Enjoying the view from Limbo
A few hours ago, Charlie Kirk, a young man with a family, was shot dead at a university speaking event in Utah. An ugly occurrence no matter how you cut it. I notice that video of the shooting is all over the internet. I have not seen any of this video, and will do everything in my power never to see it. I...
With each new stage of Trump’s infinite self-diminution and national surrender before the will of Vladimir Putin, the Republican Party’s infinite elasticity and deference to the incredible shrinking president becomes more alarming and nauseating. I cannot help observing how all this Republican shrinkage before the Russian dictator is having the curious effect, whether it be absolute or merely relative, of enlarging and elevating...
Back when the Tea Party looked like a constitutionalist movement, rather than a bunch of frightened apron-string clingers at Uncle Donnie’s heels, one of their great hopes for wresting control of the Republican Party from the Rove-McConnell establishment was to challenge GOP senators and congressmen in state primaries. One marquee target of such a challenge was John McCain. Sarah Palin thwarted them. Palin,...
As word came that John McCain had discontinued treatment for his brain cancer, one knew it was only a matter of milliseconds before America’s national brain cancer, Trumpism, metastasized into a mass of agonizingly idiotic cultist attacks against the senator. What better opportunity for tearing down a man’s life and legacy, the malignancy reasoned, than the moment of his final trial? And so...
My morning news check turned up the headline that John McCain has decided to discontinue treatment for brain cancer, which of course means he is nearing the end, and has given up any hope of recovery. Immediately, I thought, “They’ll have to shut down the internet for a few days to keep Trump’s morons from exposing their spiritual ugliness to the world.” Not surprisingly,...
Remember that moment during a GOP primary debate when Donald Trump was asked whether members of the U.S. Armed Forces should be expected to follow his illegal orders to commit acts commonly designated war crimes, and answered, “They won’t refuse, they’re not gonna refuse me [pointing at himself to emphasize his personal power], believe me”? Here is the video of that disgraceful moment:...
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