This morning, I wrote to a lovely LJ friend about her UK interests. I wandered a bit, and lost myself in the weeds of international relations. Since my pitch to her got lengthy, I decided to move that part here ( Read more... )

A few of you wonderful readers may dimly recall that I've long been a fan of "Supergirl" -- which is NOT the piece of schlock superhero idiocy you expect to find in the Vast Wasteland (quoting a long-ago TV observer, Marshall McLuhan ( Read more... )

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Oh, geez! Today the Orange Asshole decided he could get Israel to "dress up" his ongoing feud with the "Squad" -- young freshly-elected minority Congresswomen, two of whom were set to visit Israel during the current Hill recess ( Read more... )

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Just as he's made the Fourth of July on the National Mall about himself, the Asshole-in-Chief tonight moved to make the 2020 U.S. Census about his, DJT's, ludicrous vision of a country ruled by his own ridiculous SELF ( Read more... )

So, yeah, I'm watching a little TV, here in central eastern FL -- and Rachel Maddow is on, saying that the main newspaper of Orlando (80 miles from here), the Sentinal, has gone on record NOT endorsing Donald J.Trumpsky in 2020 ( Read more... )

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Looking for news coverage of the Assange arrest in London, I hit MSNBC's live coverage of "The Donald's" press encounter with the President of South Korea. He was of course questioned about Assange's London arrest today, and had the unmitigated gall to say that the issue 'isn't my thing ( Read more... )