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Easy Sunday: The Donald Trump Body-Odor Meme

You ignore the Constitution, that's what.

Toddlers believe in Santa. Grown-ups believe in Trump.

IYKYK What's that?????

Jackson County, Oregon. An Update on the Charter Update

"Collapsing into a cesspool of ruin"

All I want for Christmas

Easy Sunday: Nativity Scene

We hold these truths to be self evident

Years to live

Stop a moment. Notice Daylight.

Age 35. Born in USA. Not involved in an insurrection.

Thoughts and prayers

TikTok election in Guatemala

Left-Right. Blue-Red

Nuggets of joy after long dark nights

Sausage on the southern border

Rediscovering Kamala Harris

Texas abortion stupidity

U.S. is number one in oil production.

Fix Jackson County Charter

Easy Sunday: Fake electors face the wheel of justice.

College presidents flub oral exam

County politics: Josephine County again

How to deal with a jerk.

Trump: Sunk cost.

Image of God

A strategy of outrageous behavior

Easy Sunday: Goodbye to The New Yorker in print.

The thin veneer of civilization

Last night's "debate": Unwatchable

Newsom vs. DeSantis: A prediction in advance of tonight's "debate."

Charter Update: County Commissioner Salaries

Upcoming events: Thursday evening

Media bias.

Who killed JFK?

Easy Sunday, Part Two

Easy Sunday, Part One: Thanksgiving greetings from a stable genius.

District Attorney backs charter update group.

Jackson County responds: No.

Is this blog "Media"?????

Here is the corrected title: Jackson County resists sharing Commissioner salary data.

Jackson County resists sharing commissioner salary data.

Charter Change: Populism in Josephine County, Oregon

Alternative Alternative Facts

Rosalynn Carter in Southern Oregon

Easy Sunday: Bring it on.

Southern Oregon news: Jackson County charter update

The Glenn Younkin insurgency.

Yet more trouble: Joe Manchin

More trouble.

Trouble.

Vermin in America

Easy Sunday: Believing is seeing.

The new norm: "Votes don't work."

Joe Manchin makes a move

What happened last night: GOP debate

What Happened Last Night

A party re-alignment is under way.

U.S. oil production hits all-time high

Easy Sunday: Oh-oh.

It is patriotic to pay one's taxes

Democrats are pushing Hispanic voters toward Trump

Pac 12: Going, going, gone.

I thanked and encouraged Chris Christie

Write in Joe Biden

Mike Pence campaign: RIP

The Dean Phillips campaign for president: A bad idea.

Democrats freak out

Procedural Radicalism

GOP: Right turn.

Young people live in a different world.

Good job, Joe.

"Electric Vehicles are not symbols."

Easy Sunday: Asymmetry.

Choice overload in New Hampshire

Vineyard: End of growing season

I suspect this is the end for Tim Scott's campaign.

No comment.

The Jim Jordan problem

Biden's good week. Trump's bad one.

Ramaswamy speaks to GOP "Leadership."

Easy Sunday: I ask a question of Chris Christie

Who is Niki Haley?

Israel: Be strategic

Tragedy of the commons

Revenge: Hot and sweet.

Harvard: We, the undersigned student organizations. . . .

New Hampshire candidate events

Easy Sunday: Taylor Swift

Jobs report: Good is bad.

Congressional dysfunction

Trump as superhero.

"God help us."

Hitler succeeded Hindenburg, age 89, upon his death.

Restoration of the Russian Empire

Greater Medford Multicultural Fair

Biden: Chairman of the Board. Or Head Coach

Meanwhile, children in Venezuela are starving to death

Request of old-school sane Republicans

GOP debate last night

Joe Biden picked a side.

If Trump wins

"The most flawed person."

Easy Sunday: Don't normalize corruption

The electric vehicle vibe

Steadfast for principle

Choice. It's a winning idea.

Catastrophes around the corner

Poor sad Mike Pence.

Pause a moment.

Easy Sunday: Political Tourism in New Hampshire

The Grand Old Party is Dead

Ironies. More ironies.

Advice to Biden: Challenge Trump to a duel.

Presidential wisdom and character matter.

Un-edited eight minutes.

Two elephants in the room

AHA! Ideas change.

Easy Sunday: Short form video

Are Trump's lawyers in serious trouble?

Long shot. No regrets. Your turn.

Drowning in a red sea: A Democrat runs for Congress in Oregon's 2nd Congressional District

Crime. Punishment. Deterrence.

