Species disgust

 Of all the post-election post-mortems I have read, this in the December 19 New York Review of Books is the one that resonates with me:

"I feel we've been circling the drain for months and now are being rinsed down the plughole.  Hello, darkness, my old friend.  I'm nauseous and have difficulty breathing...I'm sorry for the rest of the world for having something as rancid and pampered and apparently resistless as America in it.  Who ever thought male suffrage was a good idea?  Come on in, the water's boiling in this reddened and ever redder and reddening state...If only it were some small and out of the way place.  Make Armorica great again...But no, this is that shining city and that last best hope.  Gone, all gone.  Stick a fork in it.  There is only money, barefaced lies, and evil intentions...No overstatement is possible.  I feel species disgust..."

If you want to get to the heart of the matter, forget the pundits and ask a poet, in this case Michael Hofmann.  Read it all.

As others submit their bribes to the "Inaugural Committee," ABC has jumped the line by donating $15 million to the Trump Library (above) to settle the Leader's lawsuit over George Stephanopoulos's correct characterization of his rape of E. Jean Carroll.  The rapist, who pronounced himself defamed by the word, has of course defamed Carroll over and over, and she has never seen a cent of the millions the court awarded her.  ABC should cut an equal-size check to her.

Siri, show me iron lungs.  Aaron Siri, crackpot attorney of Luddite outfit Informed Consent Action Network, filed suit in 2022 against the FDA demanding that it withdraw approval of the Salk polio vaccine which it licensed in 1955.  Only two years later Mitch McConnell has noticed, probably because Roadkill Bob wants to give Siri the top legal job at HHS.  McConnell, who survived polio as a child, says, "Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed -- they're dangerous."  Now he's interested.  Where was he when the bleach-and-horse paste mob was challenging covid mandates that could have saved lives?  

Astonishing news -- Mel Gibson is still alive.  Not just alive but delivering a policy speech at Motel a Lago.  Apparently the fires around his house in Malibu were not caused by climate change but Marxists (probably employing Rothschild space lasers).  Since radical leftists like Barbra Streisand also live in Malibu, it seems like an ill-considered policy.  

Never forget that our species has done wonderful things, too.  In honor of his 254th birthday I present Beethoven's greatest symphony.  The conductor is Andres Orozco-Estrada.