The Inside Poop

(See: Just Above Sunset: Sexual Politics ) Here's Donald Trump, justifying his retort to Hillary Clinton after she accused him of se...

(See: Just Above Sunset: Exacting Revenge ) Eugene Robinson, of the Washington Post, makes a good point about Donald Trump : What Tr...

(See: Just Above Sunset: Policing America ) I just want to introduce one possible complication to what seems like an otherwise very tho...

(See: Just Above Sunset: Nothing to Fear ) It's a rare day that I find myself disagreeing with Kevin Drum, but today is indeed one of...

(See: Just Above Sunset: Political Anomalies ) It's fun to think Vladimir Putin endorsed Donald Trump, but the truth is, he didn...

(See: Just Above Sunset: Political Indigestion ) This was good. Yes, there was  a lot of good material to chew on in that debate t...

(See: Just Above Sunset: Angry Gloom and Doom ) Kevin Drum, of Mother Jones, live-blogged last night's debate , and I saw he wrote thi...

(See: Just Above Sunset: No Growing Up ) Two comparisons worth a closer examination, being between Donald Trump and (a) Richard Nixon, and...

(See: Just Above Sunset: Affirmative Inaction ) Remember the Bakke case, back in the late 1970s? That was the beginning of what we're ...

(See: Just Above Sunset: Reductio ) Try these two headlines out as examples of Reductio Ad Absurdum: TRUMP: "NO APOLOGIES" F...

(See: Just Above Sunset: Longing for Cheap Talk ) Do we have any quotes anywhere from anyone explaining why it's important to call our...

(See: Just Above Sunset: The Outcome of Outrage ) So the big question on everybody's mind this morning, because it's really hard t...

(See: Just Above Sunset: The Counterattack ) I have been wondering lately what odds-maker Nate Silver has to say these days, and here he i...

(See: Just Above Sunset: Dark Days Returning ) In spite of what a lot of people think, the 1960s were indeed dark times, with all the assa...

(See: Just Above Sunset: The Final Descent ) It's a long one today, but I did want to make two points. FIRST, I WANT TO REITERATE an...

(See: Just Above Sunset: Never Choosing Sides ) It's occurred to me recently that Republicans -- and specifically, presidential candid...

(See: Just Above Sunset: American Mockingbirds ) I must confess that I like mockery, actually. In fact, I was quite proud of the last li...

(See: Just Above Sunset: Falling Asleep Again ) Here's two things that have been pissing me off today: As a (former?) journalist, so...