain perpetual targets of prosecution by a Justice Department that exists to do Trump’s bidding, America’s standing in the world has been reduced to an untrustworthy pariah and prices at the pump and the grocery store continue to crush Americans. Continue reading →

Political polling is nothing new. I got a job doing political polling back in the 1970s, cold calling random people on a list to ask about their affiliation and who they would be voting for. Most people hung up on me. Some were all too happy to engage and tell me far more than I asked. In the end, it meant nothing.

Today, we’re inundated by polls. From what we’re being told, it would appear that the Democrats will take the House of Representatives and have an outside chance of taking a majority in the Senate. Will it be a blue wave, a tsunami or will it be a puddle? Trump says the polls show his support to be overwhelming and his endorsees will take it all. What polls he’s talking about is something of a mystery. Continue reading →

Tight though that outcome of the Michigan primary was between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, there was a winner, and that winner was Abdul El-Sayed. His candidacy reveals a fracture within the Democratic Party that can’t be easily ignored or smoothed over. Two things have been made overwhelmingly clear as a result of this. There is a unified Democratic Party against Trump and MAGA, and there is an insurmountable schism within the Democrats as to whether they are the party of liberals or the party of left-wing progressives.

There is supposed to be a unity rally in Michigan today, brokered by Representatives Debbie Dingell of Michigan and James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, where Stevens and El-Sayed would both appear and link arms against the MAGA menace. It’s fallen apart. Continue reading →

Friends, next week we’ll return to Sheriff Roy’s latest adventures. This week? We’re celebrating one of the three best holidays of the year! That’s right, kids of all ages: TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!

My family and I love Halloween. What’s not to like about a day when ghouls, ghosts, long-legged beasties and things that go “bump” in the night roam our streets in search of candy? Our kids get to dress up, the adults load up cartoonishly large adult beverages in Yeti tumblers and we walk the streets soaking in the fall atmosphere.

It’s a good time. Continue reading →

The Ninth Circuit was faced with a very tough conflict. California’s law, SB 399, prohibited employers from forcing their employees to listen to religious or political speech upon pain of adverse job consequences.

[a]n employer, [with exceptions not relevant here], shall not subject, or threaten to subject, an employee to discharge, discrimination, retaliation, or any other adverse action because the employee declines to attend an employer-sponsored meeting or affirmatively declines to participate in, receive, or listen to any communications with the employer or its agents or representatives, the purpose of which is to communicate the employer’s opinion about religious or political matters. An employee who is working at the time of the meeting and elects not to attend a meeting described in this subdivision shall continue to be paid while the meeting is held.

Much of the opinion addresses a fairly obvious conclusion, that this is a content-based law that implicates the First Amendment as to the employer’s free speech rights. California argued that this law prohibited conduct, not speech. The panel wasn’t buying. Continue reading →