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”
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.””
Yes, I watched two hours of last night’s shocking event. I’ll refrain from commenting on it since it will be all over the news media today. I will say that Trump’s White House response was mostly fair and decent (except for his babbling about the need for the new ballroom). Instead I reprint my 2018 reaction to a Dinner when the event was well into its sad decline. I did attend one of these events in 1994 when things were more accepting and jovial. Politics was so different then. Continue reading “Past Correspondents’ Day Dinners”
We have to get rid of him. George Conway has a great summary piece here. He “lays out his case that Republicans will eventually have no choice but to remove the president before his term ends.” I urge you to read it. Until then, here are a few visual reminders of what this lunatic has wrought. Continue reading “See What the Mutant Has Done”
We learned this month that the total of Trump’s personal corruption now exceeds 4 billion dollars. This bloated sum was achieved through complicated crypto deals and contributions from United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and other favor-seekers. Much of these gains are of questionable legality. It all started more than eight years ago as seen in this piece from Trumpworld Begins (now available on Amazon).
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”
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”
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?”
Rick Wilson, the former Republican strategist turned author of Everything Trump Touches Dies, has always been a noisemaker. His acerbic criticisms of Trump are well documented. Now he speaks out about the recent Trump-Musk debacle and raises an important point many have overlooked because we are all on tenterhooks to find out who’s the biggest bigot here. Continue reading “Another Thought about the
Marvelous Cat Fight”
Now we have Jeanine Pirro, queen of plastic surgery and maniacal statements who also needs a brain transplant. She is coming to Washington as inerim US attorney for DC. Pirro adds to a total of now 21, I think, ex-Fox halfwits appointed to high posts by Trump. A 7-year-old piece from my work in progress shows this is nothing new. What a talent pool. Continue reading “The Trump-Fox Feedback Loop”