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A few days ago it was Lady Roseanne of Ambien Blather and today it is Samantha Bee. You have probably heard what she called Ivanka Trump.   You can find it on the internet or buried in the following   less than subtle dialogue from Hamlet: HAMLET My lady, should I lie in your lap? OPHELIA No, my lord. HAMLET I mean, my head upon your lap? OPHELIA Ay, my lord. HAMLET Do you think I meant country matters? And….obSCENE. Basically, add “freckles” and you get the whole gynecological picture. But here is the thing.   Since we have an administration lead by a two-year-old name calling thug. who has called women whores and mocked a physically challenged man, who is to blame here?   Exactly whose rules are we following here? Trump has spent the last two years plus publicly humiliating people, saying and doing whatever he wants but the reality is when the invectives is slung at him, he turns into s whin...

Those of us of a certain age of Aquarius remember that tune. For those of you whose taste runs along the lines of K-Pop, it was a big hit released by The Bee Gees in 1968. “It’s only words and words are all I have, to take your heart away.” According to Robin Gibb, “Words reflects a mood.   It was written after an argument.   Barry had been arguing with someone.   Robin had been arguing with someone and happened to be in the same mood.   The arguments were about absolutely nothing. They were just words.   That is what the song is about: words can make you happy or words can make you sad.” 1968 was a hell of a time in America.     The year began with the Tet Offensive in the midst of the Vietnam War, Martin and Bobby were assassinated, cops and protestors clashed in Chicago and even though the Civil Rights Act was passed in April, a particularly strong showing   by segregationist George Wallace   highlighted the strong e...

Trump is as American as you can possibly get.   In fact, he is the pure definition of what our country has always been about. Since the days of the Pilgrims who came here armed with cannon, and gunpowder it’s all been about taking what you want in the name of your own personal God.   From the Colonial period (1540) to the end of the War of 1812, European governments and colonists and later the U. S. Government and American settlers killed more than 30,000 Native Americans.   Conflicts were resolved by treaty often through sale or exchange of territory between the federal government and specific tribes.   The Indian Removal Act of 1830, authorized by the slave-owning (and whip punishing) Andrew Jackson, forced the relocation of the Native Americans east of the Mississippi River to the other side of the sparsely populated American frontier. The policy of removal was eventually refined to forcing the Indian tribes to live on specifically designat...

The fact that Donald Trump surrogate, for now, Harvey Weinstein is considering the Mad Men era casting couch defense reveals to me as much about him as it does our current commander and cheat. It will be Harvey’s contention that the way that Hollywood works is not unlike the way Nobel Peace Prize contender/art of the deal expert Donald Trump negotiates with Kim Jung Un.   You fuck me. I fuck you.   We both get what we want. In so many ways the entire Trump Presidency has been firmly rooted in the 1950s where it was a woman’s dream to marry a rich man in exchange for the perfect life.   Sex was something that was done to you and your job was to lie down and be a cooperative, mute, breeding machine. The man was the king of the castle who went out into his man’s world, paid his man bills, watched his man sports, drove his man car, smoke his man cigars and deal with zero man emotions until his heart finally exploded not with a bang but a whimper. Just like...

Truth announced today that it is going to sue Trump for harassment, seeking unspecified damages and has attained the services of attorney Gloria Allred to represent it. In a prepared statement which was read from the steps of the New York County Supreme Court, Ms. Allred said, “The  Washington Post's Fact-Checker blog  has been keeping a strict count of President Donald Trump's many misstatements, untruths, and outright lies. Over the weekend at a rally in Michigan, Trump hit a milestone: He topped 3,000 untrue or misleading statements in 466 days in office.” Truth, who appeared haggard also made a brief statement.   “On average Trump has abused me on average   6.5 times a day. Every. Single. Day. In fact, he’s been picking up the pace and has said nine untruths or misleading statements a day over the past two months.   This has to stop.   This is not what America is all about.   So I am going to begin the #metruth movement and once ...

Here's an interesting list of non-white, non-Americans for you. Juan Manuel Santos.   Liu Xiabo.   Kailash Satyarthi.   Mala Yousafzai.   Barack Obama.   (Surely many still believe that Mr. Obama is a foreign-born Muslim) What do these folks have in common besides being potentially unwelcome here? They all won the Nobel Peace prize.     This group of not-like-us people was awarded the prize for things like a resolute effort to bring a country’s more than 50-year-long civil to an end, the struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for for the right of all children to education and, in Mr. Obama’s case, for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.   He won it during his first term. Just a week or so ago Trump said that “everyone thinks” that he should get the prize for the big time art of the deal that he was about to make with North Korea. (...

It was announced late this week that President and Mrs. Obama will be producing original programs for Netflix.    They said that the shows will be inspirational and not political in nature. Here is a list of the some of the shows that he has planned. ROYAL PAIN:   An inspirational show about Bishop Michael Curry trying to teach members of the Royal family and friends how to react to “Stand By Me” without looking horrified. EIGHT YEARS A SLAVE:   An inspirational story about how Congress dealt with the two terms of the Obama administration. Originally titled Boy Meets World. THE EXPENDABLES:   An inspirational show starring Oliver Stone and Wayne LaPierre of the NRA as they follow a blood trail, laughing all the way to the bank during the latest mass school shooting. THE AMERICANS:   The Trumps star as a Russian family who pretend to be Americans.   Next season: Dancing with the Czars! FAULTY TOWER:   Meetings with R...