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I could also call this “Beware the Ides of March.” As I sit here in New York at the moment, the third Covid-19 related death among over 700 cases in the state. Barely 72 hours ago, Familia Talking Dog returned from Spain, where coronavirus cases shot up in the four day period we visited, and now include 288 deaths and over 7,000 confirmed positive cases now. The Loquacious Pup was doing a semester abroad there (and in Paris– that ain’t happening), and so, instead… To be honest, we were scheduled to return today, and then we changed it to yesterday,...

February 29th only comes once every four years, so I thought I would take this opportunity to sneak a post in on this “extra” day. Right now, the world is convulsing through a COVID-19 viral outbreak that has not yet been termed a “pandemic,” but today, marked the first death within the borders of the U.S. Naturally, the President did what he always does and lied, first suggesting to one of his Nuremberg rallies that the whole thing was a hoax dreamed up by Democrats to discredit him (which he walked back… eventually), and then misidentifying the victim as a...

The novel corona virus originally centered in Wuhan, China now exceeds 71,000 cases world wide and over 1,700 deaths. Supposedly there are about 15 cases in the USA. The ordinary seasonal flu has infected over 250,000 people, with an estimated 14,000 deaths for the 2019 to 2020 flu season. I was wondering about some other things going on. In the most recent full year for which data is available (2018), world AIDS deaths were around 770,000. Meanwhile, in the ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, since the outbreak began in August 2018, there have been 3432 total cases...

And so we come to a day or two of “Question Time” or something during the third ever “impeachment trial,” in this case of “President” Donald John Trump, when the issue of “calling witnesses” may have spun beyond Senate Majority Leader Mitch “Dick Turtle” McConnell’s control, at least for the moment. Although, I tend to believe (1) there won’t be any witnesses called and (2) the impeachment “trial” will be promptly terminated by a majority vote entirely along party lines, because (3) we aren’t remotely a “democratic” country (if we ever were). So I thought this would be a pretty...

It seems fitting that my first post of the new decade will be GTMO related. For those who still care (which I hope is you), today marks 18 years since the opening of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, still home to forty men (some of whom were captured as boys). All Muslim. All foreign nationals. As usual, there will be a protest across the street from the White House. God willing, I will be there, as I have for the past several years. Andy will be there; hopefully, the Stately DogMobile will do the job along the various...

As I am writing this, late afternoon New Year’s Eve, I understand that various Iraqi militias allegedly linked to Iran have stormed the US embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, a $750 million behemoth. I understand that embassy personnel are trapped in a so called safe room there, and 100 US Marines are on their way. The President used the occasion of this crisis (which he caused through ill advised bombings of these militias in the first place and his withdrawal from Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran for no reason other than Obama is Black) to send hateful tweets about Joe Biden,...

Yes, yes, 23 December only comes once a year, friends. Don’t know what to say. In what I will just call incredibly irony, the President lashes out at the evils of… windmills. Apparently, you would go to jail for killing a bald eagle, whereas windmills kill billions of them. There is definitely the possibility of a Captain Queeg thing going on with the President, as impeachment takes its toll on him as his own supporters’ insistence on a sham trial designed to acquit him as opposed to an actual trial designed to acquit him seems to be taking him to…...

The House Judiciary Committee approved articles of impeachment against Chancellor Drumpf. Reichsfuhrer McConnell has vowed to rig the proceedings to ensure.an acquittal. This will permit Democrats to resume bashing Senator Warren for suggesting that Medicare for all is possible without a massive tax increase. In other words, happy Friday the 13th.

To Mrs. TD!

I am pleased to announce that Donald J. Putin on American Exceptionalism: It’s Not You, It’s Just America Being America is now available for pre-order on Amazon, per that link. Release date for the kindle version is Hillary’s birthday (and mine)– Saturday, 26 October. I hope to have the paperback ready to go by next week– but just a different set of logistics. I promised you all a literary project- or even more than one- at the beginning of the year, and by God, here it is. (Yes, that means that I am ghost-writing for my friend, Donald J. Putin....