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Volume 268 | No. 19

The Former President’s Rap Sheet

Dear Editor: Over the past couple of weeks we have learned of two more criminal actions by Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for President. First, at a meeting last month at Mar-a-Lago with about two dozen oil industry executives, Trump offered to reverse all of President Biden’s environmental rules and stop any new rules from being put in place in exchange for a $1 billion campaign donation. This is nothing short of bribery. Second, we have now learned the real reason Mr. Trump never released his tax returns that were being audited by the IRS. As reported in the New York Times, Trump claimed …

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Entropy has been weighing on my mind and body

by Jean Stimmell “Even the words that we are speaking now, thieving time has stolen away, and nothing can return.” — Horace, Odes, 23 BC Watching my body fall apart at the age of 78, I can no longer ignore the fact that entropy is taking over. Entropy, of course, is the scientific fact that everything in the cosmos winds down, the universal reality that order inevitably turns toward disorder. As Carlo Rovelli has written in The Order of Time,⁠ 1 entropy is special: as opposed to all the other laws of the universe, time is not reversible. You can’t go backward. How well I …

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Mon, June 3

2022—After flying several boxes full of classified documents to his New Jersey golf course, Dolt #45, at Mar-a-lago, hands a few more in a folder to an FBI agent, claiming that’s all he’s got. 2002—Egypt says it warned the U.S., a week before 9/11, that al-Qaeda was about to strike the U.S. 1983—In Medina, N.D., “Greatest Generation” veteran, Posse Comitatus co-founder, and anti-tax crank Gordon Kahl dies in a shootout with the FBI, having slain five U.S. Marshals. 1980—A failed 46-cent computer chip briefly convinces NORAD that 220 Soviet missiles are incoming. 1973—Circus hand Alvin Kelly is fatally stomped by Bea, an elephant, in Tenafly, …

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Sun, June 2

2002—The CIA admits to Congress—in a classified document, to avoid undue alarm—that it had tracked one 9/11 hijacker months earlier than it had previously admitted. 1999—The Virginian-Pilot reports that evangelist Pat Robertson has had “extensive dealings” with Liberian war criminal Charles Taylor. 1976—Don Bolles, investigative reporter for the Arizona Republic, is mortally injured by a bomb under his car. A pair of patsies take the fall. 1972—Alfred W. McCoy explains to Congress that top South Vietnamese officials, the CIA, and the Mafia are all in the heroin racket together. 1971—“Treating [the press] with considerably more contempt,” Nixon writes to Haldeman, “is in the long run …

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Are Workers Just Too Stupid to Understand Inflation?

by Les Leopold The pundits are at it again, fretting over the latest poll numbers showing that President Biden is losing in the key swing states, especially those like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, with heavy concentrations of working-class voters. With inflation down, unemployment at record lows, wages up, and infrastructure projects popping up across the country, the pundits wonder why aren’t these workers thrilled with the economy? The not-so-subtle implication is that American workers are too dumb to realize that wages are rising faster than the higher prices they see all around them. Even Robert Reich, who I truly admire and hate to call out, …

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Courting a Supreme Disaster

Well, this fortnight sure kicked off with a bang. The news was still breaking as our stalwart team of volunteers was distributing our paper of May 17th. The front page of the previous day’s New York Times had featured a photograph showing an upside-down U.S. flag flying outside the Alexandria, Virginia home of Samuel Alito. As the Flag Police can attest, lately the public has become largely inured to seeing the Stars and Stripes displayed in ways that violate the Flag Code. Seeing one hanging upside down, though, outside the crib of a Supreme Court Justice, was as unexpected as the Spanish Inquisition. The photo …

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