Buttermilk Sky

 I had an odd dream early this morning.  Putin had come to Washington for a first look at his new province and Trump took him to the top of the Washington Monument.  It was a beautiful spring day, the windows were open, and as they looked over the mall a man dressed as Galileo emerged from the shadows and shoved them both off the observation deck to test his theory that the tiny Russian and the hulking American would impact the ground at the same time.  I awoke to the sound of rejoicing. Imagine my surprise when I heard that the boss has indeed been invited to Washington.  An international pariah since 2022, the dictator will meet his creature to carve up  Ukraine  and no doubt receive approval for his next "special operation," whether in Moldova, Poland or the Baltic republics.  It's just COMMON SENSE.  And NATO is too expensive for the US to keep up. While he's here Vlad can get a sit-down with his "girlfriend"  Tulsi Gabbard,  co...

...is better than the one I come from, said Steely Dan in 1975.  Gerald Ford had proclaimed our long national nightmare over and was bumbling his way to losing the next year's election.  Everything seemed possible, and yet... He's back!  Darren Beattie  was fired from Trump I for attending a white nationalist conference, but in 2018 there was still a sporadic effort to present a civilized front.  As soon as he was confirmed Marco Rubio snapped Beattie up for the position of acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs.  A sampling of his diplomatic utterances: Is this a call for genocide or just involuntary sterilization?  You make the call. Fortunately we still have human rights warriors like Missouri attorney general  Andrew Bailey.   Noticing that the baristas who concoct his morning beverage are becoming "more female and less white," Bailey is suing Starbucks to end its "discriminatory patterns and practices."  The p...

  I started the day making a list of outrages and disasters, as one does sixteen days into this four-year sentence, but I stopped when I got to this article at the  Daily Beast.   Meet Hulk (the call sign he prefers), a sergeant in the Ukrainian army.  Hulk lost part of his right leg to a land mine and was back in the line a month and a half later, fitted with a prosthetic.  "We cannot imagine our children living under occupation," he told Anna Nemtsova.  "My motivation is to prevent that."  He is only one of several million people who suffer physical and psychological trauma but fight on.   By comparison, the crimes of Musk/Trump appear trivial.  There's a saying (it's probably Chinese, they all are) that if you hold a penny up to your eye you can blot out the sun.  You may want to try that today before the penny disappears.  During the first term -- isn't it interesting that both political careers and prison sentences employ ...

  At some point in the last three weeks the United States was reorganized along the lines of republics like Israel and Ireland, with a prime minister and a president.  The prime minister controls the central government, including finance, foreign policy and law enforcement, while the president carries out the ceremonial duties of receiving ambassadors, issuing proclamations and handing out awards.  Time magazine has decided it's not prudent to point this out in so many words, but its cover is very clear. Nothing in writing bears the signature of Elon [Whatever] Musk, but it's not difficult to see who is behind every order.  For example, the  executive order s on the "re-settling" of oppressed white South Africans while ending aid for the country supposedly oppressing them -- the president hates immigrants while the prime minister is a member of that very group.  He has already chain-migrated his mother, who misses sharing coffee and cake with her frien...

  We have lived in amity for two hundred years, sharing the longest unguarded border in the world, and this is what Canadians are wearing now.  The general sentiment Up There seems to be summed up by a retired teacher from  Halifax  who said, "I love America and Americans, but I don't want to be one."  I doubt if her feelings are shared by Greenlanders, Palestinians or residents of the Panama Canal Zone -- probably more anger than sorrow there.  Like the teacher, I don't want to be one either. I'm not alone:  Ireland's  Foreign Births Registry  allows descendants of Irish emigrants to claim Irish citizenship and the number of Americans doing so has increased steadily over the past two years, 7,726 in 2023 and 11,601 in 2024.  The last big jump was among Britons who wanted to continue enjoying membership in the European Union.  My great-grandfather arrived at Ellis Island in 1900 (I've seen the registration) but I don't have any way ...

 Admiral Linda Fagan was dismissed as commandant of the  Coast Guard  on Day Two because DEI is that much of a threat to the draft-dodging felon.  She was given sixty days to move out of her house at Joint Base Anacostia Bolling.  This was suddenly reduced to three hours, not even enough time to pack, because the gangster regime decided to make an example of her.  You might assume there was a new commandant eager to move in but no one has been chosen.  In other words, it was straight-up bullying and contempt for a lifetime of service. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief  (PEPFAR)  began under the not-notably-woke administration of George W. Bush in 2003 and has provided treatment to around 25 million people in 54 countries.  It is another casualty of the USAID demolition, so they're shit out of luck. Finally!  American women can compete in collegiate sports without unfair competition from "men," i.e., the handful of trans...

  Boot-egging has begun:  $100,000 worth of eggs were hijacked from Pete & Gerry's Organics in  Greencastle, Pennsylvania.   The FBI is on it, or would be if it weren't preoccupied with the impending  purge  of agents who investigated The Leader's crimes.   The  Central Intelligence Agency  is also firing its workforce on orders from The Leader, calling it "a holistic strategy to infuse the agency with renewed energy."  The English language is obviously its main target now that all other threats to national security have been vanquished by the force of The Leader's amazing personality.  In other news of the War on English, the  National Science Foundation  must memory-hole the words antiracist, advocacy, disability, diversity, biase s, women  and many others from its publications. The Leader has deigned to attend the Superbowl this Sunday in New Orleans with his court.  In return, the NFL is required to ...