ON MATTERS OF DUBIOUS INTEREST
Don: You know they’re giving us a lot of crap about our “relationship.”
Natalie: The media has no respect for what you do or who you are. I just want to do whatever I can to help you do your job, Binkie. You’re like a father to me. My real one killed himself. Continue reading “Natalie and Don Talk It Over”
I haven’t heard much from Ann Coulter lately, but then I don’t subscribe to X, where she hangs out. She did say back in 2024, “The best thing Trump could do for America is die.” I gave her a short chapter in Trumpworld Begins back in 2017. It’s worth reposting here as a way to introduce you to the book—which I want you to buy here or, in Mexico, here. And it helps you remember how one of the great universities caved on freedom of speech. Continue reading “A True Conservative Nut Case”
Each day we hear about another mind-blowing Trumpian disaster. They are now beyond shocking. Trumpworld Begins traces their beginnings in his first term. You’ll learn how it was all predicated and primed in the years 2016-2018—if only we’d been smart enough to read the signs. Continue reading “What We Learned about Trump and Forgot”
I’ve been reading the New York Times daily since I lived in New York in the late 1960s. It was a very different paper (a “paper,” that is) then. Now, despite a few very pertinent newsworthy stories, they are giving us a bunch of lightweight flaky stuff on their web’s front page. You must go below the fold (the double line) to get the real news and opinions. Why is this happening? Continue reading “The No-News NYT”
Here’s all you need to know about Trump’s Correspondents’ Dinner:
President Donald Trump attacked a slew of journalists and some of his favorite political foils at a slimmed-down redo of the White House correspondents’ dinner on Friday, comparing one female reporter to a transgender social media star, mocking politicians’ physical appearances, and bringing his audience to mostly stunned silence for more than an hour before pulling out a red Trump 2028 cap and declaring he was running for another term. Continue reading “Another Day, Another Dinner”
It could have been yesterday that Thomas Brackett Reed (1839–1902), one-time speaker of the House, said this.
What Trump does to your mind—and the sum of human knowledge—was never on better display than in Thursday night’s speech. Continue reading ““They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.””
Captain: Them sonsabitches. Here we are stuck for over a month now, and nobody will pay the bill to get us out.
First Mate: The Greeks who own this tub got plenty of money. And we can’t even get decent food. Continue reading “On Board an Oil Tanker off Hormuz”
The present heat waves here and in Europe are not just a warning but a forecast. I started writing this blog about climate change in 2019 and after a time gave up on it. Few were listening, and the topic was just too complex and intimidating. Now many everywhere are dying from intense heat and exposure—and the situation is bound to get worse. Continue reading “Death by Heat”
Much ink has been spilled over the Reflecting Pool disaster, so excuse me for adding to the torrent. My partner discovered this picture on Facebook, and it does have its appeal (even if it never gets built) principally because it gives the finger to Trump. Continue reading “Maybe This?”
Vance: They put us up at this crummy hotel while the boss signs his ass away at Versailles. I don’t think he even knows how many disastrous treaties were signed there. And now the peace talks here are going to start again but will probably end up in the toilet. Continue reading “At the Hotel Ceasefire, Geneva”
“We” includes everyone but his investors, that is. For many of us the man typifies arrogance, smugness and swagger. One would think the world’s richest person (at $826 billion and counting) could afford some humility. But with all that money and power, Elon manages to generally behave like a yahoo. He is a very mixed bag of characteristics and has done some good works. I’ll give him credit for that. He’s still a yahoo. Continue reading “Why We Hate Elon Musk”