I have questions

 Is anyone familiar with the naturalization process in Russia?  I see that Tara Reade, a former staffer of Senator Joe Biden (not to be confused with Tara Reid, the star of Sharknado) has been granted Russian citizenship in a decree signed by Vladimir Putin.  During the 2020 election Reade claimed to have been sexually assaulted by Biden in 1993, but there is no record of the complaint she said she filed.  In 2023 she claimed political asylum in Russia because she feared for her safety everywhere else in the world.  She now works openly for the Kremlin and has shared her story with a sympathetic Tucker Carlson.  Her story failed to prevent Biden's election but I'm sure she did her best.  Question:  Does the president-for-life sign all naturalization decrees or only those of people who have done the state special service?


There's an outfit called Americans for Museums which seeks to galvanize Americans against museums.  They have a snitch line you can call if you encountered a museum that failed to provide "integrity, accuracy and respect," by which they mean "facts that religious primitives do not accept."  So far, so MAGA.  But don't all museums have a point of view, even if only "these paintings are beautiful" or "all these artifacts tell a story that is as factually true as we can determine"?  The creationist museum in Kentucky would have visitors believe that people rode on the backs of dinosaurs.  The Holocaust Memorial Museum is under no obligation to achieve "balance" by presenting Nazi racial theory.  The Museum of African American History and Culture has never showcased the lighter side of slavery.  Why do these "Americans" find it necessary to reshape all museums to reflect their beliefs?  Just take the kids someplace else.  I think they can be sure the Museum of the Bible, for example, will not attempt to force the Koran or the writings of Bertrand Russell "down our throats," to employ one of their favorite images.  This country has thousands of museums.  If you hate football, avoid Canton, Ohio.  In return, paleontologists will not laugh and point at your saddle-broken T-rex.

In a possibly related story, why would a presidential library need a hotel?  Especially one in downtown Miami, which is well provided with them.  Apparently that was the deal when Eric Trump picked the spot which will one day preserve Daddy's semiliterate hate rants and Sharpie-defaced weather maps.  Surely a conference center for discussions of treason and dementia would be more useful.

If a comedian tells a joke and no one is allowed to hear it, is Disney off the hook?  Nexstar says its ABC channels won't carry the Jimmy Kimmel show tonight and Sinclair says yup, us too, please don't be mad at us, MAGA!  The courage -- you can smell it.



 



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