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These are the kinds of words that Americans yearn to hear

I’m a harsh critic when it comes to speeches and monologues. I often hear that a speech is “amazing” or “remarkable” or “inspiring,” only to be let down by something that fails to reach the level of the shouted superlatives.  This is not the case. Anderson Cooper’s brief monologue in response to Trump’s disgusting, indecent,…

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Republican Congressmen threaten female Senators with violence. This is not normal.

In the last three days, Republican men in the House have threatened their female Senate colleagues with shooting and beating. ON MSNBC, Rep. Buddy Carter said on Lisa Murkowski: “Somebody needs to go over there to that Senate and snatch a knot in their ass.” Apparently, “snatch a knot in their ass” means to hit…

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We knew exactly what we were getting.

Perhaps you’ve heard about or even read Donald Trump’s recent tweets targeting Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. Disgusting personal attacks on a woman’s physical appearance that are, according to photographic evidence from the evening in question, untrue.  In a series of two connected tweets about that night, he managed to categorically lie…

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