Trump’s current behaviour is so bizarre that it has become the chief talking point at very meeting and every dinner party. His inopportune and cruel sacking of Jim Comey, head of the FBI, has had a dozen explanations, all contradictory, from the White House. So, for the benefit of non-American readers the following is a …
I like quoting bits from the Patriotic Millionaires press releases because people ought to know that every millionaire is not a selfish, greedy elitist monster. Aside from anything else it does help to encourage the downhearted. It is also Epicurean at heart. This is their latest message: President Trump spent his entire campaign criticizing Wall …
The other night we attended a concert given by two very well-known pianists, who played an unfinished piece by Mozart (fine), but, in addition two works by Stravinsky and Debussy, both relatively unknown and astonishing for their lack of imagination or a glimmer of melody,just endless loud noise. I put my earplugs in. We left …
Reflect upon the Walmart tax, the hidden levy American taxpayers pay to subsidize the always low wages America’s largest retailer pays out. These wages are so low that many Walmart workers have to depend on food stamps, Medicaid, and subsidized housing to get by. U.S. taxpayers are paying $169.8 million annually for the public assistance …
Yesterday my wife and I joined the Climate Change march in Washington DC. Great cries of “shame” rang out ss we marched past the Trump Hotel in the 91 degree hèat, an all-time high for April 29th. A man dressed in a huge polar bear outfit had to be escorted away from the crowd after …
