This blog site has been operative for 17 years.  Over the years, I've averaged 500 readers/day.  For some reason, my blog yesterday,  MARCH MADNESS, 15 CRAIGSIDE, BROADWAY and LUCY,  drew more than 6,000 people.  I don't know why, for this was just a hodgepodge of assorted and minor things on my mind. Today, however, I focus on the most dangerous person on Planet Earth, President Donald Trump.  Contrary to the views of many, The Donald is not insane or mad.  And yes, there is a difference.  Insane connotes a severe mental illness, while mad leans in the direction of just being angry or upset.   I've been articulating on this matter for a long time, and Ross Rosenfeld of the  New Republic  disagrees with me, and says it well. There Is No Method to Trump's Madness.  He's Simply Insane .  Some tidbits. “They say an old man is twice a child,” Rosencrantz   remarks   in Shakespeare’s   Hamlet,   as he a...

The big news of the day is the  longest presidential address to Congress in history .  President Donald Trump talked for a little more than 100 minutes.  I watched the whole thing, and wonder why. Many Democrats did not even show up, and  some just left during his speech , with  Rep. Al Green  (D-Texas) being booted out.  Several held small signs.  Women wore mostly pink.  Others wore blue/yellow in support of Ukraine. He mostly bragged about doing so much. He repeated his assertion to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal. Assailed the Biden Administration a lot, calling Joe the worst president in American history.  One of his lies/exaggerations, for polls have  Trump as the worst .  In that survey, Biden came in as the 14th greatest president. Here is  one example : “Over 130,000 people, according to the Social Security databases, are aged over 160 years old,” Trump asserted. He then added there are 1,041 people over ...

The USA has worked well since 1776 because the framers of the Constitution were wise enough to establish a government with a separation of powers: legislative branch makes laws, judicial branch interprets laws and executive branch enforces laws.  But the Constitution can be upheld only if these three are independent from each other.  For the first time ever in our history, we have a president who does all three whenever he wants, has one branch ( the U.S. Congress ) afraid to defy him, and the third ( Supreme Court ) which has already ruled that a sitting president can do anything and be free from prosecution.  Democrats and the public are useless in any defense, so President Donald Trump now rules like a dictator. There is one delay in the system.  A judiciary which has checked Trump.  But only temporarily, for anything Trump does not like gets eventually appealed to the Supreme Court.  The next few months will determine if the USA is in a constitutional c...

I'll get to Freida later, but will start with another Democratic Party strategy to win the presidential election.  If just another 2% of voters can be swayed to vote for them because of this issue, that will make a huge difference in various races, especially for Congress, which is looking more and more like Republican victories in both chamber of Congress.  That bit of strategy is the Supreme Court.  This further shows how important President Joe Biden is in this presidential campaign. Biden today announced a program to reform the Supreme Court , including term limits. Will these measures pass through Congress in the coming years?  Nah, but just the mentioning of their brokenness, will gain a few votes for Democrats, as members of the court have had scandal problems, while the whole body has become unpopular for their decisions on abortion rights and the environment, while making Donald Trump immune from prosecution, increasing the chances of his destroying Democrac...