Her grandfather avoids politics “because we got burned by Eugene McCarthy.” His 20-something granddaughter has traveled here for the past several weeks to campaign for Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont. The Asian-American California girl (anyone the age of my granddaughters is a girl) attended last Friday’s Democratic Party Virginia Demmler Dinner at the Downtown Reno … [Read more...]
Weekly outrage, cheers for Sanders and fraudulent voter ID
British actor Benedict Cumberbatch rightly detests cellphones and cameras being punched and flashed while he is acting. The Digital Age has long since become the Insensitive and Discourteous Age. During his recent performance of “Hamlet” at the Barbican in London, Cumberbatch was about to deliver the “To be or not to be” soliloquy when a red light flashed from the third … [Read more...]
Washington mess gets messier
Last week Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination received a powerful one-two punch to the abdomen. The first blow came when it was revealed that her opponent in the primary, Bernie Sanders, surpassed her in the latest New Hampshire poll. The second came when she had to respond to a request to turn over her email server to the FBI. In response to … [Read more...]