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I am pleased to say that Familia TD spent a pleasant (if frenetic) week outside of the jurisdiction of the Trump Administration in the (quite literally) great White North… nay, even further north, where I ran in the 35th Reykjavik Marathon (the plus/minus six hour finishing time consistent with what I’ve come to expect as a heavier than I’d like to be man in my mid-50’s). Mrs. TD and the soon-returning-to-college Loquacious Pup and I all enjoyed some fabulously clean, brisk air and amazingly good food amidst one of the world’s most fascinating landscapes (including volcanos and geothermal emanations that...

Regular readers (thank you, whomever you are… Lord knows I don’t post enough to warrant your continued interest, so thanks again! Although feel free to check out my “good friend” Donald J. Putin, who posts dozens of times a day) are aware that among my illustrious college classmates at Columbia University’s final all-male class in 1983 were lawyer and failed judicial candidate Miguel Estrada, master of the universe Daniel Loeb, and an obscure fellow named Barack H. Obama, who went on to become the 44th President of the United States. Barack, like me, was a political science major concentrating in...

So it’s July 4th. And You Know Who is President of the United States, and doing what he does. Meanwhile, a whole lot of Republican Senators and members of Congress are celebrating it in Moscow, presumably because securing Russian cooperation in their upcoming elections is more important than pitching to voters. Meanwhile, something like 14,000 new citizens took their oath of citizenship today. At the same oment that the You -Know-Who Administration plans on launching Space Force a task force devoted to stripping naturalized citizens of their citizenship (read “from NON-WHITES”). And on this 242nd anniversary of a group of...

For various reasons, I haven’t been blogging much since You Know Who took the oath of office, replacing my college classmate Barack. I’ve also spent a lot of time with my good friend Donald J. Putin, laughing at You Know Who 280 characters at a time. In our usual theme, Candace observes things are taking a depressing turn as the Pentagon is seeking funding to turn GTMO into an old folks home and hospice, i.e. removing any pretense that the thing will not hold its occupants for the rest of their natural lives. Certainly, You Know Who promised not to...

What to make of the President (sigh) and his decision to abruptly withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action better known as the Iran nuclear deal? The obvious reason, and frankly, not to be taken too lightly for a “leader” whose views of the world appear to be shaped solely by comic books and their cable news equivalent on Fox, is that he wanted to just un-do everything Barack Obama did, because, well, Trump is like that. A narrow-minded racist asshole. All true, but… Of course, there is the simple geo-political reality that there is an Israel/Saudi axis of...

As those of you intrepid (or curious) enough to keep checking back in here are aware, there was an “account suspended” message up for a couple of weeks, while you pondered “Has the talking dog gone the way of oh so many of those other old blogs?” The answer was “maybe,” but is now a resounding “hell no.” We have resolved our technical issues, and are back, preaching to our millions thousands hundreds dozens of loyal readers. Preaching what? Damned if I know. It’s once again way too late in spring coming, and my vegetable garden is not installed (although...

And A zissen Pesach to those who understand. April Fool’s Day had been one of the cherished days here at TTD. The all-time most viewed post was our interview with Donald Rumsfeld in 2007; other such 1st of April interviews included Dick “go fuck yourself” Cheney, and of course, the current (ahem) so-called President. It’s as every bit relevant today as it was when first posted in 2016. But it’s now 14 months and 11 days or so into our national nightmare, with no end in sight (apologies to Mr. Mueller, but I just don’t see this ending before January...

Today, as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom concluded that a former Russian spy and his daughter were attacked with a deadly nerve agent that originated in Russia and that it was likely the handiwork of the Russian state, and warned of reprisals by the U.K., but… for its part… as with all things Russia, the White House refused to acknowledge Russian involvement in the Sergei Skirpal poisoning.Perhaps still having not recovered from an illness acquired on his trip to Africa, Secretary of State Rex Tilllerson did seem to acknowledge a Russian link. Rex will be spoken to, I’m...

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TD law school classmate Harvey Rishikoff has just been summarily sacked as the Guantanamo “convening authority” (i.e. civilian official in charge of the military commissions). Mr. Rishikoff had intervened to stop the absurd “contempt” jailing of the chief defense attorney for the (absurd) Guantanamo military commissions, and tried to have a new facility built because of accusations that defense attorney-client conversations were monitored at existing facilities … anyway, now that the President has reversed the last President’s executive order to close Guantanamo, it seems open season on reason, and so, Harvey is out, as is another Pentagon official associated with...