ON MATTERS OF DUBIOUS INTEREST
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”
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”
Trump: It’s my great pleasure to see you again, Mr. President. No, no groveling, please!
Xi: Did you sleep on the plane?
Trump: Very little. Too busy posting memies on Truth Social. I get so many stupid questions directed at me. Continue reading “Dialogue”
In these times of hysteria and sociopathology, it may be useful to remind us that there is “nothing new under the sun,” as Ecclesiastes put it. The Mark Twain of our time surely was Hunter S. Thompson, whose words still drive me crazy and apply so directly to what the Trumpworld has brought us. Continue reading “Trumpism Predicted”
There is a new book out that I want very much to read. It’s an anatomy of capitalism: The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World, by Trevor Jackson. Capitalism plainly dominates the world’s economic and social life. “An economy predicated on infinite accumulation, mass consumption, and fossil-fueled industrialization is not reconcilable with a finite planet.” Continue reading “Capitalism Exposed”
Some think the Iran war is Trump’s “excursion” to distract from his involvement with Epstein. Maybe so, but his absurd conduct of the war makes you wonder. You’ll recall that in both his presidential campaigns Trump positioned himself as the outsider who would drain the elitist swamp. Instead, his administration “stands as the ultimate monument to elite impunity.” The proof is all over the Epstein files. Continue reading “The Deepest Irony”
Here is Sidney Blumenthal on Trump’s infantile obsession with war as a game: “The Trump White House is the first in history to define a war’s purpose as achieving the ecstatic sensation of playing a simulated war video game.” Continue reading “How the White House Sees Iran”
The tariff ruling by the Supreme Court made a lot of people jump up and dance. And rightly so. It’s the biggest legal defeat the President has suffered. Now we await with no pleasure the State of the Union on Tuesday which will give him an excuse for more self-serving venom, bluster and lies. But the real threat to Trump is still the Epstein files. Continue reading “It’s All Going to Be about Epstein”
My historical-political book Trumpworld Begins was finally published February 5 on Amazon KDP. I hope you can give it a review. I want your honest feedback, positive or negative. Here is the link to Amazon US. I think you can also order from Amazon Mex though the site has some errors I’m trying to correct. You can also leave your comments on Goodreads. Continue reading “Finally It’s a Book”
They are all narcotized with power—all of Trump’s enablers. You saw that in their lying canned responses to the Minneapolis killing of an innocent woman. Trump is never going to stop his lies. When asked by the New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” He meant, I think, his own mortality, a typical verbal confusion for him. And of course he has no morality.
I spent Christmas alone and it was fine. Sure, I missed family and friends but we were in touch through the wonderful magic of video calls. There were no complicated arrangements, boring discussions, or effusive dinners. And no talk of politics and Trump. Living alone has its merits. Continue reading “A Different Holiday Season This Year”