“In politics, money buys influence.”—Hillary Clinton “There’s no free lunch.”—Bernie Sanders “I’m sorry. I should never have said such a stupid thing”—Donald Trump “It’s hard to overestimate the importance of America’s moral leadership in the world.”—Noam Chomsky “Keep it simple.”—Jacques Derrida “Life is completely meaningless, and trying to make sense of it is a futile … More Fantasy Quotes

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has a reputation among his supporters of “telling it like it is,” by which they seem to mean that Trump says what’s on their minds. If that’s what Trump is doing, he must think his supporters’ minds are filled with anti-Latino bias and bigotry. When the Latina governor of New … More Telling It Like It Is

Here is the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of university: University: an institution of higher learning providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees; specifically : one made up of an undergraduate division which confers bachelor’s degrees and a graduate division which comprises a graduate school and professional schools each of which may … More Trump University–WTF?

When I was in my teens, my older brother Bill got me into a variety of sales. We sold cookware, encyclopedias, Bibles, guitar lessons, and at one point Bill even sold rugs. I sold magazine subscriptions both door-to-door and by telephone. I set up appointments by telephone for home improvement and siding salesmen. The 1987 … More Laying the Block

I seem to be consistently wrong about almost everything.  I have been wrong about Donald Trump at every stage of his ascent. When Trump first started to make real headway in his quest for the Republican nomination, I compared his appeal to the Republican base to the delight some people take in smelling their own … More On Being Wrong

I just finished reading David Hartman’s The God Who Hates Lies: Confronting and Rethinking Jewish Tradition (2011). David Hartman was ordained an Orthodox rabbi at Yeshiva University in 1953 and moved to Israel in 1971. In Israel he became disillusioned with the rigidities of Orthodoxy and ultimately founded the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem in … More The God Who Hates Lies