Uncategorized

One day after Carrie Fisher died of a heart attack, Fisher’s mother, actress Debbie Reynolds, died at age 84 of a stroke. Pretty miserably awful. I got nothin’.

Her digs-ness points out the absurd wording of the GOP’s annual holiday messaging… Hey… I got nothin’…

Not yet the President Voldemort You-Know-Who suggests that the United States should expand its nuclear weapons capability. Apparently, this comes more or less around the same time that he pressured the Obama Administration with respect to a U.N. vote condemning Israeli settlements. I could go on. Times they are a changin’. That’s what a significant minority of American voters (adequately distributed under our slavery-era-invented electoral disposition to win) decided they wanted. The question is whether this person will lead us to ruination. “Developing.”

Item: A former RT (“Russia Today”) on-air anchor suggests that “there really isn’t a better mouthpiece for the Kremlin than Donald Trump.” Item: Media insider (and as offensive as anyone in this regard) Jake Tapper of ABC denies that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west the media was obsessed with coverage of the most picayune aspects of the DNC emails, Hillary emails and/or the Clinton Foundation while basically giving Trump a pass on his bad-ness. Good one, Jake. Honestly, our friend Professor Lemieux nails it by observing that the obsession with “fake news” overshadows the...

This just in from the beat poet of the far right: Sarah Palin (yes, that Sarah Palin) suggests “no worries, re: Russia… I’ll keep an eye on them from here.” More confirmation she’s not likely to be in the cabinet (unlike a neuro-surgeon in charge of housing, an Exxon exec and friend-of-Vlad in charge of policy helpul to Exxon and Vlad, Mrs. Mitch McConnell, a military general in charge of homeland security, an ex-Goldman Sachs employee and foreclosure maven in charge of Treasury, and a few assorted billionaires), because Washington, D.C. is just too far from Russia… so she won’t...

The Moderate Voice, a website on which, occasionally, a certain talking dog cross-posts, has been the subject of a recent series of cyber-attacks designed to silence it. Thing is, the site is called “the moderate voice” because it’s actually non-partisan: TMV editor-in-chief Joe Gandelman (himself a long-time pro-journalist) has invited countless bloggers over the years from every part of the political spectrum… it really is “politically moderate” when viewed as a whole. Alas, in the course of that, some posts from some perspectives will inevitably piss off someone… and now, that we have a thin-skinned whiner-in-chief (with no concern for...

In a fast-follow-up to an item I recently posted, we see the signature line of the president-elect’s best known public persona, the boss on The Apprentice, is used against an errant member of the transition team, to wit, Michael Flynn, Jr., is fired from the transition team for using Twitter to spread a fake news story. Not that there’s anything intrinsically wrong with that… when The Donald himself does it, of course. On this 75th anniversary of “the day that will live in infamy, America’s favorite “too much information” reporters at “538” tell us that there are only around 700,000...

Item: Michael Flynn, Jr., the son of incoming National Security Advisor (and retired general) Michael Flynn, who sports a Trump transition team e-mail address (and evidently performs services for said team) is evidently a connoisseur and spreader of White supremacist conspiracy theories and is quite active on White supremacist media platforms. Among the conspiracies he has peddled are gems such as Obama’s alleged Kenyan birth, or recently, the Comet Ping Pong Pizza fiasco; he is an aficionado of the platform “Gab,” which he has tried to get his father to join. Item: At least one Texas elector has “gone rogue”...

This piece from The Hill, suggests that big-money Democratic donors feel as if the money they gave to Hillary Clinton was just burned (it was). The “if only” part suggests, wistfully, that perhaps no rational person will ever give the Clintons another dime– for anything, ever again. Not a speech engagement, not a campaign contribution, not a “donation” to the “Foundation”… nothing. The Clinton Gang already has enough money for several lifetimes, thanks… no need to keep feeding that particular (Democratic-Party-killing) beast. As if… Then again, there are those who suggest that, as some sort of weird peace offering, Hillary...

We are shocked– shocked— to find that Steve Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker (related to a number of other GSers, btw), has been named as putative Treasury Secretary by the president elect. Oh… who can forget this one: Yeah… how about that?