Dear President Trump, This morning on my run it was dark. There was a raised part of the sidewalk I didn't see and I went down hard. Fortunately I didn't break anything but I'm quite banged up and it looks like someone punched me in the mouth with rough sandpaper taped to their fist. It … Continue reading Deals with Devils don’t leave much for the rest of us
Thank you, Mr. McConnell, for being so upfront
Dear President Trump, You have a lot of people doing a lot of things for you. Spicer is your mouthpiece, channeling you and saying uninformed, inflammatory stuff to keep things chaotic and off-topic. Bannon is your local shadowy homunculus, master-minding the narratives and keeping you on point with your attacks and misdirections. Kushner is your … Continue reading Thank you, Mr. McConnell, for being so upfront
Lizard brains
Dear President Trump, There's an awful lot in the news lately about infighting and tensions within your administration. I imagine you are feeling stressed and frustrated, and scared. I imagine you all are feeling these ways as your crooked house of cards folds in on itself. One of the crappy things about being an untrustworthy … Continue reading Lizard brains
How will YOU personally benefit?
Dear President Trump, I just read a short piece on the “Fourth Turning” and Bannon’s fascination with the thesis that history cycles predictably and that we are headed toward an inevitable fracturing of society that will require some sort of visionary superman to navigate through the chaos. I’m not going to dignify the 4th-turning ideas … Continue reading How will YOU personally benefit?
Why does your contact page care what my name is?
Dear President Trump, I paused for a few minutes after opening the site to send you a message to read something on another site and when I got back, the "First Name" box was outlined in bold red lines and the text read "FIRST NAME FIELD IS REQUIRED." There wasn't an exclamation point, but it … Continue reading Why does your contact page care what my name is?
We are on to you two
Dear President Trump, I'm relieved other people with much more visibility than I'll ever have are asking out loud why you made such a dramatic turn-around in bombing Syria and whether it was motivated by a desire to put distance between your White House and Russia. I was feeling worried yesterday morning when most of … Continue reading We are on to you two
How vigorously righteous you look
Dear President Trump, You are getting a lot of props for launching nearly 60 missiles at an air base in Syria. All sorts of people are coming out saying you did the right thing by taking powerful action that communicates a strong message to Assad and also to Iran and North Korea. How vigorously righteous … Continue reading How vigorously righteous you look
Scared witless, early to middle-stage dementia, or both
Dear President Trump, For the most part I have avoided watching your press conferences or reading your speeches and interviews. They are so painful to witness because I disagree with you on the content so profoundly and I find them embarrassing. Yesterday though, I ended up watching your press conference with King Abdullah and reading … Continue reading Scared witless, early to middle-stage dementia, or both
The lure of impersonal violence
Dear President Trump, This morning I included in my loving-kindness blessings the young African student featured in the NYT yesterday who was attacked and beaten by a mob in India and then I included the people in the mob who attacked him. Thinking about the individuals who comprised the mob led me to consider how … Continue reading The lure of impersonal violence
If Hillary had won…
Dear President Trump, It remains to be seen whether there will be hard evidence confirming that you and your campaign colluded with Russia to throw the election (or elections). It's looking that way but we'll see. Should it come to pass that such evidence is uncovered I will be hard pressed to say which downstream … Continue reading If Hillary had won…
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