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What should Trump’s latest gross vanity project be called?
I laughed when I saw that ForwardBlue (obviously a Dem or progressive org) is calling it… Arc de Trump
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged ForwardBlue, Trump, Trump vanity project, Trump's arch
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Intimate dementia
Dementia. The word of the decade, maybe, but before it displayed itself as an awful management problem for the entire world, it was an intimate agony in private worlds. Some years ago I was sitting in a booth at my … Continue reading
How to do diplomacy in the face of war
Like you, I read about (or maybe just skim over) Trump’s egregiously wacky jabs at convincing everyone he knows what he’s doing. One of the many things he knows nothing about is diplomacy, which demands a grasp of reality he … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Culture, Government, Immigration, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, War
Tagged "Taking Manhattan", "The Island at the Center of the World", Hudson Bay, Iran war, Manhattan Island, New Amsterdam, New England, Peter Stuyvesant, Richard Nicolls, Russell Shorto, Trump
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