The Taliban are Already Playing Trump
The Taliban aren’t waiting for the inauguration to test Donald Trump’s presidential mettle. They’ve released a video of their American hostage, Kevin King, and Australian, Timothy Weeks. In the video,…
The Mound of Sound
He Just Can’t Stop Lying.
The latest. Donald Trump claims that America’s Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, “called him to ‘denounce the false and fictitious’ report that Russia held compromising information about the president-elect.”The…
Coming Apart at the Seams. Can Trump Lie His Way Out This Time?
As scandals go, this one is really complicated. It involves a blowhard businessman/incoming chief of state of questionable mental stability and the sexual appetites of a goat; more than a…
Here’s an Idea
Thank Loki I no longer work in a congested downtown core. From what I’ve heard it’s gotten vastly worse since I took my leave. A new struggle has emerged, bicyclist…
Credibility
Donald Trump will match his credibility against Christopher Steele’s anytime. That’s Trump’s problem. If there’s anything that the last two years have proven, daily, it’s that Donald J. Trump is…
The FBI, Director Comey, the New York Field Office and, Behind the Curtain, Rudy.
There may be no smoking gun yet but there’s smoke, loads of smoke. We don’t know yet whether the PervertGate scandal is even real, or real enough, to leave the…
A Backstory Fitting For a Le Carre Novel
The PervertGate scandal caught pretty much everybody by surprise. Pretty much everybody but not entirely. The Guardian has the backstory of the dossier on Trump and his dealings, how it…
This Won’t Help – Trump – But It May End His Presidency
This won’t help Donald Trump’s sagging poll numbers. The PervertGate scandal that broke out yesterday contains unsubstantiated allegations of Trump being financially groomed by the Kremlin for years. The dossier…
The Honeymoon’s Over
Not every shotgun wedding leads to a honeymoon. Even before the PervertGate dossier became public yesterday, Americans were fast losing faith in the Great Orange Bloat. The Washington Post reports…
The View from Germany
The opening line in Der Spiegel says it all: “Doubts are growing inside Angela Merkel’s Chancellery that the incoming American president will mature and become a statesman. The chancellor is…
The Gift That Just Keeps On Giving
Not all greenhouse gases last for hundreds of years. Some compounds such as chlorofluorocarbons and methane can linger for much shorter durations, a year to a couple of decades. Yet,…
Really, Roger Ailes Goddaughter? Shame, Shame on You, Bill.
The New York Times is reporting that, shortly after the ouster of FOX News chairman, Roger Ailes, the network negotiated a sexual harassment claim settlement with Juliet Huddy. Ms. Huddy…
You May Never Think of Donald Trump Quite the Same Way Again – Enjoy
Too bad no one realized back then that he was polishing up his presidential shtick.
When Is an Emergency Not an Emergency?
When I think of the word “emergency” I associate it with some situation out of the ordinary of unusual urgency. That was before Afghanistan. An article published by the UN…
Who Knew? Oh Yeah, Just About Everyone.
When it comes to the Western world, the United States of America scores dead last for electoral integrity and free and fair elections and that’s not even counting the 2016…
Last Seat on Conservative Clown Car – Going, Going, Gone?
CBC News reports that Kevin O’Leary is telling his rich Tory pals in Florida that he’s in. He will run for the Conservative leadership. Apparently O’Leary, probably bronzed and waxed,…
Climate Change for Bloated Orange Dummies, by Barack Obama
Barack Obama has penned a parting missive for his successor, Donny Trump. It comes in the form of a paper now published in the journal Science entitled, “The irreversible momentum…
Trudeau’s Pipeline May Get to Tidewater. His Legitimacy Won’t.
Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump have some things in common. They both garnered a lot of votes on the strength of outright lies. For Trudeau, nowhere is that more apparent…
Turning the White House Into a Family Business
Perhaps the Great Orange Bloat was pissed off at the warning fired his way by Barack Obama but Donald Trump has decided to appoint his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as senior…
The Great Void
Think of it as the span between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the purported election of Donald Trump to the American presidency. Andrew Bacevich writes it was an…