January 15, 2025

The incredible lightness of being Tim Kaine

Senator Tim Kaine, losing Democrat vice presidential candidate in 2016, seized his opportunity to strut his stuff in Tuesday’s confirmation hearing of Pete Hegseth.  I must admit to being surprised by his less than senatorial appearan...

October 31, 2024

Subprime Kamala, subprime Joe

Kamala Harris is the political correlative of the infamous mortgage derivative products — the CDOs, or Collateralized Debt Obligations — spotlighted by Michael Lewis in The Big Short.  In that book, Lewis analyzes the conditions...

December 6, 2022

The Ghostly Traces of COVID

The archaeology of COVID persists. Outside this acquatic center, on the concrete sidewalks and expanses that surround the pool buildings, are the fading spray-painted X’s that once pinned in-bound swimmers to a “safe” spot, attempti...