Thursday, October 2, 2025

Bull in a China Shop

Just a thought about the Age of Trump.  I've never really been angry at Trump.  I've pitied him, because he is a pitiful, ignorant, amoral narcissist with powerful friends and his father's money.  Trump is not who is at fault:  we are at fault.  We voted him in, twice.

I didn't, of course.  Neither did you, probably.  But that doesn't matter.  That doesn't separate us from "the American people."  It doesn't even separate us from "the American electorate."  We let him in.  We knew he was a a pitiful, ignorant, amoral narcissist with powerful friends.  Now he's just being him, in an environment which happens to be custom made for his (and his powerful handlers') particular kinks.

A bull in a China shop is going to cause an enormous amount of damage.  But it's not the bull's fault.  The bull is just being a bull in a new environment.  It's the fault of whoever let him into the shop in the first place. 

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Probably Mostly Accurate

 


“. . . and then Randy Quaid yells, ‘Hello, boys, I’m back!,’ and flies his jet right into the alien ship, blowing it up, and I think you all just need to be more like that.”

                                                                                                                    The New Yorker, today

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Pep Talk

Donald "Bone Spurs""Veterans are losers and suckers" Trump has said he would like to show up at Pete Hegseth's meeting of all US military command staff today and give them "a pep talk." 

 Wouldn't you love to see that? 

 Me neither.

Sunday, September 28, 2025

True Things 4

Larry Ellison is, apparently, the owner of NBC, CNN, TikTok (only recently, of course), and Oracle, a company that seems to have access to an unimaginable landscape of data, including yours and mine.

During Oracle's 2024 Financial Analyst Meeting in Las Vegas this month, which he joined by video, he said, ""Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly watching & recording everything that's going on."  This was presented as a good thing.

Behave.