Showing posts with label Donald Trump. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donald Trump. Show all posts
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Revisiting Neil Postman's bet on Huxley over Orwell.

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My old friend John Campbell posted on Facebook: "Aldous Huxley was right, not George Orwell." Before repeating John's quoted p...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Trump and toxic masculinity: "The core struggle for men is not with one another, but between our own warring selves."

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If the rot is as deep as it seems, many of the enablers will begin slipping away to preserve future self-aggrandizement opportunities. It...
Friday, October 09, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: I'm voting for Biden. Otherwise it's Trump's burgeoning fascist GOP death cult.

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photo credit It’s bizarre the way that memories can stay with us for decades, and then we awaken to find it's hard to recall what we ha...
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Monday, October 05, 2020

Fire Donald Trump: "We have no illusions about Biden, but we need him to win."

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There are times when it's necessary to stop the bleeding first, then determine what's to occur next. This triage scenario is peak ...
Monday, September 28, 2020

Who will Trump's cultists blame when they finally understand they've been conned?

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(Be aware:  NAC is going away soon ) Donald Trump's entire "career" in and out of politics has been one long, sustained confi...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER: This three-hour documentary film about George Corley Wallace is a must-watch.

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I didn't expect to embark this week upon a long-delayed detour through the life of George C. Wallace (1919-1998) in order to process w...
Tuesday, July 07, 2020

Trumpolini's bogus pandemic stats and the flowering of the GOP's death cult.

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You're entitled to your own opinion, just not your own facts. Donald Trump rushed to reopen America – now Covid is closing in on h...
Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Trump's biblical photo op? It was American history in a nutshell.

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The Economist believes  America's chronic anger  has led to this violent juncture. That's surely true. But where does the anger ...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Social restrictions, bullying and reopening: It's all about consumer behavior.

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I'm no fan of Politico , but this piece is solid. Key point: “Unfortunately, resuming normal activity cannot be achieved by diktat ...
Sunday, March 01, 2020

"I’d love, in other words, some journalism."

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"I have my own theories. Primarily that this is a delayed reaction to the financial crash of 2007, which showed so many Americans that...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

LIVE TO EAT AND DRINK: "It’s unsurprising that the two crucial figures in Tiki’s history were notorious liars."

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Photo credit. “It’s hard to appropriate a culture that was made up in the first place.” “A nostalgia that is nostalgic for nostalgia...
Thursday, October 31, 2019

Trump at Game 5: Live by the theatrical gesture, die by the theatrical gesture.

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Reminiscent of John 3:16? I'll remember the World Series as the first time in a long while that I rooted for a National League team...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

"The unraveling of Rudy Giuliani."

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Or, as another writer sought to explain, "How Rudy Giuliani went from a respected federal prosecutor and beloved NYC mayor to Trump...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Hunter Biden, et al: "Donald Trump committed an impeachable offense, but prominent Americans also shouldn’t be leveraging their names for payoffs from shady clients abroad."

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More essential reading. If we're to endure this impeachment process, it seems a shame to condone one variety of corruption while prosec...
Thursday, July 04, 2019

Proper reading for Independence Day: "How to Properly Criticize RussiaGate."

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"RussiaGate has been a great diversion and 'the bear ate our homework' excuse for the awfulness of the dismal, dollar-drench...
Sunday, June 09, 2019

Here's a scrap for the AdamBot: "The One Thing Trump Gets Right About Tariffs."

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"For the past few decades, policymakers have embraced neoliberalism, a broadly open-market political philosophy whose effects have b...
Friday, May 24, 2019

The Espionage Act: Indicting journalists in a war against freedom of the press.

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Then Donald Trump takes power and immediately begins using the playbook refined and sharpened by his predecessor, President Obama. This...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Russiagate: "The question now is, has the Mueller report finally freed up the rest of us to challenge the more insane flights of fantasy?"

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But was it consummated? As usual The Onion wins. Shocked Vladimir Putin Slowly Realizing He Didn’t Conspire With Trump Campaign  ( ...
Monday, January 07, 2019

America as planetary policeman: "When an entire political establishment says a decision is mad, I tend to think something in it must be right."

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From the very inception of this blog in 2004, our credo has remained consistent. New Albany is a state of mind … but whose? Since 2004...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Satire alert: Trump tells Gahan, "I can fix your Riverview Tower problem."

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With apologies to the President.