Turkeys and Drumsticks 2024
Donald Trump is now permanently ineligible for these awards since he was the first recipient of the lifetime achievement award last year.
Category: Feature
I Told You So
Over the past few days, I’ve seen several conservative pundits who supported Trump lamenting the president-elect’s appointments.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Game Awards Game of the Year Nominees are in
The big drama this year is that the Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree is on the list when, you guessed it, it’s a DLC.
POETS Day! Thomas Hardy Learns About Dames
I’m not immune from the sort of self-flattery that arises when someone whose writing I respect enforces a gut felt but not fully considered opinion.
Linky Friday: Cabinet Shopping, President Trump Style
This is going to be a fun transition for the content creators as President-elect Trump fills out his administration
The Mandate That Wasn’t
Donald Trump may not be concerned about electoral blowback from unpopular policies and alienating voters, but other Republicans should be.
All the President’s Nominees: The Legion of Groom
Trump is not playing 4-D chess. He is forcing the Republican Party to play 1-D Twister, tying themselves into knots of blind obedience.
Safe Travels, Arthur Frommer
I am very thankful for those Frommer’s recommendations during what proved to be a formative period of my own life.
How Republicans Can Save Trump’s Presidency
Keeping Trump focused and tethered to reality is the only way to salvage the next four years to any extent.
POETS Day! The Dreaded Poet Voice
The trick to a good reading of most poetry seems to be in courting but not abusing suspension of disbelief.
North Korea Is Still In Russia Trying To Kill Ukrainians
If North Koreans can be moved to Russia they can be moved to Syria or Africa. Two places where Russia sells its brand of security. Brutal, violent and cruel.
An Electorate in the Delphi Jury Box
Learning from our mistakes is not historically our strong suit, but will we this time? Jury is still out.
The Four Stages of Post-election Cruelty
Much post-mortem election caterwauling is less analysis and more flagellation of the electorate that didn’t vote the way it was supposed to
Welcome to the Idiocracy
To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, Americans voted for Trumpism and they deserve to get it good and hard.
3 Headed Monster of the New Trump Diplomatic Machine: Cerberus with a hand shake.
A 3-front fight where two are already hot looms heavy over the horizon. Brace yourselves.
97th Oscars Projections: The Awards Season Kickoff
The fact is that elections’ results have, and will, affect what Academy voters’ tastes are like for the season.
Series! Recap of World Series of the 2020s
It’s time for our quinquennial recap of recent World Series.
Trump’s Ace in the Hole
I guess I knew that, someday, I’d be around to watch the 250th birthday of our country but never gave it much thought beyond that.
He Got Away With It
I’ve sometimes been told that my animosity toward Trump and Trumpism verges on the irrational — “Trump Derangement Syndrome”, as his most ardent defenders call it.
POETS Day! Horace: Ode III, XXX
The nose wiping comment has me thinking that Roman colloquialisms are beyond my ken, so I’m not reading as much into that as I could.
