Trump's reflecting pool fiasco is the perfect metaphor for the Washington swamp: a no-bid contract, handed to a Mar-a-Lago insider, followed by a predictable algae bloom that anyone who passed elementary school science could have seen coming. Darker surface = warmer water =green slime.
And, honestly, what did they expect from a company called 'Green Water Services"?
Now we have reports of dead birds in the pool. How long before we see conspiracies that the Radical Democrats planted them just to "make the president look bad"?
Mary- this is one of your essays where I felt the words flowing like clear water... perfectly smooth.
Re Medicaid fraud.....my mother years ago got a call from Medicare asking her if she had had a brain scan on a certain date. She had not. It appears that someone in the systems that were attached to her medical group was filing false reports. So this has been a problem for a very long time.
I liked your observations on the Democrats. I left the party after 40 years because of their treatment of Bernie Sanders (and the multiple objections I had to Hillary Clinton). I had hoped that the party would shape up and pull themselves out of the mire they have been for a long time, but it won't happen until the current top leadership goes away. And I include Barack Obama in that category. Everyone over as MSNOW were swooning over the smooth talk he gave at the opening to his new Center, while I sat there knowing that he had destroyed a major bird migratory sanctuary, cut down hundreds of old growth trees and paid the city of Chicago only $10 for Jackson Park... a property belonging to all the people of Chicago. Now there is concern that his foundation has put only $1 million in a fund to pay for the infrastructure costs that was promised to have hundred of millions in it so the taxpayers wouldn't have to foot those bills. He is just as elitist as the right wing class and certainly a hypocrite when it comes to the environment. A very good read on what happened to the Democratic Party is Listen Liberal by Thomas Frank.
There are some new Dems running for office in KY who have a lot of promise and I hope the party doesn't ruin them.
Thank you, Dian! Truthfully, I don't find much time, I just try not to pull my hair out while getting pulled in all the different directions a family will pull you while still trying to focus on the work in front of me. One small task at a time has always been my philosophy, rather than a project note that says "write essay" I use five or six project notes, "create title," "section one," "thesis," etc.
That's the way to go! And you must have a natural talent for "seeing" metaphors, both verbal ones, and those out in the real world. Keep up the good work; hope you'll publish a "collected works" someday.
So well written. Of all the travesties, the one most ominous is the radical Supreme Court majority’s continuing contempt for precedents, especially precedents that protect citizens and lawful residents from government abuses of power. If the MAGA-billionaire authoritarian coup succeeds, it will primarily be because of this Court’s complicity and corruption.
Trump's reflecting pool fiasco is the perfect metaphor for the Washington swamp: a no-bid contract, handed to a Mar-a-Lago insider, followed by a predictable algae bloom that anyone who passed elementary school science could have seen coming. Darker surface = warmer water =green slime.
And, honestly, what did they expect from a company called 'Green Water Services"?
Now we have reports of dead birds in the pool. How long before we see conspiracies that the Radical Democrats planted them just to "make the president look bad"?
Too late for that
"Green Water Services", OMG. 🤣
Mary- this is one of your essays where I felt the words flowing like clear water... perfectly smooth.
Re Medicaid fraud.....my mother years ago got a call from Medicare asking her if she had had a brain scan on a certain date. She had not. It appears that someone in the systems that were attached to her medical group was filing false reports. So this has been a problem for a very long time.
I liked your observations on the Democrats. I left the party after 40 years because of their treatment of Bernie Sanders (and the multiple objections I had to Hillary Clinton). I had hoped that the party would shape up and pull themselves out of the mire they have been for a long time, but it won't happen until the current top leadership goes away. And I include Barack Obama in that category. Everyone over as MSNOW were swooning over the smooth talk he gave at the opening to his new Center, while I sat there knowing that he had destroyed a major bird migratory sanctuary, cut down hundreds of old growth trees and paid the city of Chicago only $10 for Jackson Park... a property belonging to all the people of Chicago. Now there is concern that his foundation has put only $1 million in a fund to pay for the infrastructure costs that was promised to have hundred of millions in it so the taxpayers wouldn't have to foot those bills. He is just as elitist as the right wing class and certainly a hypocrite when it comes to the environment. A very good read on what happened to the Democratic Party is Listen Liberal by Thomas Frank.
There are some new Dems running for office in KY who have a lot of promise and I hope the party doesn't ruin them.
Oh wow...I just noticed that Stanley wrote this! Good job!
Thanks for skewering the Dems with your ver apt "fork" metaphor! So sad but true.
Your prose sparkles, as always, Shanley! Where do you find the time to write so well? Your articles have become a major "high point" of my day.
Thank you, Dian! Truthfully, I don't find much time, I just try not to pull my hair out while getting pulled in all the different directions a family will pull you while still trying to focus on the work in front of me. One small task at a time has always been my philosophy, rather than a project note that says "write essay" I use five or six project notes, "create title," "section one," "thesis," etc.
That's the way to go! And you must have a natural talent for "seeing" metaphors, both verbal ones, and those out in the real world. Keep up the good work; hope you'll publish a "collected works" someday.
So well written. Of all the travesties, the one most ominous is the radical Supreme Court majority’s continuing contempt for precedents, especially precedents that protect citizens and lawful residents from government abuses of power. If the MAGA-billionaire authoritarian coup succeeds, it will primarily be because of this Court’s complicity and corruption.