Patio Boat

March. March. March. In March we began marching. Baby steps at first. Small circles with little signs. March. March. March. March. March. Ma...

You Like to Think You Could Do Better You like to think you would have done as well, Maybe even better. You give thanks that you will never ...

January 2025   It is January. It has always been January. It will always be January.   Now is the January of our discontent. M...

 It's been a rough 12 months for me and Monique, full of disease and death and setbacks and sorrow. We are ground down. Tuesday's el...

Up is down! Down is up! Higgledy Piggledy all around! Like a lot of folks, I'm relieved that Biden decided to step down after all. I sus...

Honestly, do any of you need or want any guidance for the 2024 election? Anybody?  These two guys have been around on the public scene for a...

 Gallons of (virtual) ink are being spilled by the Michigan political punditry this week to try to explain how the Democratic Party gained c...

I've been meaning to post something on recent events for a couple of weeks, now, but a few things have kept me busy and events quickly k...

And so, no more than ten minutes after I finally publish my first political post on the ol' Patio Boat since Nov. 3, 2017, Bob Mueller ...

A friend of mine asked me to weigh in on the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary, and although I had originally planned to skip the long 2...

A bit of news from me -- I've decided not to run for another term on the Wolverine Lake Village Council this fall. Twelve years as our V...

I know I promised pretty pictures before another Trump post, but it's been a busy month on other fronts and I do have a bit to say on Th...

Just a quick update. Yeah, I haven't posted on Trump since July. In part because it's been a busy couple of months, but mostly it...

More of a quick check-in than a real blog post here, but I had a moment to capture a few quick thoughts on how things are proceeding, so her...

So, not surprisingly it turns out that Trump now wants to fire the Special Counsel Bob Mueller:   Friend Says Trump Is Considering Firing Mu...

We've made it to June without having entered into a nuclear exchange with North Korea, so I'd guess this is the point where I have t...

The Spicer-speak hit the fan last week. The point of this post, however, is not to talk about last week's news, but to plea for a quiet ...

There are lots of detailed overviews of the last 100 days of the ongoing White House dumpster fire and yard sale out there. So I'll make...

My thanks to my friend  Ray Abruzzi for the tweet that gave me today's subtitle. It came in a post that linked to one of the many, many...

If you're wondering who socialized medicine in the United States, it wasn't Barack Obama. It was Ronald Reagan. In 1986 Reagan sig...