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Tag Archives: U.S.
Немой
America has left me speechless. Thoughts are roiling in my head, but it would be pointless to let them out. This is the one exception. I am speechless.
Unhappy
The headline for a New York Times op-ed piece: “There is No Happy Ending to America’s Trump Problem.” Stop the presses! Fixing the biggest mistake in U.S. history will not be easy or painless! Who’d’a thunk? The task at hand … Continue reading
Christofascism
One year to the day after musing about the diet of fireflies, I am awash in bitter thoughts in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade being overturned by the U.S. Supreme Catholic Court. Yes, just days before, the USSCC threw … Continue reading
Hydrosonic
Months ago, Trump elicited guffaws in the non-Trumpist press and social media when he bragged about an amazing new “hydrosonic missile” purportedly under development. In the intervening time he has repeated the phrase—today, for instance: Note how he uses both … Continue reading
Terminology
“Please answer me quite frankly. Are you absolutely convinced it’s plague?” “You’re stating the problem wrongly. It’s not a question of the term I use; it’s a question of time.” “Your view, I take it,” the Prefect put in, “is … Continue reading
Rot
Donald John Trump was impeached yesterday. Finally. He got off with a mere two counts, but that is enough to tag him forever as a derelict thug. More importantly, perhaps, the impeachment process made glaringly obvious the thorough decrepitude of … Continue reading
Clausectomy
Josh Marshall, among many others, noted the tendentious editing perpetrated a month ago by the Don’s personal attorney general in ever so briefly summarizing the Mueller report, which was finally released today, sort of (lots of missing stuff). What William … Continue reading
Deliverance
Where, if we could, would we send him, this heartless ignorant shell of a man? Someplace without clean running water, neither hot nor cold, no water at all, let him clean himself in the dust by the road like a … Continue reading
Assessment
I gave him four months to do something right in his catastrophically miscast role as president of the United States. It is now clear that Trump is the most ignorant, stupid, selfish, self-centered, self-absorbed, needy, cruel, unhealthy, churlish, uncouth, petty, insular, … Continue reading
TRiUMPh
Now that the shock has worn off (and it was only a shock because the supposed pros who do the polls did a piss-poor job of it)—now that the shock has turned to mere wonder, I am filled with almost … Continue reading
