February 2025

Trump looking dumb, Zelensky looking resigned

You cannot deny Trump’s enthrallment any more I don’t know how to express the depth of my disappointment and disgust with the display in the Oval Office today.  It reminded me of nothing less than a doddering, wilfully uninformed grandfather lecturing his grandson about the younger man’s ingratitude for the revocation of his inheritance. Meanwhile, […]

Smiling boy with hand in cookie jar

The problem with lies from Trump or other authoritarian leaders is that others believe them, or worse, act as if they believe the lies. That’s why we see people like US Secretary of State Marco Rubio revising his statements on Ukraine because they contradicted his president’s previous lie. It was so refreshing, so uplifting to […]