Please, Mr. President


The stock market was doing really well yesterday, and then...Cadet Bone Spur has to speak and it dropped.
And again today it’s well up, so I have a saying for him to consider: don’t just do something, stand there.

State of their Union


Right after Donald Trump's State of the Union address, porn star Stormy Daniels Will appear on the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” show. I guess talk to talk about the state of their union.

Trump, dont use this phrase!


Given that everyone - especially Fox News - is asking what's the right thing for President Trump to say regarding the afflicted areas in Texas, I would say given his race relations and Republican predecessor, the one phrase he should NOT use is "heck of a job Whitey".

Where is the outrage?


To those who are in ambivalent, uninformed or uncertain as to their opposition to our president's "modest" condemnation of Nazis, Confederates and white nationalists let me remind them of the prescient quote by the legendary philosopher Edmund Burke. It reads "all that is necessary for evil to triumph of is for good men to do nothing."
The Jews under the third Reich experienced that very result, so where then is the universal outrage among ALL the Jews today, especially those who voted for Donald Trump?

Gonna get soaked


There's a certain type of land speculator who continues to buy Florida beachfront property and denies climate change. Forgive the expression, but I think down the road they're going to get soaked.

Stubborn or stupid?


For your approval on subjects widely divergent, consider the strange habits people get in to. Whether it's the questions they don't ask or foolish habits they acquire, as in sliding headfirst into bases. For example, the best player in baseball Mike Trout is out, and the best prospect and baseball Gleyber Torres is missing the rest of the season for the same foolish act. This begs the question, do you always have to be stupid if you're stubborn, or is it guaranteed you'll be stubborn if you're stupid?

The business of giving


When in the business of philanthropy in the matters of money and regarding the use of the threat, you need to know how to threaten, even more important when to threaten, and most important of all who to threaten

Burn baby burn

Sometime back Donald Trump suggested we make it illegal to burn the American flag. That would put us in the company of such luminaries is China and North Korea and others who have such rules against what they consider anti-nationalist conduct. Now we find that classified information was shown to the Russians (as in their ambassador) during a White House meeting, and this was right after firing of FBI director James Comey and Mr. Trump's citing that that "Russian business" had been going on too long.
 Want to make him really mad? Bring a Russian flag and burn it quickly before he makes it illegal.

Donald Trump's exceptions

Donald trumps lawyer says reviewing his last 10 years of IRS returns, (at least someone gets to see them) that he did no business with the Russian's except for "certain exceptions". Interesting exception, Willie Sutton the famed bank robber lived from 1901-1980, and in all those years (approximately 29,000 days) only robbed banks on 34 of them. Again, a few exceptions. 

Forgiveness...

We forgive someone to the degree that we love them, back them to the degree that we appreciate them, and listen to them to the that we respect ✊ them

Socialism or Capitalism?

Investment manager Barry Rithotz on the question whether the free market is really free says that the outcome of the financial crisis has been "socialism for the wealthy but capitalism for everybody else."

Life lessons


We forgive someone to the degree that we love them, back them to the degree that we appreciate them, and listen to them to the degree that we respect ✊ them

Seriously???


Unbelievably before he is even inaugurated, Donald Trump has challenged the integrity of a true American patriot CIA director John Brennan, by comparing his methods to "Nazi Germany", seriously.
Trump, in the tactics he uses, remind me very much of those old third Reich boys, and is kind of like a binge eater at McDonald's criticizing weight watchers.

Careful what you wish for


As it has become painfully obvious that it will be way easier to repeal the affordable care act then to replace it, Republicans are now facing one of the ultimate "be careful what you wish fors", they now have to keep realistically, the unrealistic promises they've made.

(((WE'RE NOT ALL THAT PREJUDICED)))

The alt-right while in their terms are just "not anti-Semitic", interestingly has a unique way of noting Jewish writers with whom they disagree with  the fascinating "triple parentheses”. This was well pointed out in the New York Times Sunday news of the week in review by an article on the alt-right by Christopher Caldwell when they use the following device regarding Jewish names just like (((this))). I get it ((((Mr. Trump)))).