The Hegemon has Monetized First, let me remind you about The Speech at Davos. Remember The Speech? Mark Carney, wearing his finest dress toga, drew a line in the sand, clearly aimed / not-aimed at Trump. (If anyone doesn’t know what Davos is, it’s what you do when you’re rich enough to vacation in Switzerland … Continue reading I Guess Canada Doesn’t Do Rule of Law Anymore
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Here Comes the Insurrection Act
Renée Good's Death is the Flower of Trump's Psychopathy I wonder if anyone else has had the feelings of numbness, of helplessness and despair, of unreality and dissociation, that I have had these past few days. There is an image, a video clip, really, that I can't get out of my brain. It loops on … Continue reading Here Comes the Insurrection Act
The Dumb-roe Doctrine
out with the sovereignty; in with the Lebensraum New World Order: Part Two "We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny." President William McKinley, 1898 Happy January 6th Insurrectio-versary to you! Please accept this bedraggled copy of Nancy Pelosi's day planner, with a big, … Continue reading The Dumb-roe Doctrine
All Gay Men are Traumatized …
... and straight men, generally, have an Epstein problem Epstein and Trump: Bosom Buddies 1. The Lie that Never Dies I don't know about the current crop of fledgling fags just learning to navigate the life-path littered with land mines that will be their lot, but decades ago, when I was a fledgling fag, one … Continue reading All Gay Men are Traumatized …
Is Trump the Real Enemy of Democracy?
Or is it the American People? The U.S. is still reverberating from the stunning success of Zohran Mamdani, a thirty-three-year-old Muslim and a member of the New York State Assembly since 2021, in the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York City. He easily toppled the lack-luster and troublesome centrist Andrew Cuomo, and his victory … Continue reading Is Trump the Real Enemy of Democracy?
I’m Living Through History
And it's even less fun than it sounds THIS SUMMER OF THE YEAR TWENTY TWENTY-FOUR of the Common Era, a summer of ominous extremes of climate and conflict, finds me living through history, at least so the news anchors tell me. The implication is that I should be awe-struck and grateful for waking up in … Continue reading I’m Living Through History
Dems Reeling as Kyrsten Sinema Retaliates
Kyrsten: Mistress of the Dems! With a startling and cynical manoeuvre that has left the Democratic congress in tatters, Kyrsten Sinema — miffed when Chuck Schumer advised her, via text: “No third-act redemption for YOU, Little Miss Stonewall, I’m gonna play with the cool kids from now on! Nyaaaaah!” — decided to send everyone at the Capitol a message … Continue reading Dems Reeling as Kyrsten Sinema Retaliates
Amy Coney Barrett is an Actual Handmaid
I wish I was joking ♥ for Roz My suspicions were first aroused when Amy Coney Barrett—and do you mind if I just refer to her from now on as "ACB"? I have my health to consider—when ACB remarked, apropos the MO of Supreme Court Justices, "We're not just a bunch of partisan hacks!" I … Continue reading Amy Coney Barrett is an Actual Handmaid
Extremists are Treating Biden Like He’s Not the Legit President
The problem is they're on the Left. When is a President not a President? When seventy percent of Republicans believe that Biden stole the election from Trump, accepting without reservation Trump’s astonishing, brazen lie that he lost only through deliberate and massive voter fraud — which every election official, right or left, affirms did not … Continue reading Extremists are Treating Biden Like He’s Not the Legit President
No Health in Us
What white people talk about when they talk about racism... ... We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us ... —from the order for Morning Prayer, Book of Common Prayer, 1662 … Continue reading No Health in Us