Guest Commentary

I am willing to listen to pro-Trumpers.  Up to a point.  Some suggest, in his defense, that Trump left office willingly; well, that adverb blows everything else out of the swamp. It should be clear that Trump did EVERYTHING he could to leave UNwillingly.

The Russian dissident leader has just landed in Moscow. If you are just catching up, he had been poisoned by Putin’s Pootches (George W called him Pootie Poot, GW giving nicknames, a la Trump who called Michael Moore “Sloppy Mike”, Moore jocundly saying that was the rare time DJT spoke the truth.) 

Let us not speak of politics; let us speak of...politics.

I came here in 1970 to hide out in the woods and think my great thoughts and write my great work(s). By ‘72 I realized that hiding was impossible, at least for me. And greatness? That would have to wait. (Still waiting.)

Ten days or so out from the Inauguration, as I write this, the gods only know what will happen next.  But one thing is sure, when you anger the righteous titans at the Wall Street Journal, it may be time for you to surrender the last of your thunderbolts, realize you are not Zeus after all and slink off with the ambrosia of your Mickey D’s and t

Speaking of Dr. Jill Biden, and aren’t we all, it is good to remind all that the word doctor has as its etymology “to teach.” This is in response to the buffoonish Opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal chiding her for using the honorific, which should only be used by people who have delivered babies.

Dear EarthTalk: What are the best Instagram feeds to follow lately if I’m into environmental activism and fighting climate change?

— Bill S., New Orleans, La.

Dear SuperSpreaders,

This may strike some as preaching to the converted, as my anger comes through. I would say I am preaching to the Unconverted. Jeremiah I am not, but here goes a try.

Catholics everywhere.