Time To Put An End To Money Controlling Politics And Government – Before It’s Too Late

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LinkedIn on Monday, December 15, 2025

When I was a kid, there were no smart phones and you could still tune up your car with a handful of ordinary tools, without a graduate degree in computer science.  Chips and software that would humanize machines that can out-think us were science fiction.  Not anymore.  Today, their reality is singlehandedly supporting the stock market at levels that were once considered astronomical and powering the growth of our economy – masking problems elsewhere that might otherwise suggest an early stage recession.

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High School Civics

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LinkedIn on Tuesday, December 9, 2025

I’m not a lawyer.  Nor am a Constitutional historian.  And I’m lightyears away from being a Supreme Court Justice.  What I have, at best, is an understanding of how our government is supposed to work that I was taught in high school – a long, long time ago, figuratively speaking, in a galaxy (Annapolis Senior High) far, far away.

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Out of Control

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LinkedIn on Sunday, December 7, 2025

Sometimes it’s the little things that are the most telling.

As you may have already heard, President Trump has “ruled” – and I mean that literally – that Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Juneteenth will no longer be fee-free days at our national parks.  In their place, he has added Flag Day (June 14) to the list which just happens to be his birthday.

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Absent Even Rudimentary Degrees of Kindness

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LinkedIn on Thursday, November 6, 2025

Never one to forego an opportunity to be nasty, here, below in italics, is what President Trump had to say today when Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement.

“I’m glad she’s retiring,” Trump said as he took reporter questions in the Oval Office during a news conference on reducing the cost of weight loss drugs for Americans. “I think she did the country a great service by retiring,” Trump continued. “I think she was a tremendous liability for the country. I thought she was an evil woman who did a poor job, who cost the country a lot in damages and in reputation.”

What an awful person – referring to the President, of course. He’s been diagnosed as having malignant narcissism. Is this what we’re seeing? Does he need to make other people small to make himself larger by comparison?

-Les

Dangerously Insufficiently Intelligent To Be President

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LinkedIn on Thursday, October 30, 2025

President Trump – whose intellect is handicapped by malignant narcissism – lacks the intelligence to understand many of the basic, most critical principles and behavior of our economy, political system, science and technology, culture and international relationships.  Making matters worse, he surrounds himself with advisors who are unable or unwilling to explain the truth that he needs to know and who support his belief that he is the smartest person in the room which he is not.

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Explaining the Election of Donald J. Trump

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LinkedIn on Monday, October 27, 2025

Hardly a day has gone by since Donald Trump was first elected when I haven’t heard some pundit explaining why.  How is it possible that a majority of American voters have elected an ethically challenged person suffering, according to experts, from “malignant narcissism” – hence his proclivity for authoritarianism and complete disregard for law and order – a person as dumb as he is nuts, President?

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Majorie? Calling Majorie Taylor Greene.

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LinkedIn on Sunday, October 26, 2025

Good morning, everybody.

Will somebody please ask Speaker of the House Mike Johnson why he needs a continuing resolution in the first place? It’s because the House he pretends to run can’t produce a budget when it’s due! If he was a corporate CFO and failed this badly to do his job, they’d fire his tush the hell out of there.

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“Tokhes afn tish.” It’s Yiddish for “Tush on the table.”

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LinkedIn on Tuesday, October 14, 2025

The Republicans aren’t even willing to talk.

Will somebody please suggest to the Democratic leadership in Congress that they hold – and widely publicize! – open, televised meetings to discuss a compromise with their Republican counterparts. If the Republicans refuse to come, the Democrats can hold the meeting(s) without them and let the failure of Republicans to attend be the headline of the day.

Democrats should be well-prepared with charts and videos to make their arguments.

-Les