Just a word about weed. Even though 30 states and D.C. have legalized marijuana in some form and almost two-thirds of Americans believe it should be legal, it’s still almost impossible to properly study because it’s classified as a Schedule I drug, which, by definition, means it has no medical value.

I remember, under George W. Bush, federal funding for public schools was tied to teaching abstinence-only sex education.

Tune into national or local news on any day and you’re bound to see another sad story about murder-suicide. It goes like this: Divorced Dad doesn’t like the court-ordered financial settlement or the custody arrangements or the fact that his wife, who he used to control, is no longer under his control, so he shows up on Christmas Eve and kills the whole family and himself. 

Let’s all stop saying, “collusion.”

There’s been a lot of talk about Steve Bannon in recent weeks, and the Breitbart empire, and it reminded me of something I know, and something some of my friends know, but is something that is rarely mentioned in the mainstream press.

The Trump reelection campaign dropped a new ad on Saturday. It’s called Complicit: “Build the wall. Deport criminals. Stop illegal immigration, now. Democrats who stand in our way will be complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants.”

“We have him.” That’s what attorney Leslie Abramson says in Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders when a witness says one thing on the stand and she finds an audiotape of him saying the exact opposite thing to a reporter.

If you read as many news sites as I do, it doesn’t matter what the subject is, eventually someone will write a think piece with a take that is 90 degrees, 180 degrees, and 270 degrees from what you think the take is.

When we talk about keeping the churches out of politics, we usually imagine a minister endorsing a candidate from the pulpit. But it’s bigger than that. If the Middle Class Tax Cut ™ gets signed into law, churches will become the ultimate weapon in money politics.

Mitch McConnell told The New York Times that the most important decision in his political career was denying Merrick Garland a vote, and “transforming the judiciary” is his number one legislative priority.

It turns out, according to Republican tax reform, a “loophole” is any tax deduction taken by a person.

As Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, Chris Christie has identified the real villain in the opioid crisis: Weed.

It’s funny how whenever someone suggests the government spend money to help regular people, it’s always dismissed as a pipe dream.

Trying to wrap your head around the devastation in Puerto Rico and other parts of the Caribbean is tough enough, but try to imagine how this situation plays out in the longer term and one can easily start to see how global warming could soon cause people to abandon these types of islands entirely.

For those Bernie Sanders voters who went for Trump in the general election, Republicans passed something last month that should make you feel really stupid. Mike Pence – a corporatist tool dressed as a man – cast the deciding vote on a bill that prevents consumers from suing their banks.

Remember when the worst thing Kanye West could say about the president was that he didn’t care about black people? Donald Trump cares a lot. He thinks about black people so much you wonder how he has time to golf.

One of the haunting things about Russia under Stalin was it was the dawn of Photoshop, and the Kremlin was constantly retouching official photographs to make people disappear. In the original picture Stalin has his arm around your shoulder, but then he kills you, and when it’s reissued he’s cuddling up to a dull patch of Leningrad sky.

Donald Trump is very, very excited about a new factory Taiwan’s Foxconn is building in Wisconsin. (In Paul Ryan’s district! What a coincidence!)

Last month, workers at a Nissan plant in Mississippi overwhelmingly voted not to join the United Auto Workers union. Bernie Sanders was fighting the good fight; he went down to Mississippi to march, he wrote op-eds, he talked up the vote on TV. But the union lost once again and, with UAW members now only building 54 percent of the cars and trucks manufactured in the U.S. (it was 85 percent in 1999), if things don’t change soon the union’s going to disappear altogether. 

The hardest thing, in America under Trump, is holding on to your outrage over the last indignity while new stock constantly arrives. We’re all Lucy at the conveyor belt of chocolates, except that ain’t chocolate.