“This is a public desert, pal! You hot rodders make me sick!” “Do I look like I’ve seen a white whale?” “I do see the absurdity of it all. But I fail to see the humor in that absurdity.” “Trust me. It’s much harder.” “Okay, I know when I’ve been hustled. You can have your…
Give this man a cigar. And a beard.
Donald Trump just spent 80 minutes telling the press that he’s rubber and they’re glue, Politico reports. Surely, the Donald is just getting warmed up. Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, Mussolini—all the greats—they spoke for hours. But just give the man time. I mean, talking is the one thing he’s good at. Afterwords Meanwhile, back in…
Right Turn? No, Correct Turn!
There was a time when I wrote so many columns making fun of WashPost Likudist from Hell Jennie Rubin that I stopped. Jennie was so over the top1 that it didn’t seem fair, or relevant, to make fun of her. Well, that was then. The non “I want to die for Israel and I’m going…
Universe proves Einstein right, again! Not!
“Universe proves Einstein right, again!” is a headline editors love to write. “We”—or at least “they”—love to think of old Doc Einstein, with his lamb-like innocence and basset-hound eyes, floating somewhere up in the etherium and looking down on us all and, somehow, looking out for us all. When it comes to relativity, or gravity,…
Out like Flynn
How wrong was it for anonymous “Intelligence Community” folks to fink on poor Michael Flynn, who just wanted to chat with his good buddy Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak about, you know, stuff, without everyone and his sister in law making a big deal about it? Or leaking transcripts of those conversations to the Washington Post?…
VSOP II—“Well You Needn’t”
VSOP II, aka Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams, on trumpet, sax, piano, bass, and drums, respectively, aka 3/5 of the early/mid-sixties Miles Davis Quintet, circa 1983. Posted by leatherlips
Will Gerry Ford save us? Probably not.
David Brooks is hoping that Donald Trump will gently implode, leaving VP Mike Pence, the 21st Century Gerry Ford, in charge. Well, I’d have to take Mike over il Donald, without much enthusiasm, but I don’t think we’ll be that “lucky”. Trump self-corrects when he has to, as he did during the campaign. This isn’t…
The enemy within—within the White House
Paul Krugman nailed it: “When the Fire Comes”. So did the Washington Post: “Trump paints a picture of a dystopian America that doesn’t exist”. President Trump is cranking up the volume in the anticipation of the next terrorist attack, or the next police shooting1, in order to announce that chaos reigns, that the gloves are…
Yo, New York Times! Torture is not a “mistake”. It’s a crime and a sin against the human spirit!
The New York Times—along with many others—took righteous umbrage when President Trump, asked why he insisted on cozying up to a “killer” like Vladimir Putin, responded by saying “What, you think our country’s so innocent?” The Times earnestly, though, one must say, rather innocently, acknowledged our own lack of innocence: “There’s no doubt that the…
David Ignatius, last seen stroking a source
Remember Michael T. Flynn, the less than model lieutenant general who chanted “Lock her up!” while denouncing Hillary Clinton at the Republican convention, who wrote a crack-brained book with crack-brained author Michael Leeden1 in which he declared that “I’m totally convinced that, without a proper sense of urgency, we will be eventually defeated, dominated, and…