The night they came for the celery

The night they came for the celery

Well, my grandchildren, it all began many years ago with that AOC woman. She got herself elected back when Trump was president. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She mounted an attack on cauliflower.  Called it a colonial-type vegetable. Reckoned it was racist, and all...
The night they came for the celery

Kill that good news!

 “I’m still ugly,” sniffed the young woman. Her words come to mind when good news about our economy emerges. They were part of a talk by a famous motivational speaker. He made a simple point: How we see reality depends on what lenses we choose to look through....
The night they came for the celery

Just a couple of dunces

A few key things to keep in mind in this trade war with China.   1. We are the customer and China has shafted us. 2. China needs us more than we need China. In 2000 we welcomed China into the international trading community. We made it official by an act of...
The night they came for the celery

How little we know

As you know, the President’s tax returns are the scandal du jour. The New York Times just revealed some of his tax info from 30 years ago. Suppose you complain about Trump’s tax returns. There is every chance the folks who prepared them would say you don’t know what...
The night they came for the celery

Bend over and say ‘ahhhh’ please

Doctors probably use medical analogies to discuss the big Mueller investigation. The investigators performed an annual physical from hell. On President Trump and his associates. They ordered x-rays, pet scans, MRI’s, blood work, endoscopies and colonoscopies. They...