Disruptions, Relativism, Witches and The Constitution

Reading time – 5:10; Viewing time – 7:24  .  .  . It’s time for some brutal satire. In the early days of Saturday Night Live! Chevy Chase was doing the Weekend Update and reported a tragedy, roughly remembered as, “A Japan Airlines 747 crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 385 passengers and crew aboard. But… [read more]


Potpourri v6.0

Reading time – 4:32; Viewing time – 6:38  .  .  . Good news! This is a safe place, because there’s no coverage of Russian conspiracy, plea deals, Trump fact checking, stupid tweets, emoluments, an unworthy AG, sucking up to Saudi Arabia and Putin, obstruction of justice, temper tantrums at the G20-Argentina, a $50 million penthouse… [read more]


Perversion

Reading time – 4:41; Viewing time – 6:43  .  .  . First they were the “silent majority.” Then they were “values voters,” which seemed to imply that those who didn’t see things exactly their way had no values. Now they’re “the base” or “Evangelicals.” Regardless of the label, they were and are focused on being… [read more]


Potpourri v5.0

Reading time – 2:55; Viewing time – 3:47  .  .  . I attended a demonstration last week in Naples, FL. This was one of the over 1,000 demonstrations spread among all 50 states protesting the Matt Whitaker appointment as acting Attorney General, seen as the first concrete step to Trump neutering the Mueller investigation. We… [read more]


Break the Glass!

Reading time – 1:01  .  .  . Donald Trump just crossed a red line. President Trump has now made the first clear and substantive move to end Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation by firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and putting into his place Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker. Whitaker was formerly a pundit who publicly… [read more]


There’s Only One Message

Reading time – 2:49; Viewing time – 4:01 .  .  . – with a special message from Carl Reiner VOTE! Everything else is secondary. Read Tom Friedman’s piece – he explains it better than I can. Just a few more comments. Trump showed up on that enormously painful day after having been asked to stay… [read more]


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