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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Welcome to NotAmerica
{it's not a typo} Ever since Mark Carney got up at Davos, first quickly checking his facial expression for anything that might convey humanity, then promptly dousing it with RAID— —wagged his schoolmarm-y finger at the assembled beautiful people of Europe (and Donald Trump), and explained, as though to a bunch of depressed hormonal adolescents, … Continue reading Welcome to NotAmerica
Our Hearts Belong to Daddy
.... 'cause our daddy takes us to hell ... Good morning friends. My name is Mark, and I'm a bank manager. It's comforting to see you all here and know I don't need to struggle alone. I'm going to start my address in French, OK? Ahem: « Alors, le President ! Ostie qu’il m’énerve ! … Continue reading Our Hearts Belong to Daddy
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 …
How Would You Like the World to End?
a bang, a whimper and existential boredom seem to be the options. Where even to begin? We live in truly apocalyptic times, which nonetheless retain an undertone of slapstick comedy. It's "Titanic" meets "Duck Soup" by way of "Pride and Prejudice with Zombies". Are you sitting comfortably? No? Then you've got the idea. A few … Continue reading How Would You Like the World to End?
Trump’s Wish to End Canada’s Sovereignty…
Imagine, if you can hoist your face out of that highball glass filled with any alcohol you could afford, a powerful, increasingly authoritarian country ruled by a psychopath that seeks to expand its territory by any means available: economic terrorism and actual military action being the two means proposed. (Why would it do this? Just … Continue reading Trump’s Wish to End Canada’s Sovereignty…
A State of Heightened Tension
surviving the home stretch is a stretch I enter the final weekend before the divining of the US President with the quiet equanimity and fresh-faced optimism of Anna Karenina falling under the locomotive. Thinking about Donald Trump and the two alternatives of spending my twilight years in Donald’s mad, dark kingdom as he executes his … Continue reading A State of Heightened Tension
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
… Long Live the Donald?
The Founders rejected absolute monarchy in 1776. But in 2024, with republican ideals under siege and an autocrat telegraphing his readiness, a demoralized America appears ready to crown a new king. Donald Trump believes he has absolute immunity from prosecution for anything he did during his presidency; that the President, is, after all, above the … Continue reading … Long Live the Donald?
The King is Dead…
Rex Murphy took the dull, simple aria of white male grievance and turned it into operatic psychodrama. It’s been SO LONG since I posted here—I thought I would take a mental health break, but ultimately decided to run with the crazy—I’m anxious, completely disoriented, and basically behaving like my IQ is in single digits. I’m … Continue reading The King is Dead…