ON MATTERS OF DUBIOUS INTEREST
Thus spoke the great philosopher George Santayana in 1905, and his words have always gotten wide currency. I almost took it for the epigraph to Trumpworld Begins because it so powerfully expresses that we learned nothing from the lunatic’s first term.
In 2016 many seemed unable to predict the future or learn from the past, but some of us did read the handwriting on the wall. Continue reading “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
What follows is a meditation on getting old attributed to Clint Eastwood but in fact seems to be written by its poster, Ed Davidson. The piece has gotten a ton of downloads because it’s so true.
Of course there’s a good deal more to getting old, as this 92-year-old can testify. For me, the physical decline dominates though your brain does weird, squiggly, surprising things too. I’ll talk about that later. Continue reading “Aging is not gentle.”
Trumpworld Begins will not please everybody since it’s my contentious perspective on the madness in Trump’s first term. Anyhow, here are some reactions from a friend. Now, please make your move and buy a copy here (US) or here (Mexico). Thank you. Continue reading “One Reader’s Reaction”
My friend John Velie lives in Minneapolis and part-time in Oaxaca. He tells us graphically how ICE has lately changed its tactics but not its strategy. Continue reading “The Minneapolis Story Continues”
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”
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”
The original project was to cost $200 million, provided by private donors. The cost soon jumped to $300 million, then $400 million, now $1 trillion, adding unspecified security and military spaces paid for by you and me. Now they are talking about a West Wing expansion to “balance out” the 90,000 square foot ballroom on the east. Continue reading “A Ballroom Built on Bloat”
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”
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”
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”
I took to imagining what would transpire after the last rites were administered and everyone got copies (redacted, certainly) of the Epstein files that did him in. His death was not unexpected, and celebrations occurred worldwide. Read about that in Trumpworld Begins, publishing on February 5. Continue reading “The King Is Dead”