When Lies Turn Lethal

Mickey Friedman August 5, 2019 You can spend your days and nights responding to lies. Rep. Ilhan Omar expresses concern about Republican attempts to end a refugee resettlement program: “the only leverage you have is that you are part of…

Mel

Mickey Friedman July 19, 2019 The last few years it was touch and go. And I wondered which would come first, whether Mel Greenberg would succumb to cancer or Mel and I would die while he was driving us to…

Camps of Cruelty

July 4, 2019 By Mickey Friedman Had Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used words other than “concentration camps” to describe immigrant detention centers would the hypocritical Republicans have stopped dead in their tracks and said: “Oh my God! Children in cages is a…

Sorry, England. Sorry, France.

By Mickey Friedman June 24, 2019 My invitation to see the Queen must have gotten lost in the mail. Believe me, I’ve been checking. Somehow it made it to the White House. Capitol One sends me an invitation every few…

The Drums of War

June 7, 2019 By Mickey Friedman I thought by now the manager would have pulled me. My knees hurt. My sign is old. I’ve been demonstrating longer than Dustin Pedroia has been playing second base for the Sox. I began…

Democracy. Now.

May 25, 2019 By Mickey Friedman Ten employees of Amalgamated Gizmo jointly purchase a lottery ticket. Which turns out to be a winning ticket worth a million dollars. The ten winners meet at Guiseppi’s Meatballs & More to decide how…

Department of Justice, Not

Mickey Friedman May 10, 2019 According to the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (O.L.C.) “the indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President would impermissibly undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions.”…

We’re Full

Mickey Friedman April 29, 2019 To the surprise of many in Wyoming and Utah, where you can see for miles and never catch a glimpse of another, the President announced the country is full. Taking credit for renovating part of…

All Together Now

By Mickey Friedman April 15, 2019 While the President claims collusion victory, and his Department of Justice attempts to destroy the Affordable Care Act and render healthcare completely unaffordable, now is the time for all reasonable Americans to come together…

The Broken Promise

By Mickey Friedman March 29, 2019 When Donald Trump announced for President he proclaimed: “Save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cuts. Have to do it.” Then he explained: “Get rid of the fraud. Get rid of the waste and…