Elites north of Richmond

Anchoring victory.

Easy Sunday: "Tennis anyone?"

Fox News: A guided tour

Doug Burgum took a shot.

Oh-oh. Mitch McConnell froze up again.

Question for readers.

Close up: Postal Service Reorganization, continued

Body language only. No sound.

Easy Sunday: A flash of body language

Mug shot

In praise of parody.

Quick takes on the GOP debate

High Noon and The Magnificent Seven

Parody songs: The music recycles.

Understanding the Trump voter

Easy Sunday: 1967, The summer of love.

What kills us.

Rosalynn Carter. Thanks.

Jewish Homeland

Not "free speech." Crimes.

"I don't know."

An incident in small town America

Easy Sunday: The 100th Meridian

Straight talker

Photo headers on this email.

Close Up: Reorganizing the Postal Service

Covid assessment: A physician looks back.

Oppenheimer: Collateral Damage

"The tragedy of Michael Pence."

Mental health: Report from a treatment facility

Easy Sunday: A judge's instruction. A defendant's response.

"Meritocracy" brought us Trump

I have soured on Elon Musk

Deceitful and criminal? Or merely delusional?

At long last.

Samuel Alito: graceless and tone deaf

Women rule

Easy Sunday: "Who ARE those guys?"

An apology, for Hunter Biden

Familiarity breeds attachment.

Hunter Biden deal blows up. Good. Start over.

Creative Destruction

Double down on being bad.

So uncomfortable. So VERY uncomfortable.

Easy Sunday: "Try that in a Small Town."

False promise. False hope.

A brand expert gives advice to Biden

A brand expert gives advice to Biden

Navigating death

The big picture in Europe

Easy to be hard

Spheres of influence

Easy Sunday: Guest Post by Benjamin Franklin

Biden. New and Improved!

Bidenomics

Guest Post: Legacy Admissions are unfair.

Alma Mater: Legacy Advantage in Harvard Admissions.

An alternative to distrust

War and Peace in Ukraine. War is good business.

War and Peace in Ukraine: Part Two of Three

Easy Sunday: Idleness is wisdom

War and Peace in Ukraine: Part One of Three

Alma Mater: Legacy advantage in college admissions, part two.

Alma Mater: Legacy Advantage in Harvard admissions

Vineyard Update

The Colorado Website Designer Case: Correctly Decided.

The Colorado website designer case: Wrongly decided.

Easy Sunday: A boy, a dog, a puddle

Final Solution

Wedge: teaching race and gender

Something actionable to do

Guest Post: Tax the Rich

Show off.

Reparations for the descendants of slaves

Easy Sunday: Gentleman Farmer

"The natives are getting restless."

Saudi golf. From sand dunes to sand traps.

No good deed goes unpunished

Tax audits. Bring them on: Part Two

Tax audits. Bring them on: Part One

Driving while Black. Governing while Trump

Easy Sunday: Two jokes about education and jobs

Life expectancy, by the numbers

Friends, Romans, Countrymen. . .

Win by losing.

Peace in Ukraine

War in Ukraine

Trump can't let go

Easy Sunday: Spoiled child.

Too much news. I am going to chill out and deal with my vineyard.

Chris Christie? Yes. Chris Christie.

It can't happen here

Trouble: Cornel West Announcementg

Made in America -- by robots

Trouble: Cornel West is a candidate

Replaying history

Easy Sunday: Vladimir Putin in hell

An up close report: A vineyard in progress.

Confirmation bias, confirmation blindness

"What's my motivation?"

A budget deal is a win for America. And for Biden

New York, New York

Gave their lives

Easy Sunday: Obama and Trump side by side

Decoration Day: Rest in Peace

Lexington and Concord: A well-regulated militia

Request of readers.

"Support the team, Peter."

I am jealous of Republicans. Candidates are stepping up.

The brain is a neural network, whatever that is.

Parental Rights: The GOP has dug in

Easy Sunday: Visiting Boston

Buy American

Medford School Board Vote: Follow-up

Good news on Medford school vote

The Un-cola vs. the Real Thing

Guns: Empowered self-reliance

How artificial intelligence learns

Easy Sunday: A sunny day in Portland.

AI thinks, therefore it is

Normalizing deviance

Report from California

The price of food

Biden: Time to say goodbye.

Sleight of hand

Easy Sunday: Tradition

I watched 90 seconds of King Charles' coronation

Shemia Fagan's side-gig deal looked bad. She resigned as Secretary of State.

