Tag: Column By John Young

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 …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young You bet it’s big news when a fellow party member in Congress steps to the microphone to say the president is unfit. Members of a party …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young  If your interest here is intonation and inflection in a presidential debate, read no more. If your worry is words fumbled along with political chances, forward …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young KYOTO, JAPAN – A laundromat is the last place an American in the Orient expects a political discussion. Then again, the subject was Donald Trump. I …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young The unsigned newspaper editorial is a vaunted tradition: a local institution taking – one hopes — a gutsy group position. For most of my working life, I …