Travel

Jesus on Route 66

"The divided highways offered speed, and gas, food, and lodging, but as we rolled through the hills of Kentucky and Tennessee on narrow state roads, even a child saw the culture and how the miles altered expressions of business and public art."

Trump

Is Anything Better?

Are you better off than you were a year and a half ago?

A Hot and Annoying Summer Forecast

Yeah, the political ads write themselves.

Texas Politics

Scatterlings of Texas

Sometimes it's a difficult love affair.

Culture

Endings

"I’m just going to go on record as saying: They’re lying. Let me just add one other thing... They’re lying weasels."

Trump

Oh, Just Shut Up and Play YMCA

After everything that's happened, it took THIS to wake Congress up?

national politics

Democans and Republicrats

JFK and Barry would be just a bit out of step.

environment

The First Cowboy Song

A ribbon of chip seal traces the U.S.-Mexico border through an archaeological landscape almost beyond time. Here, where civilization in North America arguably began, the federal government plans to build a wall — an insult to the history embedded in every layer of stone along the Rio Grande.

Israel

You've Got to be Carefully Taught

A lot of teaching going on right now.

Travel

Working

"Everyone who works in America believes in the mythology of the dream, that if they put in sufficient effort, they will be rewarded with success in the form of cash or comfort. Few people in this country have ever entertained the notion that our capitalism is a failed construct."

Trump

Flies With Honey

Does anyone think this is working?

Trump

Worshipping the Golden Jackasses

The boys who commissioned the statue and put money down couldn't seem to come up with the balance. The artist knew the administration's playbook all too well and hid the sculpture in a warehouse until the balance was delivered and the check cleared.

media

Yippee-Ki-Yay Wolf Blitzer!

After this, how many anchors and reporters can ABC and NBC hire?

Trump

Ben Gets Sassy

Why do we get the truth only at the point of death?

environment

The Autumn of Things

"There was reason to worry that there might be forces that outstripped the power of the Colorado. A short drive downstream, the Exxon oil corporation was investing a billion 1980 dollars to build a town on Battlement Mesa for workers it planned to hire for oil shale recovery."

Trump

Mayhem At The Nerd Prom

Ah, the conspiracies are multiplying like numbers on a gas pump.

International Politics

Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot

If only Tina Fey was in this one...

personal stories

the death of his first dog

It would be he and Fi. And they fell in love with each other. So did everyone else.

national politics

The Moon That Never Rose

We are no longer a shining city on a hill, but a society in measurable, documented decline. No rational person can consider our present circumstances and consider otherwise.

national politics

A Short Ode to Civility

All references to Sessue Hayakawa have been omitted.

Abbott

If Loving Texas is Wrong...

...I don't want to be right.

Religion

With God On Our Side

With apologies to Bob Dylan.

national politics

"S-s-h-h, This is Just Between Us, OK?"

Is no one risk averse anymore?

War

The Times They are A'Changin'

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Religion

From a Distance

"A species that is currently killing its own members over whose interpretation of God is correct is not ready to be told that the God question may need to be reopened from the very beginning."