Electric Utility Franchise Fee Increase

A Trump supporter writes me

Medford School Board

Nikki Haley could win

"Irredeemably Stupid."

Easy Sunday: Big brother is coming!

Lucky coincidence

It's Trump's Party

Quick take: Nikki Haley in New Hampshire

Guns everywhere, all at once

Report from Idaho -- Forest Service Ethics

A quick note: Nikki Haley takes issue

Political Tourism in New Hampshire

You gotta' laugh

A Massachusetts Catholic goes to Texas

Handguns. A correction.

A gun in hand, continued

A gun in hand

Culture of corruption

Dominion Settlement

"Reckless disregard" of the truth

Stop the trans panic: A Guest Post

Easy Sunday: Live and Learn

Human at conception

Caesar's wife.

The not-so-good old days

I didn't see it coming

Downsize? No. I have too much stuff.

It's a dog-eat-dog world.

Jesus: The Advertising Executive

It just gets worse.

The abortion issue won't go away

It's OK to prosecute the rich, famous, and powerful.

Home Rule in Washington, D.C.

The Passion of Donald Trump

Anti-Semitic code

Not so Easy Sunday, this time

Cool your jets.

Death with Dignity

Each political party has a vulnerability: Principle

Surprise!!!

Risks to watch out for

Sloths, Idleness, and time for repose and reflection

Easy Sunday: Taking it slow

Palookaville

The Stormy Daniels flub

Gavin Newsom: A Californian's perspective

Systemic double standard

Abortion prediction

Chris Rock: "How not to get your ass kicked by the police."

Easy Sunday: Whitewashing American history

A brand expert looks at Fox

Report from deep into Florida

The liberal case for a big new jail in Jackson County, Oregon

The boring problem of bank regulations

Dick Fosbury, Innovator

Bailout

Easy Sunday: Hours of Sunlight

Hush money to Stormy Daniels

I can't stop him

Abortion pills

Fox is crazy like a fox.

Public Service, continued: Peace Corps

Museum of Public Service

Easy Sunday: Cunk on Earth, on Netflix

Feedback Loop

"Banana Republic"

Profits are good

Mental templates.

Snow.

"Joe Biden's tenuous legitimacy"

Pretext and willful blindness

Easy Sunday: Athletes

My Oregon: Settler Colonialism

Train wreck in Ohio

Does AI Chat love me? Another view.

Does AI Chat love me?

The optics of showing up

Presidents Day: Jimmy Carter

Easy Sunday: Idle Moments

Revelation: Fox News texts

The Artificial Intelligence Era.

Nikki Haley is missing her best shot

Black History in Florida

Report from Florida

What did Biden mean?

Easy Sunday: Super Bowl

A moment of misunderstanding and understanding

End Social Security and Medicare? Unthinkable.

Christian nationalism

My overnight take on the State of the Union speech

A second newspaper is up and running.

I'm not afraid of a Chinese spy balloon.

Who can use the name "Tribune"?

Memories of a Newspaper Man

Easy Sunday Newspaper War: "We got one! We hired a reporter!!!"

Trump: "ASHLI BABBITT WAS MURDERED!!!"

Cultivate a garden

More newspaper progress

Local newspaper update

"Dr. Fauci made out like a bandit"

Damar Hamlin is alive.

Easy Sunday. Dispatcher: "Do you need police, fire, or medical?"

Southern Oregon News update: Judge Joe Charter retires/resigns.

"Candy girl, won't you come out tonight."

Unequal opportunity

Game Theory: Burn it Down

AI text is text built to a formula

Sample Number Two: Artificial Intelligence writes a blog post

Sample Number One: Artificial Intelligence writes a blog post

Equality, Equity, and Wokeness

Easy Sunday: Robot

Debt Ceiling Default Disaster

Guest Post: "Why I fight wokeness."

"The Embrace" sculpture in Boston

Remembering Joe Biden

The Daily Courier makes us an offer we shouldn't refuse.

What would Jesus do?

Easy Sunday. Local news reports election fraud

Whipsaw.

The Mail Tribune's last day

Local Newspaper Shuts Down

Stock Market returns

Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed

Brazilian mirror

Easy Sunday: Hakeem Jeffries' A-to-Z

Do you file an honest tax return?

Schadenfreude

Turning points

Faces build. Heels destroy.

Ukraine endgame

Ukraine Endgame

Waiting for a Democratic leader

Easy Sunday. Here.