Tag: Column By John Young

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Jon Stewart didn’t let Bill Adair finish his sentence, so I’ll do it. Adair, the father of Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checker PolitiFact, was discussing his book “Beyond …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young If you ever wondered what makes a snake slippery, it’s not spray tan. That goo comes from a thin coat of fatty lubricant in a network …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young I had just turned off MSNBC when the doorbell rang. A dark-skinned man stood outside. He pointed a menacing weapon at my head (later Googled as …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young It was Aug. 26, 2019, in Biarritz, France, and Donald Trump greeted a friend as only he could – and get away with it politically. Having …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young “Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species,” wrote Thomas Paine. Acknowledging degrees of truth in Paine’s quip, let me defend my genome. Don’t downgrade …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Donald Trump is backpedaling like Primo Carnera. Stunned and harried, he hears the blessed bell. But it’s an illusion. The fighter before him is ringing his …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young “We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven’t you?” I’ve thought about that line from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” ever since I saw JD Vance in drag. …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young If Donald Trump said road apples tasted better than sweet red ones, Republican leaders would hustle out and sink their teeth into the nearest dairy dropping. …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young At this somber moment, the end of Joe Biden’s candidacy, recall a horribly crass moment. It was 2020. After addressing the fawning zealots of the Conservative …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Not only do too many Americans show the perils of low information; but they also show the effects of no memory. For instance, too many can’t …