Sid Schwab’s columns puncture political absurdities

Published 1:30 am Monday, November 15, 2021

Since the dawn of the Trump era one of the best reasons to read The Herald is Sid Schwab’s columns puncturing the political absurdities and lunacies of our time. Schwab and The Herald deserve high praise including the Pulitzer prize for commentary.

Schwab’s heartfelt work is reminiscent of the satirical wit of Art Hoppe of the San Francisco Chronicle during the insanity of the Vietnam War, reprinted in the Seattle P-I. On a more fundamental level, Schwab calls to mind the writings of American journalist William Shirer reporting from Berlin in the 1930s. Shirer tried to explain how so-called good Germans living in a “great but baffling nation” could devolve into such gullible bamboozled fools who enabled an amoral madman to incite a world-wide inferno. Shirer famously summarized the experience in his “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.”

Readers also appreciate Schwab’s droll sense of humor.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty but it doesn’t hurt to have leavened with a bit of humor.

Tom P. Conom

Everett