Marble Falls It’s so outrageous, that I find myself thinking, “not even Trump would pull off a scam like this.” I could be wrong, though. The New York Times reported, somewhat breathlessly, that Trump “…is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him…” …
China Far Away
Marble Falls I’ve been to China. Admittedly, my last visit was 20 years ago in Beijing and Shanghai, when we were looking at how the country handled flooding. Earlier I had been in Hong Kong and Macau, largely on plane layovers. I’ve never been to the megacities that have sprung up in recent …
Not the King and I, the King and Us
Pearl River No Kings Day, only short months after an earlier event in June, was scheduled in more than 2500 towns and cities across the United States. Reports indicate there may have been over 7-million participants. As Jamelle Bouie writes in the Times, Republicans went crazy over people exercising their constitutional right to assemble, …


