Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Playing Politics You may have heard the news last Friday that the Republican National Committee had voted to hold its 2024 presidential nominating convention in Milwaukee...Wisconsin being a key elect...

The Hassle of Your Life Imagine someone came to your house. You have a nice little sign by the front door, politely asking people to remove their shoes when inside your house. Your visitor ignores the...

Playing the Card We've heard of people "playing the race card" in certain situations. Apparently there are other "cards" in the deck these days. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi played the "gender card" thi...

Table for Two For virtually my entire life, there's been a pet in the house...sometimes, more than one. And I'm one of those who will take any measure, and spare no expense, to provide for pets in my ...

No Win Nancy I'm referring, of course, to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her on-again/off-again trip to Taiwan. At this point, she can't win no matter what she does...but it's of her own making. ...

Passing the Buck--Literally One of the key points of the Senate Democrats' reconciliation bill is a minimum tax on U.S. corporations...for some, obviously, raising the income tax they are assessed. No...

We Already Know I recall the old Pepe Le Pew cartoons...you know, the male skunk who was always trying to woo the female cat. She, of course, would shy away because...well, he was a skunk. In one of t...

Standing Up Former President Donald Trump yesterday announced that he had put CNN on notice...notice of intent to bring a civil action for defamation, that is. And it was no short correspondence, appa...

On Hold This is the last week of July...it's RAGBRAI week, and the week many folks hold their county fairs...all in a desire to get things wrapped up before we turn the calendar page to August--and mu...

Changing Definitions There used to be an ad that played on the radio an awful lot. It was for some sort of personal development plan, and it began by saying, "Words mean things...and the words you use...