As the debt ceiling crisis evolved into a debt ceiling deal, I’ve been busy as a one-armed wallpaper hanger. Prior to the deal, my office was packed with clients representing special interests from all over the economic and political spectrums, each wanting advice for strategies on how to gore somebody else’s ox. And, of course,… Continue reading Early Republican Primals Begin
Tag: media
TikTok’s Time of Tribulation
In the nineteen fifties, disaffected, sociopathic, hormonally precocious teenagers in the United States often expressed their rebellion against the adult world by engaging in games involving various kinds of reckless driving. One such practice, favored by particularly suicidal types of what were called, at the time, “juvenile delinquents,” was known as “Chicken,” so named because… Continue reading TikTok’s Time of Tribulation
Breaking News: Carlson Gets Tucked
As Beltane arrives here in the Washington suburbs, the honeysuckle and feral azaleas bloom and the deer in my back yard retreat into the protective, enveloping Virginia woods to drop their fawns, forsaking the sugar beets and carrots I have the lawn service put out for them to nibble. Meanwhile, everyone in America wonders if… Continue reading Breaking News: Carlson Gets Tucked
Hashtag #Batty Billionaire’s New Toy
My home landline telephone number is not widely known. Generally, it gets passed around very judiciously among certain members of Washington’s insider elites, accompanied by advice that calling my office is considered decidedly more preferable. Members of my immediate family have it too, however, and very occasionally, I receive a call from somebody they know.… Continue reading Hashtag #Batty Billionaire’s New Toy
Mass Arrests as Criminal in Chief Disavows His Deluded Minions
Last Saturday, as I inevitably predicted in my previous post, forty-three Republican senators voted to acquit former president Donald John Trump of inciting the January 6 insurrection against the United States of America. Their motivations ranged from a jurisdictional argument, espoused after the trial by Senate Minority Leader and Obama-hating Kentucky redneck Mitch McConnell, which… Continue reading Mass Arrests as Criminal in Chief Disavows His Deluded Minions