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The Reluctant Republican

As Life Comes to Greet Them

Meanwhile

Me and Hugh (or Maybe It Should Be "Hugh and I")

Fourteen Days

Melissa and Mark Hortman

We, the Five Million

Imagined Conversations

The Foppish King Sings "Just Stand Down" (to the tune of "You'll Be Back" from Hamilton)

As We Take to the Streets

America, at War

If This Is What We Have Become

Of Patriots and Protesters

Humpty and Dumpty

The Eulogist

America, America, God What's Become of Thee. We've Shed Our Good, Our Brotherhood. In Fear of What We See

A Matter of Life and Death

TACO Bell

Trump Declares China a Danger

Money Can't Buy You Love

Democracy vs Fascism

The Dilemma

An Edited Version of My Earlier Post, "Harvard - A Four Letter Word" Is Scheduled to Appear in Letters to the Editor in the New York Times

The Opening of a Wound

Memorial Day in the DSA

Hanging In Mid-Air

Why I Envy Those Who Support Mr. Trump

Harvard- A Four Letter Word

The Seat of Humiliation

Of Uber Drivers and AJ Foyt

The Brooklyn Bridge Has Been Sold

What You Did For Bucks

The Talent Show

A Long Night's Journey Into Day

Birthright or Birth Right Citizenship

This Is NOT a Joke (Well, It Is Intended as a Joke but It Is a TRUE Story)

The Inmate and the Keys to the Kingdom

A Visit from Dotsy

Stephen Miller Is Right

Press Release from the White House on the Election of the New Pope

Sweaty Palms, Racing Hearts and God

Never Say Never

$1000 and a Bag of Potato Chips

The Pilgrimage

Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? No.

Harvard, Cookie Monster and Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me

In Contemplation of That Word

Another Candid Interview with the President

Sanctuary Much and Taken Out of Service - Two Companion Posts to Three Executive Orders

100 Days ( The First and Maybe the Last)

Me and My Shadow

At the Parade

A Little Boy Is Coming Home

With A Pinch of Joe Biden Added for Good Measure

Slightly Faster

You Are Cordially Invited

Treating the Family

Eliminating Waste, Fraud and Abuse

The President and the Pea

A Birthday Selfie

Doable?

My Birthday Wish

Jailed

Huddled Masses

Rory

Dark and Damaged

Back In The Saddle Again

Of Snacks and Supreme Court Suggestions

A Little Yippy

The Best Thing About My Writing

A Hug

One Voice

Eulogy Given on the Passing of a Friend

The View from the Titanic

Chaos

The Food of Life (and Death)

Mr. Booker Goes to Washington

Barrel of the Bat Gate

The Plight of Jeffrey Goldberg

Why I Write About My Parents

Severance and Our Own Kier Eagan

Nobody Told Me (a John Lennon Song Re"imagined")

The Flash Mob

Spare Me the Shakespearean Angst

The Compliment

Taken Hostage - an edited version of this post is scheduled to appear in Letters to the Editor in the New York Times

George Foreman

A Runaway Train

In the Cross-Hairs

The "Club" Champion

The Phone Call

Awarding Style Points

The Most Important Equation of All

It Feels Like Surrender

The Car Salesman

Central Park

Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like

To My Most Dear Wife on Her Birthday

Disappearing Words

The King's English

An edited version of the earlier post "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" is scheduled to be published in Letters to the Editor in the Boston Globe

Musk-rats

The Enemy Within

Gone Today, Hair Tomorrow (Yankees Allow Beards)

Imagining the Darkside - A Sneak Preview of the Thoughts of Mr. Trump This Evening (Sent with Apologies)

And the Oscar Goes To

An Emperor With No Clothes

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

A Remarkable Guest Post from a Federal Employee

The New 90

Sisyphus

A Beacon Light Extinguished

Badman and Robbin Strike Again

51

The Story of Rachel Powell

What Did You Do At Work Last Week?

100

Homeless Now

The Subservient Gaggle

Trump Declares Andy Borowitz a Threat to the Nation

Dear Maestro

A Most Remarkable Comment to "Each In Our Own Way"

Each In Our Own Way

Greenland Is My Land

This condensed version of The Declaration of Independence now appears in The Berkshire Eagle

What's In a Name?

In Case There Was Confusion, The Version of "The Declaration of Independence" Posted Earlier Today Was Written Not by the Founding Fathers but by Me

The Declaration of Independence

Literally and Seriously

In the Clutches of the Monster

The Sounds of Silence

Trump Card - The Board Game

Winter Ends on February 12th

This Is What Democracy Looks Like

Adieu

A Man Walks Into a Police Station

A Tragedy to Exploit

Putin Applauds Trump for Invading America

Congress Declared in Recess until January 20, 2029

The Taking of America

Get Out!

Cold As ICE

An edited version of an earlier post (Capital Letters) is scheduled for publication in Letters to the Editor in the Boston Globe

Hey Google

To Sleep, Perchance to Dream

Capital Letters

Shock And Awful

In Anticipation of Tomorrow

Mind Games

American Swoon

I Am Sorry

To What End?

Failure to Launch

The MVP

Companies I Can No Longer Do Business With (although I should never end a sentence with a preposition)

Jeopardy

The Capitol Address

The Art of Returning Unwanted Amazon Packages

It Ends with a Whimper

My New Year's Resolution

Lincoln Weighs In

Mason's Pencils