A kinder, gentler Trump Administration? I think you meant “fascist-hysterical”. Thanks to the appointments of former Lieutenant Gen. Mike “Fear of Muslims is rational” Flynn as national security advisor and Rep. Mike “Waterboarding is cool” Pompeo as head of the CIA, we are just about guaranteed a repeat of the war on Iraq—constant accusations of…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “For God’s sake, Harry! You know damn well who farted!” “I don’t care if you ignore the elephant! Stop ignoring me! “He isn’t my elephant! He’s our elephant! “He’s lonely, damn it! Can’t you see that? And they aren’t that expensive!” “You know what your problem is, Harry? You’re all elephant and…
Did Obama “Create” Trump? No. Did he make his election possible? Sort of.
President Obama did not create the candidacy of Donald Trump. “Responsible” Republicans like Ross Douthat have been pushing that banal meme since the Donald first reared his ugly head back in the primaries, a falsehood that received a proper beat down from Slate’s William Saletan at the time. As Bill put it, “Obama is an…
Is there a silver lining to Trump’s victory? Probably not.
Well, maybe there is, if we’re incredibly lucky. And since we’ve been so incredibly unlucky recently, aren’t we due, just maybe, for a crop of four-leaf clovers? I won’t think about all the bad things that are incredibly likely to happen under Trump, because if I do think about them I’ll start screaming, and my…
Shelly Manne—“Straight, No Chaser”
The West Coast Scene, before the Beatles fucked things up. LA disc jockey Frank Evans hosts drummer Shelly Manne, along with Conte Candoli (trumpet), Richie Kamuca (tenor sax), Russ Freeman (piano), and Monte Budwig (bass). Posted by FranklyJazzTV
Yes, Donald Trump will deport millions of people! Yes, he’ll start a trade war with China! Yes, he’ll tear up the nuclear deal with Iran! Any more dumb questions?
The haters are in charge of immigration “reform”, Sahil Kapur reports for Bloomberg Politics. President-elect Trump has chosen for his transition team the notorious Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, author of Arizona’s “Papers, Please” law, which allows police to stop anyone they suspect of being in the U.S. illegally. Hey, no danger of racial…
Note to Liberals: Five Things That Are Dead
Gun Control: Gun Control does not stop crime, but it does kill the careers of Democratic politicians. When you speak, write, or think, the word “gun” should neither precede nor succeed the word “control” by a period of less than six weeks. Global Warming: Anthropogenic Global Warming is a fact. Here is another fact: the…
Dan Brown’s Inferno: Yes, this is Hell. Totally.
Dan Brown × Ron Howard × Tom Hanks = Squareness Cubed! Hey, when I started this review, I didn’t realize it was going to be so mathematical! Yes, Inferno is yet another roller-coaster of thrills from the Dan Man—just, you know, a very flat roller-coaster. That rowdy crowd over at Rotten Tomatoes dump all over…
Finger-Pointing in the Dark: The Rout of Neo-Liberalism
It is, appropriately enough, gray and wet in Washington, DC this morning. Brilliant sunshine would be almost more irony than one could bear. Brexit was a stunner. Compared to Donald Trump, it was a popgun. It’s become overwhelmingly clear that the real cost of the Great Recession was not the cost of fighting our way…
Going to bed, looking at disaster
It looks like Trump is in. This has to be the saddest day of my life, worse than the assassination of JFK, of Vietnam, of the assassinations of RFK and Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1968 riots, sadder than 9/11, because we have done this to ourselves. America, I fear, has much to be…