David Mills
Associate Editorial Page Editor at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Articles
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1 week ago |
post-gazette.com | David Mills
The most notable protester at Saturday’s No Kings rally in Beaver wore an inflatable sumo wrestler costume with an orange t-shirt underneath to make the skin look orange and a crown on his head. He seems to have been one of the organizers. It was one of only two of the old-fashioned theatrical — by old-fashioned I mean 1960s — touches in what was a straightforward rally on the lawn of the Beaver County Courthouse. The other was a few woman in Handmaid’s Tale costumes.
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2 weeks ago |
oursundayvisitor.com | David Mills
At Mass another Sunday, the little girl in front of me, about 3 years old, in a poofy spangled skirt, stood up between her parents at a random moment and crossed herself, then looked up at her mom for approval. Later, as we were saying the Nicene Creed, she stood up, facing backward, holding up a pad of drawing paper as if it were a book, and said nonsense words, rocking her head back and forth.
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2 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | David Mills
The conflict in Los Angeles began with a lie. During the 2016 primaries, Donald Trump saw that taking a hard line on immigration, making illegal immigrants look as bad as he possibly could, would win him votes. It had not been an issue he had cared about before, but his aides reportedly told him it would separate him from the other candidates. All he needed to do was turn the issue up to 11, something at which he’s a master.
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3 weeks ago |
oursundayvisitor.com | David Mills
But there’s a problem with rolling your eyes. Catholicism has its own versions of this kind of thing, and they probably don’t seem very different to a religious outsider. Dust eating, for example. Lucile Hasley was a popular Catholic writer in the late 1940s and ’50s.
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3 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | David Mills
He’s a “real ‘sleazebag’” and a “bad person who, in his own way, probably hates America, and obviously has his own separate ambitions.” Donald Trump’s judgment must have surprised the target. Trump seems to have been enraged, as he so often is, at being told no. The man who shaped AmericaIn the president’s first term, his target, Leonard Leo, was apparently the one person in American whose suggestions he took without much objection.
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