Seven Deadly
Kakistocracy, Seven Deadly, Sloth, Trump, Unfit
Impotus Americanus
by JOHN ADAMS •
Mendacity, Seven Deadly, Trump
The Greatest Trick Trump Ever Pulled
by JOHN ADAMS •
Of all the thousands of lies that Trump has told since becoming president, perhaps the most fundamental lie is his insistence that he somehow represents a majority of his fellow citizens. The opposite is true: he lost the popular vote by three million, and he’s even less popular now than when he was elected. John…
Culture, Disability, Seven Deadly, Speaker Vos, State Government
Speaker Vos’s Distorted Idea of Respect
by JOHN ADAMS •
One reads that Assembly Speaker Vos believes it is disrespectful to allow a physically disabled legislator to telephone into legislative meetings: A state lawmaker who is paralyzed isn’t allowed to participate in committee meetings by phone under a legislative rule that he says keeps him from performing his job as well as he should. Democratic…
America, Government Spending, Holiday, Seven Deadly, Trump
Trump’s Celebration of Himself
by JOHN ADAMS •
Incurvatus in se, and trying to pull the republic inward with him: The National Park Service is diverting nearly $2.5 million in entrance and recreation fees primarily intended to improve parks across the country to cover costs associated with President Trump’s Independence Day celebration Thursday on the Mall, according to two individuals familiar with the…
Babbittry, City, Culture, Seven Deadly, University
Coming & Going Depend on Doing
by JOHN ADAMS •
Originally posted 5.3.19, updated 5.17.19. Although another candidate has withdrawn from the final pool of applicants for a new UW-Whitewater chancellor, conditions that led to the present (stretching over the last two chancellors’ tenure) matter more than the immediate and futile hope that a single appointment will overcome years of the wrong direction. Genuine change…