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Category Archives: The Very Stable Genius

Most of us won’t get fooled again

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Abraham Lincoln was mostly right when he remarked that you can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people, all of the time. In truth you can never fool all of the people even sometimes, but more importantly, […]

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C’mon Donald, You’re not supposed to say this out loud

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Gosh, the very stable genius just let a cat out of a bag, not that anyone hadn’t heard the cat mewling away in there. I mean, I thought Republicans were supposed to pretend that Fox is just another television network with a bunch of straight shooters, but here’s the genius tweeting us differently: Many will […]

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Crazy man on the loose and no one notices

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

This article about the press’s insistence on covering demonstrations by the right at which “more than a dozen” protestors show up, against a history of minimizing or ignoring anti-war demonstrations drawing 10s of thousands of people, got me thinking about another eternal media mystery. Why does the media insist on hardly noticing Trump’s ever increasing […]

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Time to shift the blame

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

We’ve all heard about the fact that the White House is sitting on numbers indicating that the pandemic will be getting worse over the next several weeks. Which would ordinarily make you wonder about this: The White House confirmed today that the Mike Pence-led coronavirus task force charged with leading this nation’s pandemic response will […]

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You can’t joke about the genius

Saturday, May 2, 2020

So this afternoon my wife saw on her twitter feed that Al Franken had said this: Another piece of advice from the President: Trump suggested today that Americans wash their hands with boiling water. When asked to comment, Dr. Birx said, “the President was just spitballing.” — Al Franken (@alfranken) May 1, 2020 It turns […]

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Nobody could have known

Friday, May 1, 2020

I just got a new Ipad, and found to my distress that the blog editor I’ve been using for years is “no longer in the App Store”, meaning that when I copied by backup to the new Ipad, that App was nothing but an icon. I am now back to WordPress, which I haven’t really […]

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Stockholm Syndrome

Friday, April 24, 2020

I am beginning to suspect that our national media suffers from a variant of Stockholm Syndrome. Not precisely the same, but somewhat. Perhaps we should call it What-If-Obama-Had-Said-Or-Done-This-Itis. The media has reacted to constant abuse from a certain stable genius by refusing to acknowledge the obvious, and pretending that his insanity is just Trump being […]

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One of life’s mysteries

Thursday, April 23, 2020

I know all these people must be smarter than me. For instance, I never could have masterminded the theft of an election like Brian Kemp did. But even I have noticed that more than one person who has loyally done as Trump asks has had reason to echo these lines from Paul Simon’s Paranoia Blues: I […]

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Hey Susan, what lesson did Donald learn?

Saturday, April 4, 2020

The crumbling of the Republic proceeds apace, as Trump, t aking advantage of a plague he is responsible for amplifying, takes steps that will be mostly ignored by a distracted populace and press: National Security Analyst Samantha Vinograd laid into Trump for firing Inspector General Michael Atkinson yesterday. IG Atkinson was doing his job, and […]

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Told like it is

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

My wife and I subscribe to the Boston Globe, though we are more than a stone’s throw from that fair city, for reasons that, if not already known to the reader, will become obvious in the course of this post. The Globe’s coverage of the genius has, compared, for example, to the New York Times, […]

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