It’s a phenomenon, a rare moment in American history. It hasn’t happened before in quite the same way. Oh, there have been others, to be sure, but this time it’s different. Most of the United States of American is affected. But, there is no reason to be frightened. The moment of darkness won’t last long, as these things go. It’ll be over before you know it, just a distant memory. The eclipse is cool, too.

There was something that didn’t happen last weekend in Charlottesville, something that provides a clue to “both sides,” as trump put it. “Both sides,” the demonstrators and the counter-demonstrators, were armed but nobody pulled their gun and started firing. Virginia is an open carry state. It could’ve happened. It didn’t. Yes, a woman was killed and several were injured by an assassin with a car, but we in Connecticut especially know what widespread carnage and grief can be

Boy, the haters have really lost it. There was time when they’d come thundering into town on horseback with torches soaked in flaming gasoline. Now they come in holding tiki torches and wearing white golf shirts. They look like waiters at Applebee’s. The days of non-violent counter protests are over. If the extremist hate groups think they can march in to a town and defame it like they have in the past, well, they better examine whatever fecal matter is inside their thick sku

...well, ratings for the 24-hour news channels for one thing. Distracting us from Special Prosecutor Bob Mueller’s investigation of trump is another. The media notwithstanding, there will be no hot war with N. Korea. What’s going on is an escalation of bullshit between two world leaders who are simply full of it. In fact, there are back channel negotiations going on. The risk is greatest for N. Korea. It would be quite simple for trump to destroy it if he doesn’t mind sacrifi

It’s instructive to see one of trump’s lies up close and how he mixes truth and fabrication. His latest Tweet about Sen. Richard Blumenthal is a case in point. Yes, during an election campaign Blumey said he served in Vietnam. Yes, he lied. Yes, he apologized in an embarrassing moment. No, he did not cry “like a baby.” He didn’t cry at all. He said he was sorry and the veterans and voters of Connecticut forgave him enough to vote him into office time and time again. Why did