22 Apr, 2017
Happy Earth Day
“It was 21 years ago today I awoke in the middle of the night, got my co-actor up, then roused...
17 Apr, 2017
Mad bombers just so 20th century
“Bombing is dumb. The Age of Destruction is a foolish logic. Mother Nature is offended and is showing us that...
12 Apr, 2017
Murdering martyrs: This too shall pass
“On Palm Sunday, suicide bombers detonated themselves at two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt, killing 44 and wounding 126…” James...
17 Mar, 2017
Job-killing president
“Trump’s budget is out, his Trumpcare bill is introduced, and between them they are astonishingly stupid and promise-breaking. Featured are...
7 Mar, 2017
Find the adults and get them in the room
“Trump attacks others, from the Pope to Gold Star families, on a routine basis, often based on no evidence, exaggerated...
29 Jan, 2017
Lurching backward
“We are now officially in a New Age of Chaos, created by Donald Trump and his close advisors. Who ever...
20 Jan, 2017
January 20, 2017, a day that will live in ignominy
“Donald J. Trump has been inaugurated as the 45th President of the US. If you are a xenophobic isolationist nationalist,...
15 Dec, 2016
TrumPutin: jobs, security, and buyer’s remorse
“Donald Trump is bringing jobs back! Well, OK, he is saving jobs!” Tom H. Hastings Published in: RICentral, Nation of...
25 Nov, 2016
Read my apocalypse: Dead reckoning
“The Ship of State—especially that of the United States—may have begun as a lithe and limber craft back in the...
13 Nov, 2016
No
“Is Donald Trump a Hitler nouveau? Probably not. Still, in this time of preparing a switch from mild, articulate…” Tom...
3 Nov, 2016
Cop Killers and Trump
“When you hear that a police officer was ambushed and shot to death, what is your first image? For many...
30 Oct, 2016
Supremes, the Senate and the Dirty Donalds, Segretti to Trump
“OK, the Republicans said when Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away late last winter, we are not going to...
24 Oct, 2016
Bad Hombre
“Watching the 2016 campaign is hypnotically akin to the gawker slowdown that affects traffic with the slightest accident.” Tom H....
12 Oct, 2016
Negative coattails good for Senate
“Donald Trump is in love. Like any narcissist, he sees his heart’s desire in the mirror and is pathologically incapable...
6 Oct, 2016
Rethinking killing civilians
“When challenged about airstrikes that kill civilians—whether from drones or jets with “smart” ordnance—the excuses given…” Tom H. Hastings Published...