I despise this man wholeheartedly anyway, but I surely think he deserved what he got when he refused to endorse Trump at the Party’s Convention. Representative Peter King’s response was probably typical: “He’s a fraud, he’s a liar, he’s self-centered and disqualified himself from ever being considered for president of the United States,” King said. …
Tuesday was “Make America Work Again” day at the Republican National Convention, which also happened to coincide with the party formally nominating Donald Trump as its nominee. But neither jobs nor Trump got much attention as a grab bag of Republican headliners Tuesday spent most of their time demonizing Hillary Clinton and talking about themselves …
Name your poison. Here are tonight’s speakers. Now, which of the following SUVs corresponds to Rudy Giuliani, Joni Ernst, Scott Baio, and Melania Trump? Even for Republicans, giving opportunities to speak to their convention to people who lost family members in car accidents which happened to involve undocumented immigrants is in pretty poor taste, as …
That was painful to watch and listen to. Trump’s ego was on full display (quelle surprise!), and he interrupted and rolled over both his VP candidate and his interviewer constantly. There were half-a-dozen really uncomfortable moments in there, or they’d be uncomfortable if the candidate were a normal sensitive human being. Remember how he’s lambasted …
We saw Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey all but polishing Trump’s shoes in his attempt to be named the VP on the Republican ticket. We saw Newt Gingrich demonstrating his attack dog skills (loyalty oaths for Muslims, forsooth!) in hopes he’d get the VP nod. Frankly, neither of those things surprised me, considering the …
Man, even the very conservative magazine The Federalist, or at least its managing editor, doesn’t like Mike Pence. Not for the reasons most decent people do, though. Nope, because he expanded Medicaid as part of complying with Obamacare and he did it the wrong way. Here’s how the people who write that magazine think: …suffice …
The identity of the man is not yet known, but AFP news agency reported the identity papers of a 31-year-old French-Tunisian were found in the truck, citing an unnamed police source. That’s from the BBC story about the tractor-trailer attack which left dozens dead and many more injured in the seaside city of Nice in …
Maybe the Notorious RBG did speak out of turn when she expressed her opinion of Donald Trump, but it seems to me Justices get to have opinions just like the rest of us. I used to agree with Glenn Greenwald a lot more than I have in the last few years, but when he says …
From the 1946 movie of the same name, here’s Bing Crosby singing “Blue Skies.” 26 years later, here are The Allman Brothers performing “Blue Sky.” Five years after that, Linda Ronstadt sang “Blue Bayou.” Ten years earlier, Paul Mauriat recorded an orchestral version of a Eurovision 4th-place finisher called “Love is Blue.” It hit the …
Here’s a song from the 1970s. Firefall was formed out of the ashes of Gram Parsons’ Fallen Angels backing band and The Flying Burrito Brothers. They were yet another group with tight harmonies and good guitarists. They couldn’t get along with each other for very long, mostly due to booze and drugs. The surprising thing …