Hammer Mill Days

Electrodes to power. Turbines to speed. Our sorry asses to perdition. Prepare for launch sequence start. Roger! Roger! Stay away from that engine nozzle! Man, that guy's an idiot. I don't understand how he ends up on every mission. Well, we're about to launch our spring Interstellar Tour, which we've dubbed the Ned Trek Live Springtime Extravaganza Tour 2019 . Not a moment too soon, I should add. It's getting pretty strange down here on planet Earth, and we'd just as soon watch the various developments from a safe distance of maybe 75 light years. From that remote prospect, all of the cares and woes of human kind are reduced to a mere point of light. A sobering thought ... unless you're drinking that basement hooch Mitch Macaphee has been working on recently. Not one of his better experiments. Speaking as someone who's about to embark on a perilous deep space excursion in a ramshackle craft, I can say I'm more afraid of imbibing that noxious beve...

The more I watch TV talk shows, the more I realize that they live and die by a simple maxim: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. That's the principle that puts John Brennan, Norman Podhoretz, Bill Kristol, Max Boot, and others of their ilk on centrist-liberal shows on MSNBC. I suppose it's not all that surprising that the election of Donald Trump would result in the rise of a lowest common denominator resistance, such that open-throated advocates of the Iraq War and other disasters have spent the last three years nursing their reputations back to health, hour by hour, on Morning Joe and other platforms. I'm not the first, certainly, to point out that the left suffers under reactionary presidents as the broad opposition tends to focus all their energy on defense of existing policies under attack, at the expense of breaking new ground. That's understandable ... but do we really have to make common cause with Bill Kristol? Really ? Well, it's worse than that. Bec...