Actual malice, meet demonstrable truth
…not long after Joe Biden had been officially declared the winner of [the 2020 presidential] election, a bunch of disreputable right-wing sore losers—that’s the technical term—began to claim that the...
View ArticleThe Stakes
“The system” is finally catching up with the non-stop stream of lawbreaking by the former guy and his collaborators that aimed at upending the legal result of the 2020 presidential election. They were...
View ArticleThe real RINOs
Today’s Republican Party claims to be the only truly patriotic, fully America-loving and God-fearing political party in the country, the one that will protect regular America-loving and God-fearing...
View ArticleSame song, next verse
When I was a college student in the capital city of Texas, the mayor once held his regular weekly news conference and was asked to comment on the fact that the state legislature was about to begin...
View ArticleTick tick tick
Most of the people I know are tired of talking about you know who, the former president who does dare to speak his name. I know I am, despite the evidence that indicates I am lying to myself and to...
View ArticleA little something for the holidays
Let’s play a holiday game: I’ll describe someone we all know without using their name, and you see if you can guess who I’m talking about. Crybaby. Coward. Liar. Loser. Cheater. YES! You got...
View ArticleWe all saw it; we know what happened
“[Today marks] three years since thousands of Americans, lied to by the president of the United States and their elected representatives, perpetrated an assault on the building that has come to...
View ArticleCourting trouble for the former guy
Former President I Will Not Be Ignored got a little more of what he’s been begging for yesterday: attention from our nation’s judicial system. In response to his ridiculous-on-its-face insistence that...
View ArticleI have hope. Is that misplaced?
Sometimes this blog receives comments which deserve space to breathe. This one is from an old friend of mine: Pascal Piazza and I met on the first day of the 9th grade, at our alphabetically-assigned...
View ArticleNo reservations on the crazy train
In the Unofficial Pat Ryan Register of All Things Known and Unknown, there is recent high concern that Donald Trump has dementia. Or is just batshit crazy. One or the other is used to explain some of...
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