Bad comedy - sometimes - must be watched. trump’s speech at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner on 7/24 exemplifies “must be watched.” [FN1] Standup can be scary, w/possible PTSD on top of shelling out bucks for a cover charge. I meant members of the audience ... 1/9

can feel violated, esp if there’s a cover charge. [FN2] The material was pure torture for the audience. And at one hour + the speech was too long. And yet an alternative lay close at hand. This week, the State…

Attacks on Iran, w/o warnings - to U.S. allies or the American people - began 2/28. POTUS is “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States,” [FN1] 1/13

an authority Hamilton said is “nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces” and notes that “the declaring of war and [] raising of fleets and armies” under the Constitution…

Tonight, in trump’s address on prime time, one more item might be checked off the list of prerequisites for dictatorship. There is a fairly high probability that trump will declare “void” the elections that placed Senators Ossoff and Warnock in the U.S. Senate. [FN1] 1/15

A White House spokesperson said trump “would not focus on Georgia’s 2020 elections.” [FN2] Warnock and Ossoff were elected 1/5/1, runoffs. [FN3] In Georgia, trump, in a post-election call to the Secretary of State,…

IN’s Lt Gov rarely shows cowardice of a type that might soon be on display. The man shames poultry with a nickname bestowed upon him: Le Merde de Poulet. To be accurate, it takes little courage to harass, late at night, women at food pantries. Or (say it ain’t so!)...1/6

getting jollies off deep fake videos of ... Well, it’s bad taste. The “tacky quotient” gets notched up a bit by clearing one’s office via ... well, one’s own (or should we say “onanistic”) investigation. Now it seems…