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Oh, behave!

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  Trump is all (Diet) Coked up on the power granted him by the Supine Court to decide, on any given day, who is and is not a citizen.  Zapping the Creature with more electricity was not an option for Victor Frankenstein, but John Roberts thinks he knows better. Bibi Netanyahu was scheduled to appear in court today in his slow-moving bribery/fraud case, but his lawyers sought and received a  delay  after citing "classified diplomatic and security grounds."  He was indicted back in 2019 but he's just been so busy, and of course it's a "witch hunt."  The court's grant of another delay follows Trump's threat to withhold aid unless it is slowed again, but surely the Jerusalem District Court would not be influenced by any such attack on the nation's sovereignty.  Classified grounds are just...classified. Millions of people filled the streets for New York City's  Pride Parade,  still the nation's largest despite the cowardice of several traditio...
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Special weekend fun edition

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  This is the face that launched a thousand ships and one exclusion.  It comes from the set called  J.D. Vance Babyface Edits  and was found by CBP on the phone of a Norwegian named Mads Mikkelsen when he arrived at Newark Airport to visit friends.  Mr. Mikkelsen was forced to give a blood sample and fingerprints before being returned to Norway.  In  2018  and again in  2024  Trump complained that people from "nice" countries like Norway, Denmark and Switzerland were unwilling to leave their comfortable lives under socialism and immigrate to the United States.  According to Trump it's the "shithole countries" that send all their murderers and rapists here.  CBP claims that Mr. Mikkelsen was sent home for "drug use" because they also found a picture of him holding a pipe (no drugs or pipe, however).  You make the call. Even in Norway they don't get much whiter than  Marius Borg Hoiby,  the eldest son of Princess M...
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Mamdanimania!

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 Stop!  People, what's that sound?  Heads, exploding. In ordinary political terms, there's nothing surprising about Zohran Mamdani's victory in the Democratic primary Tuesday.  His main opponents were a disgraced former governor who had to quit in the face of multiple accusations of sexual misconduct and a disgraced mayor who should have quit after being indicted for corruption.  He's a fresh face in the style of AOC, Maxwell Frost and Jasmine Crockett, and he appealed even to people who struggled to pronounce his name.  New Yorkers have learned to look beyond "foreign soundin' names" because it's not Arkansas. As the news filters into The Heartland, the groundswell of panic and rage threatens to drown out the celebrations of "the greatest military operation of all time" or whatever the sycophants are required to call Trump's half-assed attack on Iran.  (Imagine D Day if FDR had gone on the radio and said, "Everyone should get out of...
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This week in theocracy

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  "Through those difficult years and up to this very moment only one thing has proven to us time and time again 'whoever comes to me I will never cast out.'  That one thing is Jesus Christ, God of the universe and lord of our lives." Those clumsy sentences are from a commencement address delivered not at a Bible college in Cousinwife, Missouri, but at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York.  And not by the chaplain but the Secretary of Transportation, no less, secure in the belief that only Christians make up the Class of 2025.   Sean Duffy  also promised to alleviate the Academy's structural problems including "no hot water for months...dorms with mold and a dilapidated, falling-apart library."  Most especially, he seemed to be worried by the mistreatment of "Christ on the Water," a painting depicting Jesus ministering to sailors lost at sea.  It has been consigned to a "flood-prone" basement following complaints f...
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Life with daddy

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  There's a stake in your fat black heart And the villagers never liked you. They are dancing and stamping on you. They always knew it was you. Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through. It was clear that Trump was in a fouler mood than usual when both Israel and Iran responded to his boasting with "What ceasefire?"  So when he got to The Hague and became  Mark Rutte's  problem, the NATO secretary general decided to try joshing -- "Daddy sometimes has to use strong language" -- lest the always mercurial, increasingly demented Leader blow up the whole alliance.  Asked if he was still committed to Article 5 (an attack on one is an attack on all), he maundered, "Depends on your definition.   There are numerous definitions of Article 5.  [There are not.]  You know that, right?  But I'm committed to being their friend...I'm going to give you an exact definition when I get there.  I just don't want to do it on the back of an airplane."  Tran...
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The people, yes?

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 "Don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters," wrote Bob Dylan cryptically.  It's starting to dawn on people that leaders are worse than useless and we need to bypass them in our numbers. In Mexico City more than five thousand people gathered in the Zocalo in the rain, using colorful umbrellas to form the world's largest human Pride flag.   Mayor Clara Brugada  joined them and proclaimed Mexico City "the capital of pride, diversity, peace and transformation."   Moving from pride to anger:  the people of Venice are tired of having their city clogged with enormous cruise ships which block the sun, but the Bezos-Sanchez nuptials pushed them over the limit.   Jeff Bezos  gave up his first marriage and billions of dollars in settlement to MacKenzie Scott to be with Lauren Sanchez, so he decided to give her the wedding of the century by inviting all his superrich superfriends and renting out the city.  Venetians are fighting back...
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At war and not at war

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The birthday parade was a big beautiful bust, but on Saturday Grandpa finally got his boner.  Apparently the details were withheld from him and from his chatty DefSec, in a half-hearted attempt to keep everyone with access to Truth Social from knowing, but when the B-2's headed for Guam it was clear they weren't assisting with Bibi's urban renewal project in Gaza.  They were helping out with his new war. J.D. Vance  clarified that "We are not at war with Iran.  We're at war with Iran's nuclear program," a distinction without a difference.  By then,  Tulsi Gabbard decided that she misspoke when she told the Senate Iran was "not building" nuclear weapons, blaming the "dishonest media" for reporting her words.  What she meant to say was "THEY'RE HOURS AWAY FROM NUKING PALM BEACH!"  She still has a job today.  Unfortunately, so has Trump.  According to the  Times,  the Pentagon was so afraid he'd spill (after telling the...
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