Tag Archives: Donald Trump

Let’s update the Declaration (if there’s still time)


I was telling Swamp Rabbit that I like to focus on the humor in news stories whenever possible, and this is why I haven’t posted lately. The news these days is about deportation of American citizens, more tax cuts for … Continue reading

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Snarky Bill Maher can’t take a joke


Bill Maher can dish it out, but he can’t take it. The aging king of snark is still whining about “My Dinner with Adolph,” a satiric op-ed by Larry David that indirectly mocked Maher for dining with Donald Trump and … Continue reading

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What’s that distant crashing sound?


From Washington Post: Inquiring minds wanted to know: Is Trump up to the challenge of wrecking the economy during the first hundred days of his second term as president? Of course he is. The stable genius who went bankrupt six … Continue reading

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No method, just madness


From Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now: Colonel Kurtz: “Are my methods unsound?” Captain Willard: I don’t see any method at all, sir.” I was listing for my neighbor Swamp Rabbit some of the steps Donald Trump took to undermine the law … Continue reading

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Yo Birds — don’t help normalize the nut job


From a recent story in Philadelphia Inquirer: The Eagles will visit the White House on April 28 to celebrate their Super Bowl victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed to reporters Tuesday. I filled in the … Continue reading

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‘Ukraine’ rhymes with ‘Czechoslovakia’


Here’s U.S. Vice President JD Vance in Munich, scolding German leaders who say they won’t work with Alternative for Germany (AfD), a neo-Nazi party that has gained a lot of followers because of immigration and a downturn in the German … Continue reading

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We want you, Big Brother!


I opened my laptop and alerted my neighbor Swamp Rabbit to a recent news story: The Department of Justice scrubbed all information about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot from its website over the weekend, online archives show, continuing the Trump … Continue reading

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The Bizarro World presidency


I was telling my neighbor Swamp Rabbit that Bizarro World is defined in Wikipedia as “a fictional planet appearing in American comic books where “everything is ‘reversed’ in some way, with heroes being villains and vice versa, and beauty being … Continue reading

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She would not ‘obey in advance’


“What’s with the art?” my neighbor Swamp Rabbit asked. I told him it was a draft of a cartoon by Ann Telnaes, who resigned from the Washington Post last week after her editor refused to publish the cartoon, which depicts … Continue reading

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12 songs for the new year


Swamp Rabbit was nonplussed. “What’s with the playlist, Odd Man? New Year’s was six days ago. And most of these songs ain’t even about New Year’s.” I told him that 2025 was still new, and that it took me a … Continue reading

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