Goines On: Leveler

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Mostly low in spirits for several days, Goines wasn’t going to turn away inspiration from any direction it approached him, even if he didn’t recognize it immediately. This morning, as often happened, Mrs. Goines was already tearing into the NY Times and the Washington Post on her iPad as he finally finished preparing his own breakfast and sat down to it.

The Loneliest Liberal: Worse before better

There must be a silver lining

By James Knudsen

Six months into the Trump era, it would appear that things are going to get worse before they get better, assuming they get better. And yet there is something in my nature that seeks to find the silver lining in the cloud, the ade to add to the lemon, the low-monthly payment in the worthless, high-deductible, health insurance plan offered by the GOP. Put me in a besieged castle of the middle ages and I’d be the one saying, “I think one of the barbarians has brought a bottle of wine.”