I decided to quit Twitter. I don’t expect the Earth to stop because of that nor do I even expect the few likes my posts used to (sometimes) get to miss me. But, finally, Twitter got me. Honestly, it’s not like I even looked at it every day. I didn’t. It took a buildup, I confess. First, it was the phony information that made Twitter all atwitter. Then, it was tracking ex-President Trump’s tweets. Why, I’m not sure, because they always made the news in nanoseconds anyway so I couldn’t fall behind by much.

Two news stories caught my eye in the past couple of days. The Pennsylvania U.S. Senate debate and the story about the My Pillow Guy and Trump supporter, Mike Lindell. First, Pennsylvania. I won’t even begin to try to dissect the response Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz gave on abortion. That’ll be torn apart enough but let me just say, as a man, I don’t want “local political leaders” involved in a decision on whether a woman gets an abortion. It’s not only wrong, it’s icky to even think about — I picture a local politician in the room with the doctor and the woman. I trust the woman making the decision, with medical advice from her doctor.

If you ever entertained any notion that the Republican Party will endure in a democracy, tell me what you’re smoking, please. As an example, Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s most recent embarrassing issue to cope with is twofold: A woman claimed to have an affair with him and he…

Donald J. Trump doesn’t know exactly how lucky he is that Attorney General Merrick Garland will make the ultimate decision on whether the former president is indicted. Garland by various measurements done when he was nominated to the Supreme Court by then-President Obama was a moderate. At best, or worst…

(The Screaming Moderate occasionally hands out awards for Yos! and Oys!, celebrating those individuals who do good deeds (Yo!) and bad ones (Oy!). The Committee on Yos! and Oys! meets when it feels like it.) Today, the Return of the Oys! and Yos! with a new addition — the Mehs…

Questions to the right wing of American politics and those religions that are forcing their beliefs on all of America: What about women making decisions about their own bodies scares you? What about transgender people scares you? What about gay people scares you? What about people whose religious views are…

I don’t believe Cassidy Hutchinson intentionally lied on the stand, at all. I believe she testified honestly to what she knows first-hand and to what she heard second-hand. Why would a 26-year-old just beginning her professional life swear an oath to tell the truth, with millions of eyes and ears…

The U.S. Supreme Court throwing out the precedent-setting Roe v. Wade ruling obviously draws strong feelings on both sides of the issue. Some say is a complicated issue. Many of us grew up believing that the Court would never take away a right it had in the past “given” to…