The latest chapter in the ongoing farce does not reflect well on Dear Leader, but Anderson should have flipped this one, because the clown is what everyone else sees, while how he sees himself is not just as a normal man but as a hero.Seriously. He posted this on his Truth Social page. The man […]
First, this update: Infantino has withdrawn his cunning plan to sell off part of FIFA to a consortium. Seems the universal hatred of the idea got through to him.That’s why people should speak up. On a related note, the public comment period for the FCC’s attack on the ABC network’s owned-and-operated stations has ended. According […]
I like Molina’s political commentary and agree that it feels as if the Trump gang just pulled an oldie-but-goodie campaigning point out of the files. Maybe it’s a hangover from Dear Leader’s early reliance on Tailgunner Joe’s old lawyer, Roy Cohn. It’s a stupid, pointless, evil thing to grab at, but we’ve seen stupid, pointless, […]
It’s interesting that satire can bring a smile even when there’s nothing funny about it, and by framing this in a well-established, popular satire, the Simpsons, Ruben Bolling boosts the humor quotient to compensate for the horror he’s describing. Then he touches it off by having the Haitian Simpsons sheltered by their silly, fatuous neighbor, […]
This is where I’ve landed on the Odyssey movie. I’ve heard it praised and I’ve heard it trashed and the outcome seems to be that it’s neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring and I know herring is a fish, but there’s your problem: The idiom is poetic and apparently we can’t have that.Just […]
(It’s just a manly phase we’re going through.)Lieutenant Dangerous points out that we’re not at war with Iran, because, if we were at war, the president’s 60 days would have run out and he’d have to go to Congress to get permission under the War Powers Act to keep blowing things up.We were doing Operation […]
I didn’t watch the White House Concubines Association dinner, but I’ve certainly seen a mountain of videos, summaries and outraged reactions. Someone asked on-line why everyone in the room didn’t get up and walk out when he insulted Kaitlin Collins, but that’s a silly question, because the fact that they were even there answers it. […]
Benson’s provokes a double-take, by positing the panic she says that Democrats are in because James Carville said they should stop fighting Voter ID laws. It raises the important question, “Who’s fighting Voter ID laws?”I’m not crazy about requiring photo ID, because in rural areas, they can be hard to get. You vote in your […]
Had a medical thing that involved a nerve block that hasn’t worn off, so I’m typing one-handed. That ought to keep my observations pithy. Yes, of course it’s my left that works. And, no, I’m not lefthanded.The dog goes everywhere with me, which makes for more exciting reunions on the rare times she doesn’t. Do […]
Nothing grabs public attention like poop, and there have been a whole lot of cartoons showing Uncle Sam or Liberty or Donald J. on the toilet. The source of all this is interesting, because it’s a parasite rather than a bacterial outbreak, and I heard an interesting conversation about it on 1A, but it seems […]
The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. — Sun TzuSome follow Sun Tzu, some read von Clausewitz, the best study both. And then there’s Pete Hegseth, who apparently follows gladiator and kung-fu movies and, as Anderson suggests, […]
I haven’t decided whether to go see the Odyssey, but I did decide to go ahead and review the spoilers by reading a Guardian piece about what they changed. The point is, if you’ve read the Big Three — the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Aeneid — you know the story and the “spoilers” become […]
First Dog reminds us that Big Brother isn’t the only one watching, and he’s not making up that bit about self-driving cars, because a Waymo taxi snitched on some drunken teenagers who were shooting plastic pellets out its windows.Which is one of those things where maybe it’s good that kids can’t get away with anything […]
President Trump’s speech last week has drawn poor reviews, which is an unusual response to presidential addresses, though in this case, the message was so clearly partisan that ABC and NBC declined to cover it except on their online news channels, and CBS and even Fox cut away and downplayed it when it became obvious […]
I don’t know that people overseas have a clearer view of our situation, but perhaps it’s easier to laugh at existential dread when you’re observing from afar. Not that there isn’t concern about the effects, because what happens in the United States certainly doesn’t stay in the United States, but what distance there is between […]