Wayward Landlubber

                                      LIBERALS, TOLERANT NO LONGER. The left wing has been assumed to be the tolerant left. It is not a difficult standard when compared to the example set by those in the dark underground of the GOP. More recently that dark underground has been solidly above ground, illuminated by the klieg lights of arrogance and ignorance. As of Jan. 22, 2025, 1500 of those inhabiting the dark underground have been pardoned. Just 2.5 days after the new president was sworn in. Some of us lefties, perhaps many, or most of us, are no longer tolerant. Republicans have been abusive partners for too long and we will no longer tolerate this abuse of power. Perhaps we should have done this long ago,when Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the House, or even when Republicans refused to sanction Trump for his insurrection with anything stronger than tepid words. But we didn't. Tolerance is a ...

                 DAVID BROOKS IS HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS David Brooks has long been a New York times columnist. During all of that time, with the exception of recently, with the first Trump administration, Columnist Brooks has been a happy right wing polemicist. He is no longer happy. Not with his Republican party. Not with Trump, not with the quality of thought on display in Republican polemics today. One Whitehouse staffer actually said that, “we are building the rocket as we launch it.” Irony is lost on the Republican party. It is not lost on David Brooks and it must have him chewing antacids like chocolate kisses. Mr. Brooks now sees himself as a Democratic party centrist. He is like the hiker who sits on a nest of ants, surrounded by poison oak, with other unseen dangers awaiting, unsure where to go next. I’m sorry for him. Like John McCain in the 1990s, he has watched his party move too rapidly towards respect for dictatorship. Or in...