Right-wing double domes, some of them with hair, have been both generating and garnering pixels with critiques of our president’s character. Too much Woody Allen, not enough Gary Cooper, says Peggy Noonan, who seems to have started the ball rolling. Narcissistic and domineering (ya think?), says Charles Krauthammer. Not sufficiently Greek, says David Brooks. I’m…
“We” married him? John, honey, you created him!
John Podhoretz, like me, wishing the hell that Donald Trump wasn’t president, writes the following: “The issue with Trump is that his approach can only be called ‘the politics of unseriousness.’ He engages with no issue, merely offers a hostile and pithy soundbite bromide about it. He yammers. He describes how wonderful things will be…
Mitch McConnell, boneless or soulless? Or both?
Winston Churchill, clearly in a bitchy mood, once said of Labor Party Leader Ramsey MacDonald “I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum’s Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The…
That gosh darn media! GOSH DARN IT!
You may have read about Donald Trump’s utterly disgusting speech to an assembly of police officers in Long Island during which he enouraged the assembled cops to “rough up” suspects and assured the boys in blue that although current laws “totally protect the criminal, not the officers, we’re changing those laws.” Well, I didn’t read…
John McCain, suddenly, strangely, fortunately virtuous
John McCain, throughout his career, has had a habit of talking big and acting small, as he did last Tuesday, correctly denouncing the absurd process by which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell manufactured a grotesque piece of non-legislation, a gesture rather than a bill, that would pretend to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act…
Republicans Show Some Bottom (but not much)
You may remember Bottom’s Dream from A Midsummer Night’s Dream—“past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was–there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had, but man is but a patched…
Sauce for the goose
Over at the National Review, David French has a piece, Media, Tell the Truth: The Women’s March and Black Lives Matter Embrace Terrorists, rightfully pointing out that officials within Women’s March have repeatedly praised “revolutionary” murderer Assata Shakur, while Black Lives Matter officials have praised Fidel Castro for nobly protecting Shakur and other noble black…
Jungha Lee & Sergej Avanesov–“Trinkle Tinkle”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_msKqhVFzSc Jungha on piano and Sergej on sax. Posted by seergejavanesov3
Norman Rockwell, Social Justice Warrior
Not too long ago, I belonged to an online group, to which I no longer belong. Someone posted a collection of Norman Rockwell’s still famous (I guess) Saturday Evening Post covers and, as I glanced through them, I grew a little irritated by the relentless parade of happy, fifties, middle-class WASPs. I actually grew up…
Ramesh Ponnuru, last seen trumpin’ Trump
There was a time, so I’ve been told, when Ramesh Ponnuru was considered a reasonable man. Well, here is his latest posting, in full, “Trump v. Sessions, Rosenstein, and Mueller, over at the National Review: “If the attorney general isn’t doing his job properly; if the deputy attorney general is hopelessly conflicted; if the special…