Steve Chapman is confused. God-fearing Republicans used to hate communism. Now they love it! What’s the deal? The deal is, Donald told them so. “For communist dictators such as Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un, Trump exudes admiration and amity. To the anti-Western Russian President Vladimir Putin, he offered congratulations for winning a rigged election.”…
Author: Alan Vanneman
The Windsors on Netflix: Cheaper than malt liquor, and way better for you!
Yeah, I know, it’s tough livin’ in the age o’ Trump, and, particularly, livin’ in the land o’ Trump, and the temptation to crack a forty before noon weighs heavily on a lot of us, but stiff that desire, friends, there’s a better way: The Windsors, the low-comedy antithesis and antipodes to the much lamented…
It Is Happening Here
What’s the big deal? Trump said he was going to torture women and children, didn’t he? Isn’t keeping his campaign promises a president’s job? There’s more than a whiff of fascism here—the glorification of brutality. Ruthless? Hell, yeah, we are! That’s what keeps us safe! It’s “amusing”—amusing in the sense that it makes you want…
Maybe you should have thought of that before
“I am extremely disappointed that a candidate like Corey Stewart could win the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. This is clearly not the Republican Party I once knew, loved and proudly served. Every time I think things can’t get worse they do, and there is no end in sight,” sigh tweeted former Virginia Lt. Gov….
Shorter Donald Trump: What’s the deal with evil? It ain’t so bad! Hell, sometimes, I feel a little evil myself!
Yes, the lion lay down with the lamb in Singapore, with the meeting of El Donaldo and Kim Jong-un. The only problem was, no one could tell which caudillo was which. Okay, I’m being unkind to El Presidente, as is more or less my wont. He rips children from the arms of their parents, but…
Those Mean Old Disestablishment Blues: Why it’s so hard to put Humpty-Dumpty together again
Dreary old Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by almost three million votes, despite being deeply loathed by millions of voters, many of whom held their noses and voted for snatch snatchin’ Don. Post election, Trump’s poll ratings have never reached the 45% mark, despite a booming stock market and a steadily expanding economy. So why…
It could happen to anyone! Anyone who got drunk and went dancing with a loaded gun stuffed in his waistband
Over at the National Review, Andrew “Mad Dog” McCarthy, stalwart defender of all things Donald, has these words of sympathy for the plight of FBI agent Chase Bishop, who accidentally shot some dude while dancing and, as a consequence, could even lose his job! “It’s a shame. None of us who has a rap sheet…
Only in New York? Maybe not.
Or maybe so. Both New York magazine and the New York Times are a bit ga-ga over the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City, one of the turn of the millennium shows, along with the more conventional Friends and Seinfeld, that convinced more conventional Americans (more totally conventional Americans) that the Big Apple was…
It was twenty years ago today, more or less
In May 1998, actually, my first post appeared in Gary Morris’ now legendary site, the Bright Lights Film Journal, to wit: “What Kind of a Cowboy Are You? Eddie Cantor Goes West in Whoopee”, a film significantly more politically incorrect than the poster shown above. True, this poster could easily be considered sexist by the…
Ben Goldberg—“Ask Me Now”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-6k5CX6wIQ Solo clarinet by Ben. Posted by BAGProductionRecords