Enjoying the view from Limbo
Donald Trump has gotten himself into a pickle by issuing hush money payments during his presidential campaign to (at least) two bimbos he bedded years ago. Thinking this over again and again, I keep coming back to the question I wish to raise here: Why? Why, that is, should Trump, or his political handlers, have thought such payments advisable in the first place?...
The lawyer for pornographic actress “Stormy Daniels” has communicated with President Donald Trump via the latter’s preferred diplomatic channel, Twitter, by posting a photograph of a DVD along with a not-so-subtle warning that the President should take the disc’s contents very seriously. Does anyone really want to see how this plays out? I mean anyone who prefers America to reality television? Let’s get...
Made you look! Made you look! Some of you may be wondering why, despite the frequently topical nature of my political writing, there are certain topics of the moment to which I haven’t devoted any space as yet. The simple explanation comes from Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Book XII: “there are some things it is better not to see than to see.” In any case,...
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