A Quintessential Trump Indictment

April 3rd, 2023

By Bob Gaydos
Getting arrested because a porn star tried to shake him down and he had his lawyer pay her off to keep her mouth shut so he could steal an election and get to live in the White House? That’s a made-for-TV movie. That’s Trump’s entire life in a mini-series.

Treachery, Ageism and Devolution

March 26th, 2023

By Bob Gaydos
Catching up with other news while on Trump indictment watch: Holding hostages hostage for Reagan; Republican ageism; Power Slaps! and pornographic Michelangelo. Only in America.

Rupert, Don’t Call Me; I’ll Call You

March 16th, 2023

By Bob Gaydos
Rupert Murdoch displays a cynical disregard for the truth or the gullibility of his audience except when it suits his purpose.

Nothing Up Here but Us, Uh, Balloons

March 7th, 2023

By Bob Gaydos
Bottom line for the Pentagon? Don’t patronize people who want to know what the heck is roaming around our atmosphere and don’t act as if shooting down, never mind just seeing, a few UAPs or UFOs is no big deal. Local or interstellar, tell us what’s going on out there.

Old? Make That Bold Joe Biden

February 23rd, 2023

By Bob Gaydos
About that Joe Biden is too old to run for re-election column I wrote a little while back … I may have been a bit hasty. The “old” man just took the boldest, most dramatic act by an American president since, well, I can’t remember when.

Were Trump and lawyer in ‘Cahoots’?

February 17th, 2023

By Bob Gaydos
So Trump and or his lawyer(s) lied to the FBI. Did Corcoran know there were more documents? Did the other lawyer? Did Trump? Was Trump in Cahoots with one or both of them cooking something up?

America’s Week: Balloons and Buffoons

February 8th, 2023

By Bob Gaydos
Most critics of today’s Republican Party have been respectful enough of the usual norms of political discourse to avoid publicly saying what they really think about Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her ilk, who have mugged the party’s cowardly leaders through threats and retribution, turning it into a cabal of, well, in Sarah’s scenario, the not normal ones.

This Document has been Declassified

February 1st, 2023

By Bob Gaydos
Cry and try as Republicans might to make the Trump document story equivalent to Biden’s, it won’t fly.

After Dry January, Dry February?

January 25th, 2023

By Bob Gaydos
Alcoholics, or rather, those who insist they are not alcoholics, have been taking the post-holiday challenge forever in valiant efforts to prove to themselves and (mainly) others that they can control their drinking. Often, they’ve failed. Rehab February.

A City Boy’s Tips on Country Etiquette

January 13th, 2023

By Bob Gaydos
Country living means owls, woodpeckers, coyotes and starry skies, oh my. It’s nice. But it also has its own rules of the road, things a transplanted city boy should know.