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Simple life gets even simpler

Some of you might recall that I blogged about my life becoming simpler, less complicated than before. Well gang, I’ve discovered that a simple life can get even simpler. I don’t have much to say today about what’s going on in the world of hard news. Yep. Simplicity is a good thing. At least it is for me. I get to devote blog topics to, oh let’s see, about blogging. This particular avocation…

Trump has 'murdered' '60 Minutes'

At this very moment I am thinking of some of the titans of American broadcast journalism, men and women who sought the truth and told it to us without fear of recrimination. You know who they are: Mike Wallace, Ed Bradley, Leslie Stahl, Bill Whitaker, Bob Simon, Harry Reasoner, Morley Safer, Diane Sawyer, Dan Rather and now … Scott Pelley. They all worked for “60 Minutes,” the premier TV news…

Clown show signs on another player

Legal scholars need not apply for any position within the Trump administration that requires knowledge of the U.S. Constitution. All you have to be is a pal to Donald J. Trump. Todd Blanche, who once served as Trump’s criminal defense lawyer, appears to be POTUS 47’s latest pick to be attorney general. He replaces the disgraced Pam Bondi, another dedicated Trumpkin who got canned a few weeks…

It's official ... Trump has lost his mind!

You might write this down if you’re inclined, but just keep it in mind as you ponder the future of Donald J. Trump’s political career. It’s now as clear as it gets that the 45th and 47th POTUS has lost what used to pass for what was left of his mind. Why? Because the dimwit in chief wants to unilaterally pull the broadcast license of ABC News because it has the temerity to broadcast “negative…

Our crook? Pffftt!

A letter to the editor that appeared in today’s Dallas Morning News dredges up an old saying that seeks to dismiss crooked politicians’ seedy behavior. The writer refers to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s behavior since taking office in January 2015. “If Paxton is a crook,” the letter writer suggests, “but he’s our crook.” The writer sought to draw a parallel between Paxton’s shenanigans and…

Paxton didn't get a mandate in the runoff

Before the MAGA morons who supported Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Republican runoff victory over John Cornyn get too full of themselves, allow to briefly put a this victory into some perspective. Yes, the AG scored a decisive victory, beating the U.S. senator by 27 percentage points in the runoff. However, Paxton only tallied about 12,000 more votes in the runoff than he got in the GOP…

Intense interest grows in wanting war to end

I have an interest in seeing the Iran war come to an end and it has nothing to do with whether I would be called up or whether my sons would face the same future. Hey, they’re both too old as I certainly am. My interest in the war’s end is rooted in my retirement account. I read just a few minutes ago that consumers are now bracing for the biggest monthly decline in oil prices in six years,…

Judicial system stands tall

Before you declare the death of our system of representative democracy, allow me — please — to offer these words in the form of a pre-rebuttal. The federal judiciary. The court system has stepped up and performed its constitutionally mandated duty in reigning in the overreach of the executive branch of government … precisely as the nation’s founders said it should. Federal judges have ruled…

How do we settle on the worst of us?

This point deserves to be repeated, so … therefore I will do so. I will go to the Great Beyond never understanding how the American voting public could stop insisting on selecting the best among us for high office and settle for the worst among us. Our values have been turned on their ears. We no longer care if our president is a serial philanderer, or that he is a convicted felon, lacks any…

Candidate will be gone; ideology will last longer

One day quite soon, I am confident that our American political system will rid itself of the poisonous MAGA founder, Donald Trump. He’s been elected twice as president. The Constitution says two terms is enough. No more. He’ll be gone and on Jan. 20, 2029, someone new will take office. I will be glad to send Trump packing. I fear, however, that the movement he founded will linger for a good…

GOP has found its spine! Finally!

Great day in the morning … as it appears the congressional Republican caucus has discovered its spine and perhaps even grown a collective set of stones. What prompted this late-blooming coming of age for the GOP caucus? It’s the slush fund founded by Donald J. Trump, the lame-duck POTUS who has found a way to potentially reward the traitors who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. Trump settled a $10…

Cornyn wins Charade Gamer of the Year

I never saw this one coming, but it’s here and today I want to bestow on a veteran Texas senator an award he wouldn’t like receiving but he’s going to get it anyway. Republican John Cornyn is the winner of the High Plains Blogger Charade Gamer of the Year award. How did he earn this honor? The nature of his political campaign for re-election to the Senate makes it sound as if Donald Trump…

Memorial Day honors our heroes

I consider myself to be one of the luckiest men on Earth, given that I graduated from high school during the height of a bloody war in a faraway land … and lived to talk about it and to build a wonderful life with my family. Memorial Day is upon us. We will remember those who fell on the field of battle while serving the nation they all loved. We’ll fire up the grills in the yard, play with our…

Adjusting to a simple life

One of the many adjustments I have made in my life since I lost my bride, Kathy Anne, to cancer more than three years ago involves the issue of simplicity. My life today — at this moment — is as uncomplicated as it can possibly be. And that is saying something. Kathy Anne and I were joined at the hip for more than 51 years. I met her in college, we fell in love almost on sight, we married eight…

Colbert to soar, Trump to crash and burn!

We have gotten through comedian Stephen Colbert’s final show on Late Night, for which I stayed up way past my bedtime to watch just how Colbert was going to sign off. He didn’t disappoint me. My favorite part was when Sir Paul McCartney walked out after Colbert was rejected by the “the pope.” Sir Paul offered himself to be Colbert’s final celebrity interview. OK, I am going to offer only this…

Stop this ego project!

This item popped up on my Facebook feed this afternoon, and I want to share it with you. Donald Trump is planning to build a 250-foot golden monument to himself right in front of Arlington National Cemetery, blocking the poignant view from the Lincoln Memorial to the graves of our fallen. After dodging the draft five times, he now wants to force our honored dead into his own shadow. Veterans are…

Yes, on 'career pols'!

I am going to stand briefly and speak well of a sub-species of human beings who, in my view, are vilified too often simply because of the profession the choose to pursue. I am talking about your run-of-the-mill “career politician.” One of the latest victims of this ill-informed epithet happens to be U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, the Texas Republican who’s in the fight of his political life trying to…

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