In scary fiction from yesteryear, the Wicked Witch of the West held a young Kansas girl’s life in limbo behind castle walls because she wanted her magic shoes. In scarier reality this year, the Wicked SOB of the East holds the lives of 790,000 young Americans in limbo because he wants his wall. Donald Trump…
DetailsAs Senate deliberations and the federal government ground to a halt, Donald Trump was doing what he does best: watching TV. That’s what the White House reported. Thanks for the advisory. Trump was watching Fox News, most certainly. Or maybe something better was on Netflix. Nah, he watched cable as he always does. Watched and…
DetailsWherever he resides in the afterlife, George Carlin is having a bleeping good time. One of the comedian’s “seven words you can’t say on TV” is being said on TV over and over again – starts with “sh” and features “it” — and getting bleeped, or someone is attempting a weak euphemism. The thing is,…
DetailsAs lightning bolts go, the juice within the 336 pages of Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” is sufficient to melt a man’s wingtips. However: Did we really need Wolff’s reportage of it to know that Donald Trump is infantile, intemperate and spectacularly unfit to be president? No, we didn’t. We have read the man’s tweets.…
DetailsThose Republican branding wizards. You’ve got to give it to them: “Pro-life.” “Real America.” “Family values.” Can’t defeat those. As we enter a new year, however, Republicans are dealing with these brands: “Trump”; “McConnell-Ryan Congress”; “Tax cuts for the super-wealthy.” Trump: the least truthful, least honorable, least ethical president in history. McConnell-Ryan: the least popular…
DetailsIt was the year of the “angry fire god.” In the ’90s comedy “Joe Versus the Volcano,” that was the islanders’ name for the great Volcano Woo — a role that our president sought to reprise in 2017. From on high, Donald Trump flung smoke and rocks and steam. He slurred his words as his…
Details“Good one,” said the creepy little man on Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ shoulder: “Litigated.” The White House spokeswoman had just said questions pertaining to the sexual assaults (alleged), or sexual harassment (alleged), or aggressive perversity (certifiable) by Donald Trump had been “litigated and certainly answered” in the 2016 election. This would make it the only case…
DetailsThe man didn’t look like he was from Mar-a-Lago – very gaunt, sort of green, parts of him having fallen off. But, of course, Marley the accountant had returned from the grave. “How did you get in here?” asked Donald Trump. “How did you become president?” asked Marley. “Some things have no earthly explanation.” “Ah,…
Details“President Donald Trump’s rally in Missouri was a set-piece of distortion about taxes and the economy” that “compounded his growing legacy of false tales on Twitter . . .” Those weren’t the opening lines from some loser liberal commentator. They were from the Associated Press. The editors at AP at some point realized that their…
DetailsWhether he acknowledges it or not, in large part Donald Trump owes his presidency to the youth vote — or the lack of it. More precisely, he owes a lot to youth apathy or a general malaise regarding ballot choices. (Any progressives now seeking a Mulligan for that Jill Stein vote?) Things have changed. Observe…
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