Days like today make me weary. I don’t like reading about how we’re going to try to destroy the International Criminal Court, close the PLO mission in Washington DC, or have a second stupid summit with Kim Jong Un. It hurts my sense of national pride.
And it just hurts my cerebrum to read about how Cynthia Nixon was so concerned about a Andrew Cuomo smear campaign accusing her of anti-Semitism that she went to Zabar’s and ordered a cinnamon raisin bagel with lox, red onions, capers, tomato, and plain cream cheese.
It doesn’t make me feel much better to feel like Martina Navratilova can say what I want to say about Serena Williams without being cast aside as a clueless part of the problem. Some things I guess I am not supposed to talk about.
I’m glad to see that at least some polls are showing a deterioration in Trump’s approval numbers but every time I see a poll showing any support for him at all, I feel like using a staple gun on my eye sockets. I know I would feel that same way even if he had three percent approval. There are some things that no human should support, and yet some of us always do.
For example, some people support Omarosa now because she’s making trouble for the president. People shouldn’t do that. It makes me want to use my desk to give myself a concussion.
I don’t know how many people want to make it easier to release methane into the air, but I imagine they can be counted with my fingers and toes. Naturally, that means the Trump administration is going to do just that because that’s the kind of populists they are. They’re gutting environmental protection because a few amoral business executives control everything they do. Apparently, making America great again entails more than moving our racial mores back to the 1950’s era.
Tomorrow, I’ll read my blogs and newspapers again looking for ways to add something insightful and of value to the national conversation. Today was a failure. I feel lucky to have survived it.
9-for9 total agreement, if I counted right. Are you sure you’re not me?
Days like today make me weary. I don’t like reading about how we’re going to try to destroy the International Criminal Court, close the PLO mission in Washington DC, …
Does anyone not remember The Hague Invasion Act, which was signed into law by C- Augustus? See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act
We’ve hated the ICC forever. So Cheeto is only continuing what C- Augusuts and Jesse Helms started. Is anyone shocked by the action against the PLO mission? Not me!! Cruz or Rubio would have done it too. And no elected Democrat in DC cares about it.
What you mean, “We?” TPB have. Any person with any experience in the world and a little foresight was in favor of joining it. The opponents are the people who think Obama could somehow have kept troops in Iraq, because of course the Iraqis had no way to kill American troops, experience showed that, right? And besides, the loved us, greeted us with flowers and candy, right?
. . . (Or is that how you knew?)
(I like the Blues Brothers vibe . . . or did Jake and Elwood steal it from Van?)
Sometimes all you can do is count your blessings.
I live in NJ and thank the lord every day Chris fucking Christie and his evil, petty, vindictive little minions are out of power. Bridgegate turned into just another Fitzmas, but at least they’re gone for now.
A cinnamon raisin bagel with lox and other goodies? OMFG.
In my youth, my family would make monthly excursion to west LA to see my grandparents, go to a Jewish deli, and load up on baked goods and smoked fish. Or else my grandparents would come to us bearing all those goodies. It was ethnic food that gentile neighbors were clueless about. It’s my version of soul food, and I assure you that no cinnamon raisin bagel has ever passed my lips. Acceptable toppings for a bagel include poppy seeds, sesame seeds, coarse salt, onion, and garlic.
. . . on a cinnamon raisin bagel?
A cinnamon raisin bagel with some cream cheese, while I’m sure inauthentic, can be pretty tasty. But topped with lox, onion, capers?
French Vanilla ice cream with anchovy topping, anyone?
I had a cinnamon raisin once. Toasted, with butter. It wasn’t bad at all. Just kind of unnecessary.
It’s like cinnamon raisin bread — toast it, butter it, eat it; don’t ever try to put anything else on it.
Yes that particular combo does sound vile, revolting and disgusting. I’m surprised that someone who lives in NYC wouldn’t know that???? I’m out in the hinterlands and would never choose that combo.
Barf.
#Plaidshirtguy is my therapeutic go-to these days. Great kid.
heh… yes, he was refreshing and amusing.
Any sentient being would be infuriated by the calculated evil and greed afoot today.
There are days I want to yell at the Trump apologists that I know “What the hell is the matter with you?*!#!?? Can’t you even tell that Trump is a pig-ignorant degenerate buffoon???”
I’m surprised that they haven’t traded their houses for some magic beans.
Frankly, I’m at a point where I mostly don’t give a crap about racist Trump and his bizarre antics.
It’s what the GOP is doing, often behind the scenes, that really infuriates and appalls me.
I’d prefer it if much less attention was paid to that Clownstick and more of our energies focused on what the GOP is doing to our country.
I DO know that a LOT of attention is paid to that here, so please don’t misunderstand me. Not being critical of this blog and comments.
Unfortunately, though, far far far too much of the US media is focused on buffoonery at the expense of mostly ignoring the really bad stuff happening, particularly to our environment.
In really discussing politics with people around me lately, it’s been brought home to me once again just how clueless most Americans are. Not a slur. Everyone’s busy, but to stay focused takes time and energy that most people just don’t have.
Sigh.
I’m sure you already know this but methane is 30 times more heat trapping than CO2. The fact that it doesn’t last hundreds of years, like CO2 is pretty much irrelevant for the future of the human race. Trump and the GOP remain a clear and present danger to this country.
And these are also the days where you bring a level sanity and clarity to our worlds that is sorely needed in these trying times.
I hope you know how appreciated you are, especially here.
Just thought I’d point that out before you grabbed a staple gun or you found a concussion delivery device…
Booman:
I assume you know…or at least you should know if you grew up anywhere near real bagel makers and eaters…that the “plain cream cheese” part of her order can also be ordered as a “schmear“. This essentially means “Not too much with the cream cheese!!! Juuuust enough.”
So…is she commenting on Cuomo’s “smear” technique?”
Like…”Enough already!!!”
Overordering a patently goyishe bagel combo at at Zabar’s, from people who know better but have to cater to all of the know-nothing whatevers who come to the store because…well, because they’re not really in the know?
I know…taking this a little too far.
But…she knows the difference.
Bet on it.
What?
You think she doesn’t know her bagels?
Hell…I ate breakfast at the famed B&H Dairy restaurant on 2nd Ave. in the East Village literally hundreds of times From the mid-’60s on through the ’70s. They taught this Irishman about bagels and bialys, about old-line NYC Jewish street culture, about not getting too damned fancy, and about running a restaurant so thoroughly based on honesty that they never gave anyone a bill. You just walked to the cash register and told whoever was there what you had eaten.
Is Cynthia Nixon sending a message?
I hope so.
AG
P.S. Snark?
Not snark?
Even I’m not sure.
Post-fiction.
A product of Post-Truth?
Post-Snark?
Whatever.
Read it and…laugh.
If you can still do so.
Post-Humor.
Discrepancy Arthur … a ‘4’ by BooMan and of course a ‘1’ from a quart nemesis.
That bagel combo sounds great to me; I’ll try it the next chance I get. The sanctimonious pearl-clutchers will have to get over their vapors attack on their own.
Martina Navratilova appears to be the only person associated with tennis who has any common sense. Maybe she should run for office.
“For example, some people support Omarosa….”
Not to mention converting someone who had sex with Trump, who then tries to monetize the event, into some kind of feminist hero. WTF?