Dear President Trump, This morning I noticed a little rough patch in the plastic retainer I have to wear to shift that tooth that is out of whack since I fell last year. For what seemed like a long time my tongue couldn’t leave that one spot alone, finding the anomaly far more interesting than … Continue reading Threat detection and the many ways it can go wrong
Month: February 2018
Memo Mess
Dear President Trump, The Huffington Post seems to be on to you, thank goodness. You have to scroll down a ways, but they are running an article pointing out how several conservative news sites were leaked the Nunes memo before it was officially released, which all but confirms that the point was really to provide … Continue reading Memo Mess
Some good news
Dear President Trump, Fortunately today the WP folks started calling out the cynical underpinnings of Devin N’s memo and your rousing endorsement of it. WP columnist Max Boot pointed out that the memo is really about making sure you have 34 GOP Senators willing to vote “no” should impeachment proceedings be initiated against you after … Continue reading Some good news
Love is love
Dear President Trump, It’s nice to see a few Republican congress people showing some backbone and putting a sliver of a wedge between themselves and you regarding Devin N’s memo and what it does and doesn’t mean for the Russia investigation. It is confusing, though, that Gowdy, who apparently helped draft the memo, is now … Continue reading Love is love
“Ass or Gas”
Dear President Trump, Yesterday on my way home from church I saw a sticker in the back window of a pick-up truck that showed two universal stick figures and a gas pump. The words that were big enough for me to read from a distance were “Ass or Gas”. Apparently I live under a rock … Continue reading “Ass or Gas”
Treason 101
Dear President Trump, I suppose one plus of your presidency is that we now have so very many reasons to want (and need) to revisit old civics and government lessons. For example, reading Derek Hawkins’s history lesson on treason this morning in the WP I learned that the constitution framers were careful to delineate treason … Continue reading Treason 101
You do not get to win this
Dear President Trump, This week I’ve felt even more impacted than usual by your “Shock and Benumb” tactics. “Oh, he’s saying he’d love the government to shut down so he can blame the Democrats.” Hmm. Shrug. “Gosh, the stock market is thrashing around and there’s just the sound of crickets emanating from the White House.” … Continue reading You do not get to win this
A handy tool of mass destruction
Dear President Trump, Where to begin? You know how in the “olden days” when people (mostly white people) thought it was just fine to dump all their sewer and garbage in whatever waterway they happened to be near or over the edge of a cliff not too far away? Well, aside from this still being … Continue reading A handy tool of mass destruction
Domestic violence is rightly part of the conversation now
Dear President Trump, I haven’t seen the pictures yet of you sitting at your pristine (no-real-work-ever-gets-done) desk signing the budget, but I’m sure those images will make the rounds. What we won’t see are the lumps in the rug and the straining closet doors where you hid the mess. And I bet there was more … Continue reading Domestic violence is rightly part of the conversation now
People do look to you
Dear President Trump, Sadly, even though most adults in the US know not to invest any time wondering why you are so one-sided in your defense of Rob Porter, there are still millions of people, chief among them Republican women, who are probably deeply, negatively affected by it. They look to you as their Leader-in-Chief … Continue reading People do look to you
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