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When infrastructure meets road

Republicans are under attack.WhoĢƵ behind the outrage aimed squarely in their direction?Their fellow Republicans.This is gonna be fun.GeorgiaĢƵ ever-undignified congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, has made it her personal crusade to attack many of her 32 fellow Republicans who claimed ...

Building Big Bird Back Better

Building Big Bird Back BetterI don’t have anything against Big Bird.HeĢƵ fine as far as I’m concerned.But I’m 73 years old. I’ve never quite been in that big fellowĢƵ target audience.So, when that 8-foot 2-inch, anthropomorphic bird found himself in the crosshairs of a U.S. senator, ...

The case against critical race fear-mongering

Beware of Obamacare!Those “death panels” are brutal.Remember them?They were hatched out of thin air by Republicans, with hopes of thwarting President ObamaĢƵ proposed health-care reform bill in 2009.It was the boogeyman the folks on the right used as shorthand for the predicted danger ...

Our colorful language again!

I’m beside myself with ... Hey, wait!I can’t possibly be beside myself.ThatĢƵ physiologically impossible.So is when you tell somebody to, “watch your mouth.”They’re a couple of terms Americans use in our thriving arsenal of idioms.Stuff that can’t be taken literally.Back in June, ...

Fox News’ COVID blind spot

The death of Colin Powell meant the loss of another American hero.He was beloved and respected on all sides of AmericaĢƵ ever-widening political divide.Minutes after his death was announced, tributes filled the 24-hour news stations.Some of those tributes were tearful. All were sincere.I was ...

Jon Gruden claims he doesn’t have a racist bone in his body.ItĢƵ not his bones that got him into trouble.It was his brain and his typing fingers that landed the onetime Super Bowl-winning coach in hot water.As a result, heĢƵ now taking his coaching talents to the unemployment line.After ...