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Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends
So it occurred to me that this guy. . . . . . is simply this guy. . . . . . with more hair and fewer prostitutes.
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Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
I would like to wish everyone, including all haters and losers (of which, sadly, there are many) a truly happy and enjoyable Memorial Day! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2015 Don’t ever...
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Circus Maximus MMXVI: Keep on keeping on
Sorry I haven’t been around much: a combination of delayed after-effects of an antibiotic and a tough week at work has left me in tatters. But: tonight is the GOPpers first [set of] debate[s], and I...
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Circus Maximus MMXVI: Send in the clowns
Note: I really don’t think this will end up being the case, but. . . If the other Republican candidates can’t figure out how to beat as manifestly unfit a candidate as Donald Trump, then they really...
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Circus Maximus MMXVI: We will we will rock you
Trump will not be the nominee of the Republican party. I’m not much for predictions, but I feel pretty good in making this one: he’s peaking too soon—the nomination fight won’t be decided until next...
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Circus Maximus MMXVI: Sh’ dooby
Yes, yes, yes! I was yelling at someone a week or so ago that the way to take Trump out is by mocking him. I mean, Jesus, is there anyone more mockable than The Donald? Mr. Winning? I mean, someone...
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Circus Maximus MMXVI: We are the sultans
Now, I’m not one of those who thinks Trump is a fascist*, largely because I have a(n overly?) strict definition of fascism, though I do concede that he’s plucking those führer chords pretty hard....
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Circus Maximus MMXVI: If you believed they put a man on the moon
Trump is not a fascist and the US is not Weimar, 1930 or 1932. Ah, fuck it. I was going to write a big, long post on what is fascism and what was Weimar, but, shit, I don’t think Trump will get the GOP...
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Circus Maximus MMXVI: What’s goin’ on?
I don’t understand. Many things, I don’t understand. For example, I don’t understand why I’m so lukewarm about Bernie Sanders and somewhat defensive about Hillary Clinton. I mean, I’m glad he’s in the...
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Circus Maximus MMXVI: Damned I am
I was wrong. Wroooooooooooongity wrong wrong WRONG. I never thought Trump would get this far, or that the hated Ted Cruz would end up his main challenger. I’ll hang on to my skepticism about him...
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Circus Maximus MMXVI: Do ya like it like that?
Five and a-half years ago I worried about the color of the sky in Sarah Palin’s world; half a year ago I suggested that Trump would only triumph* were he to keep on keepin’ on banging his own weird...
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So what happens now?
I’ve followed and enjoyed Jonathan Bernstein‘s disquisitions on American politics. I don’t always agree (his preference for the Madisonian presidential system, his views about money in politics), but...
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Circus Maximus MMXVI: Glad I’m not a Kennedy
Really, glad I’m not a Republican. I’m mean—yeah, given my views, obviously—but at least I don’t think either of the Democratic candidates is a dumpster fire. I’m not particularly enthusiastic about...
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Circus Maximus MMXVI: Hold me closer, tiny dancer
So, a coupla’ months ago I wondered why those who saw the Republican party as dysfunctional didn’t think to connect this dysfunction to an inability for the party to ‘decide’ on an acceptable nominee....
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Circus Maximus MMXVI: You’re so nice
When I lived in Minneapolis I used to gripe about “Minnesota Nice” by quoting the lines from Sondheim’s Into the Woods: You’re so nice. You’re not good, You’re not bad, You’re just nice. Fake, I’d...
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Circus Maximus MMXVI: And you try to run but he’s got a gun
I can’t be the only who, when she saw this: . . . immediately though of this:
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When they ask me, “What are you looking at?”
So, two months with the smart phone, and. . . all right, it’s all right. Mostly, because I’m paying less with this phone plan than I did with the last one, but also, those weather and MTA apps are...
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Circus Maximus MMXVI: Let’s get it on
And now there are two. Bernie Sanders put up a hell of a fight, and I don’t know that anyone, including he, thought he’d last into June. And if he wants to go thru the DC primary, well, why not? He’s...
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Circus Maximus MMXVI: All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter
Few bits: I’m a fan of President Obama’s cool-competence approach to governing, and think he’s right to wait a bit before visiting flooded Louisiana (or burnt-over California): aid before optics. That...
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Circus Maximus MMXVI: Go on and put your ear to the ground
I. The reasons someone supports a candidate you hate may not be the reasons you hate the candidate. I think Donald Trump a menace, an unstable, thin-skinned, ill-informed blowhard who built his...
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