LinkedIn on Thursday, May 7, 2026
After repeatedly telling us that his glorious ballroom would be funded by private money – without disclosing the sources of those funds – President Trump is now asking Congress for one billion dollars to pay for it. Not incidentally, one billion is five times the two hundred million he originally told us the ballroom would cost.
LinkedIn on Monday, May 4, 2026
Image is from “Real Time” marketing material.
On last Friday’s episode of “Real Time,” host Bill Maher complained that anti-Trump rhetoric was contributing to the political violence of our time – that the problem is not just the mean-speak of President Trump himself and his followers. Bill’s point was that Trump’s opponents should carefully consider the language they use to express dissatisfaction with the President’s leadership.
LinkedIn on Monday, April 27, 2026
We should take it provided that they agree to begin discussions of nuclear weapons development soon, let’s say within 90 days. That those discussions include Israel, which already has nuclear weapons, and other Middle East nations. And that those talks encompass Iran’s (and Lebanon’s) continuing tolerance and support for terrorism.
LinkedIn on Friday, April 24, 2026
As you know, the Trump administration is required to refund the more than $166 billion in tariff revenues it collected, but which the Supreme Court has ruled to be illegal. That’s a rough average of $500 per person. Keep that number in mind. If you’re a family of four, your household’s share would be $2000.
LinkedIn on Tuesday, April 22, 2026
As an alternative to Congressman Raskin’s efforts to affect the removal of President Trump via the 25th Amendment by proving the President is nuts – and various criticisms of that initiative – let me offer a much simpler, more likely to succeed proposal. Let’s just have Congress revoke the President’s Top Secret/SCI/SAP security clearance. SCI stands for “Sensitive Compartmented Information.” SAP refers to “Special Access Programs.”
LinkedIn on Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Without a doubt, there are a good number of Republicans in Congress who have long been dreaming of the day when Donald J. Trump would go away. That day has come as a result of President Trump having threatened the people of Iran with annihilation. According to international law, just the threat of annihilation is illegal. More importantly, according to common sense and all manner of normal and reasonable considerations, it was a stupendously ridiculous and dangerous thing to do.
LinkedIn on Friday, April 17, 2026
Enough of writing about Donald J. Trump and his Looney Tunes cabinet. After hearing Secretary Hegseth quoting fictional scripture according to Samuel L. Jackson’s character in “Pulp Fiction,” I’ve had it for at least the next few days.
LinkedIn on Saturday, March 28, 2026
From the famous “Peanuts” cartoon series by Charles Schulz.
A week or so ago, on the verge of a bipartisan agreement that would fund the TSA, Coast Guard and everyone in the Department of Homeland Security except ICE – leaving problems with the latter to be worked out later – Trump shut it all down. He tells his Republicans that under no circumstances are they to make a deal with the Democrats. And like the lemmings they are, his Republicans throw themselves over the nearest cliff, politically speaking, to do his bidding.
LinkedIn on Monday, March 23, 2026
A long time ago, I went to went to see my grandmother – my mother’s mother – who, well into her nineties, was living out the last few years of her life at a seniors’ home. There in her room, she held court in a manner of speaking, sitting in a chair, talking for a while to some of my cousins and me. Many years later, I’d have no memory of the event were it not for the moment when she told one particular cousin that she, my grandmother, matriarch of our family, thought the dress my cousin was wearing was particularly unattractive. It was a strangely mean and embarrassing thing to say, but how she made my cousin feel that day never crossed her mind.
LinkedIn on Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Let me start by confessing that I’m no fan of Donald Trump. Not even close. But I don’t what anything to happen to him, physically that is. I know he’s seventy-nine, overweight and that his exercising is limited to playing golf and walking up the runway stairs onto Air Force One. And then there’s that creepy little dance he does when the music plays at his rallies. No one lives forever but, for humane and political reasons, I wish him well.
LinkedIn on Monday, March 2, 2026
The government of world’s greatest economy misses the point.
Standing there at the podium from the tush of our government in Mar-a-Lago, and then later in The White House situation room, our President, wearing a white trucker hat with “USA” embroidered on it, announces and then watches our attack on Iran, code name “Epic Fury.” The imagery of it screams immaturity and incompetence.
LinkedIn on Wednesday, February 25, 2026
These notes are to stimulate discussion of the subject.
Without question, the ongoing development of Artificial Intelligence, including robotics, marks the onset of the most significant economic and social era in human history since the Industrial Revolution.