ON MATTERS OF DUBIOUS INTEREST
First, you should know that there was not one mention of Hegseth or the boat bombings in all the New York Times headlines yesterday morning. How low have the mighty fallen. The Opinion Editor did have a two-minute video that offered nothing new. So much for “the paper of record.” Continue reading “Hegseth, Rotten to the Core”
Finally, unless I croak, Trumpworld Begins should be published in a couple of weeks. There have been problems, naturally. The book consists of blog posts, from the period 2016 to 2018, that clearly show the chaos unfolding as the participants fumbled their way through Trump 1. As characters in this earlier drama they are almost, but not quite, as batty and inept as those in our contemporary cast. Continue reading “The Importance of Trump 1”
They found they had more in common than was predicted or expected. It was a nice surprise but many of us had a hunch they would get along. Mamdani’s charm and intelligence carried the day. “I expect to be helping him, not hurting him,” Trump said in a later press conference. Continue reading “Antisemitic Communist Wows Fascist”
Nobody really trusts the media now, so I asked Gemini to replay some of Jeffrey Epstein’s insults to Trump in the recently released horde of materials. . . . Well, they may have been friends once. Continue reading “Trump and Epstein Cannot Escape AI”
Gavin Newsom captioned this AI pic “Goodnight, Peasants!” as Trump fled to Florida to escape the intense pressures of Washington. Unless you’ve been asleep for the past week, you know how:
Continue reading “Starve the Children and Ground the Planes”
As if the meeting with Xi wasn’t bad enough. The war against Chicago continues. The shutdown continues. We could go on but we’ll let Axios summarize the crimes and punishments that never seem to end. Continue reading “The Village Idiot Strikes Again”
Matt Ford (TNR): The raw spectacle of Trump tearing a hole in the White House to hang out with his rich friends is already a potent symbol of his presidency—almost ham-fisted in a way, as if it were drawn by a third-rate political cartoonist for a fourth-rate newspaper. At every level, the entire project may be the perfect summation of what his administration has been like for the country. Continue reading “All that glitters is not gold.”
The actions of this administration and its leader often leave us open-mouthed and tongue-tied. Trying to categorize what’s going on we use defective, inaccurate, fuzzy words like fascism, conservatism, liberal. Yes, we resort to clichés. We argue. What does “liberal” mean anymore? The imprecision is not just in the political context. Abstract and broad concept words tend to become not only ambiguous and diverse; they vary with the user’s understanding, background and purpose. Continue reading “There Are No Words”
No, I don’t mean the old Black Sabbath album. It’s what came to mind as a short take on Trump’s transfiguration from the bumbling dodo of the first term to the crazed sociopath we deal with today. Black Sabbath’s music was a pretense, a masquerade for the masses. Trump and his crew are all too real. Continue reading “Live Evil”
With so much at stake why do our Democratic shutdown negotiators look like wimps? Paralyzed with fear of being outmatched in the shutdown dispute, they whine and act like members of a high school debating team. Still, a few people on Our Side have recognized the value of humor and used it to good effect. Continue reading “Negotiation Is A Serious Business?”
The President is king of the witch-hunt. He loves to accuse his enemies of pursuing that activity to harass him. But in fact, “far from being the victim of witch hunts, he is the orchestrator of them.” Thursday he outdid himself in orchestrating the indictment of James Comey. To do that, he illegally pushes the Justice Department to destroy his enemies, that is, anybody who dares cross him. Continue reading “The Provenance of Witch-Hunting”