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Political Amusements, or Not!

Originally we wrote that these irregular musings aren’t easily described, then realized the high risk of inviting easy descriptions. Let us just note that so far, this grab bag has been totally inept at recruiting the influence of cascading conglomerates, whether owners or advertisers, and does not enjoy largess from being in the pocket of a political party’s well-heeled leadership. Corruption, influence peddling by the big money and engineered dysfunction are often unavoidable tangents. Such a broken system, who would bother, but for occasional glimmers of hope? A Hobson’s Choice now and then, perhaps a snipe hunt for Washington DC’s moral high ground.

This is not an open invite for PR companies pushing their clients’ brilliance, but for T-Boy readers and contributors who’d like to express a well-thought-out viewpoint on our interesting times. If you’d like to throw us a pontification for consideration, send it to Skip Kaltenheuser. Political topics relevant to travel are welcome, but as you can see from the past menu we’re very free-ranging…

[caption id="attachment_18418" align="aligncenter" width="850"]Bipartisanship, by Nancy Ohanian Bipartisanship, by Nancy Ohanian[/caption]

These money-back guarantee scribbles comprise a kitchen sink that keeps getting thrown about. Perhaps a topic or two might be of interest. Given the tangents, most include themes with an ever-green shelf-life. If nothing else, you might enjoy frequent appearances of dagger-sharp political art, courtesy of the kindness of Nancy Ohanian, who’s just published one of the most mischievous coffee table books that will cross your path: Between The Tweets, Editorial Cartoons by Nancy Ohanian.

Read ‘em and weep.

For more on politics, see below:

Money is Still King of the Hill; And We’re All the Poorer for It

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
American Dream Revisited, by Nancy Ohanian

In Washington, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Except when they get worse. The recent Democratic Party Presidential Debates had me thinking on the enclosed essay on campaign finance, fished out of the wayback machine, that appeared in Barron’s. Way back, over two decades.

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A Cure for the Mueller Hangover

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Robert Mueller: Into the Swamp, by Nancy Ohanian

If you haven’t seen it, the long version of Matt Taibbi’s critique of journalism over Russia-gate, is worth your time as an exercise in grappling with media herd instinct and the folly of putting our grand papers of record at the head of the herd.

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Ice Pick Donald

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Narcissistic Psychopath by Nancy Ohanian

Attending as press, alas, not as a member, I first crossed paths with the Patriotic Millionaires several years ago at one of their events in Washington. At a dinner they hosted afterwards, I had the added treat of Alan Grayson at my table, and was mighty impressed with both the group and with Grayson’s witty comments about naked influence-peddling on the Hill and Congressional hypocrisy.

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Dance with the One that Brought You – BERNIE!

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Bernie 2020, by Nancy Ohanian

Dance with the one that brought you – BERNIE! As Bernie changed the national dialogue on critical issues and transformed large swaths of the Democratic Party, that’s my bid for his slogan. 

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Haven’t Enough to Keep You Awake at Night? Try the Doomsday Clock for a Truthful State of the Union

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Andrew Wheeler, by Nancy Ohanian

Tick Tock. The good folks at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have returned to wind their Doomsday Clock. Last Thursday at the National Press Club a group of well-credentialed speakers, including former California governor Jerry Brown and former Secretary of Defense William Perry, underscored the organization’s warning that we have established residence in “the new abnormal.”

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Know Voters so Disillusioned by Government They’re on the Fence About Voting in the Midterms?

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Nancy Ohanian's Last Supper of The Second Year

Despite democracy’s diminishment by gerrymandering and the playbook of suppression, your vote is still your best Hail Mary defending against the Big Money’s low art of the thinly disguised bribe. It’s your best chance to sink the oligarchy floating in on the tides of captured government.

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Will Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Tilt at Windmills Evolve to a Direct Hit?

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Senator Elizabeth Warren

Attending the National Press Club for Senator Elizabeth Warren’s impassioned speech on corruption, my mind drifted to an intoxicated phone call I made to Chris Mathews. It was during the Mondale/Reagan campaign, when Mathews was chief of staff to House Speaker Tip “All politics is local” O’Neil. Mathews was phenomenally gracious, given that he didn’t know me from Adam, I woke him at midnight and my tequila-fueled exasperation fell short of diplomatic grace.

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The Strangest Bedfellows

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Active Shooter by Nancy Ohanian

Anyone who’s had the pleasure of knowing Tom Dunkel knows he’s an adept and fair observer of unique Americana who readily turns phrases that do his subjects justice. His book "Color Blind: The Forgotten Team that Broke Baseball’s Color Line," about a Depression-era integrated semi-pro baseball team out of North Dakota, is regarded as a top-tier sports book deftly matching cultural insight with entertainment.

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Assessing Robert Mueller

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Robert Mueller: Into the Swamp, by Nancy Ohanian

I don’t want to genuflect to Robert Mueller as if his sainthood is imminent. Plenty of others are already busy at that task. Separating him from his legal environment is a challenge, as it’s difficult to ignore a stench floating above many aspects of the US Dept. of Justice.

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Scott Pruitt’s Doublespeak Clarifies Him

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
'The Swamp Revisited, One Year Later' by Nancy Ohanian

Allow me to introduce a friend, Elliott Negin, who writes for the Union of Concerned Scientists. The UCS, marshals volunteers and a network of twenty-thousand scientists for a variety of objectives including fighting misinformation and attacks on science, on matters from global warming to pollution to nuclear weapons.

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