ratiocinations out of thin air and elsewhere
ON HIS LAST DAY AS PRESIDENT on January 20, 2021, Donald Trump will walk out onto 5th Avenue in New York City and shoot a random passerby. He will then announce his candidacy for the nomination of the Rep*blican Party for President of the United States in 2024. [Read more] “trump to announce candidacy for 2024”
I DON’T FOLLOW EDITORIAL CARTOONING, although I certainly appreciate the fact that we may be living in its golden age. There are so many brilliant individuals who combine political and social insight with intelligence and with along with the ability to draw! While I have paid a certain amount of attention to avid Horsey, part of that is because he is so well known here in the Pacific Northwest. [Read more] “patrick chappatte and will eisner and graphic journalism”
WHEN I WAKE IN THE MORNING, the first thing I do is make a mug of Cafe Bustelo coffee. I don’t wake up with my brain/mind functioning at 95 percent as I used to—more like 75 percent. As I sip my coffee, I warm up the ol’ ratiocinator for the day’s writing by perusing Quora and answering a few questions. [Read more] “the poor questioner might infer that I was judging him”
RESPONDING TO A QUESTION on Quora, I used my answer as the basis for a short article that I titled, “Conservatives Not Exactly Enthralled by Trump Are a Problem.” I was addressing what I assumed was a conservative individual who posted that some conservatives “aren’t exactly enthralled” with Trumps’ presidency.
The point of my piece was to take the questioner to task for so timid a response to Trump. [Read more] “can we call trump’s tweeted temper tantrums “tweetrums”?”