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Monthly Archives: March 2017

This health care stuff was gonna be sooooo easy

UncategorizedBy John YoungMarch 27, 2017Leave a comment

Act 1 of Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” features a put-down of a hollow braggart who “speaks an infinite deal of nothing.” Sort of reminds of the merchant of Mar-a-Lago and his first act as a legislative mastermind. “On my very first day in office,” said Donald Trump in October, in full bray about the Affordable Care…

Blind fury: F-rating for wreckage from Trumpcare

UncategorizedBy John YoungMarch 21, 2017Leave a comment

The Fujita scale is the “F” by which weather people rate tornadoes. F-1: a carport down. F-5: whole city blocks reduced to grout. We now lean on such comparisons in assessing the shades of disaster that would emanate from Trumpcare, especially compared with what Donald Trump claimed would happen. Trump the campaigner said his plan…

From the mind of Steve Bannon? No, Mel Brooks

UncategorizedBy John YoungMarch 13, 2017Leave a comment

“My, how presidential.” For all those, including the reputedly lucid, who said Donald Trump “turned a new page” with a “presidential” State of the Union, the next page he turned was a bucket of brine right in the kisser. You know now that as he left the House chamber his face turned south from what…

‘Flash! Russki device saps Team Trump of memories’

UncategorizedBy John YoungMarch 6, 2017Leave a comment

It looks like a simple fountain pen, but then: A flash of hyper-light in the eyes renders a person blissfully ignorant of what he did moments before — remembering nothing. In the movie “Men in Black,” it was called a neuralyzer. Is that the kind of technology the Russians deployed to drain members of Team…

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