ON MATTERS OF DUBIOUS INTEREST
On Friday I started down the callejon (alleyway) where I live to go to the bakery three blocks away. It’s about a hundred yards to the street, then another hundred or so to the corner, then two blocks to the bakery. I only got a little way to the corner and had to turn back home. My legs were too weak to continue. Another notch in the progress of aging. Continue reading “What Happened Was. . .”
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”
It’s hard to know which one to remark on: the healthcare follies, the fraudulent recent speech, the growing number of boats sunk, the Trump-Kennedy Center, cutting loose Ukraine, the gluttonous ballroom, and of course the manhandled Epstein files. The pileup of these things is just astonishing. Continue reading “The Scandale du Jour”
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”