Alternative Worlds Elvis and Others by Alan Vanneman Many scientists have advanced the concept of a “multiverse”, a near-infinite number of alternative realities that co-exist with our own, yet can never be observed by us. If this theory is true, then there are perforce a near-infinite number of Elvis Presleys, some differing only slightly from…
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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…
“Summery” is the cruelest of homonyms
Or non-homographic homophones, to be more precise. That is to say, a word that “Word” will not mark as incorrectly spelled, even though it’s not the word you meant, because you misspelled the word you meant. The most common of these little buggers, to use a more convenient term, are possessives/plurals, which, I suspect, will…
Stormy Update: Memo to Karen: Get it in writing, honey!
Earlier this week, I remarked on the lack of attention being paid to Karen McDougal, 1998 Playmate of the Year, and sometime playmate for Donald Trump, according to the New Yorker, thanks to the now standard avalanche of new scandals and disasters that now fill what we must call “Trump Time”. Why not at least…
You know who I feel sorry for? Karen McDougal, that’s who I feel sorry for.
Remember Karen McDougal? She used to be big. Well, biggish. Well, on the road to biggish, definitely, when it was “revealed” a couple of weeks ago in America’s bible of titillation, the New Yorker, that the 1998 Playmate of the Year had an affair with a married Donald Trump back in the day and had…
The Apotheosis of Paul Ryan is the Apotheosis of Hypocrisy
It is likely that Republicans in Congress will pass something resembling House Speaker Paul Ryan’s tax package—because if they don’t they’ll look like complete fools, and they’d rather fuck up the country than look like that. It’s “amusing” that everyone, even me, has pointed to the massive Republican hypocrisy of having spent eight long years…
Yo, Frank Rich! Want to beat Trump! REPEAL RENT CONTROL!
New York’s Frank Rich has an always hilarious and frequently accurate takedown of what Manhattanite Frank deems “Hillbilly Chic”, the new fashion for feeling the pain of the OxyContin-poppin’ white trash who supposedly put Donald Trump in the White House. As Frank shrewdly points out, if Hillary hadn’t pocketed over $21 million in speaking fees…
Why Did Hillary “Lose”?
The most important, and the ugliest, thing to happen in 2016 was the decision of 46 percent of the American electorate to vote for the worst major party presidential candidate in American history. The second most important was the decision of 48 percent to vote for Hillary Clinton. So why did Hillary “lose”? It is…
One for George
I basically called George Will a shithead—or at least a periwighead, which is pretty much the same thing—a couple of days ago. Well, that was then, this is now. Now is George hitting one out of the park, labeling incoming attorney general Jeff Sessions a shithead for his championing of “civil forfeiture”, aka “stealing”—when the…
Eli Lake, from 20/80 to 80/20, pretty much
Back in the day—July 10, 2014, to be precise—I whaled on Bloomberg’s Eli Lake for pulling together a lot of ass-covering/blame-shifting “if only the president had listened to me” quotes from former members of the Obama Administration to explain why the government of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki failed to prevent the rise of…