Department of Next-To-No Comment

I’m just a plainspoken Colorado criminal defense lawyer, but the way I see it…

These are the times that try our souls.

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Among the august majority: A woman who might have been typecast in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and two men whose Senate confirmations featured credible testimony that they belong on the spectrum from sexual harassment to attempted rape.

Great day for male supremacy. Mostly old males stuck somewhere in eighteenth century thought.

Congress passed a bipartisan gun bill.

Did it one month to the day after an eighteen-year-old gunman entered an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and used his military-grade weapon to shred the bodies of nineteen children and two schoolteachers.

Agile Congress. Got something, rather than the nothing they’d got for nearly thirty years. (Australia solved a similar problem in a bit more than a week.)

Not particularly agile thinking. Nothing in the bill will prevent another eighteen-year-old gunman from entering an elementary school, today, tomorrow, or the next day, and using the same rifle to kill nineteen more children and two more schoolteachers.

The Texas GOP declared homosexuality an “abnormal lifestyle choice.”

The party also exalted, as it has since Aretha Franklin got ‘em all worked up in song, families who don’t need no help ‘cause they’s founded on the traditional marriage of a natural man and a natural woman. How the hell was Ted Cruz ever allowed to marry?

Please. My mother was from Texas. She would wash all those Republican mouths out with soap.

This SEAL is AWOL.

May this sailor come home from the sea in which he seems lost, here.