Enjoying the view from Limbo
The baby boomer generation, or rather the portion of that generation that did not permanently lose itself in the “drug culture” of the 1960s, invented the phrase “The Greatest Generation” to describe those Americans who had lived through, and won, World War II. That is to say, they invented this nickname to describe their parents. A quaint tribute, much like giving your mother...
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...
As Trump’s admirers inundated us with their year-end “Wishlist fulfilled!” declarations last week, detailing (without differentiation) the accomplishments, pending accomplishments, or dubious rhetorical “accomplishments” of his first year, I have begun to notice a distinctly familiar aura about this presidency — a fairly predictable aura to anyone who has been observing Trump from outside his cult’s myopic circus tent: the aura of the...
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