That Area Between Black and White
We’re glad to have you back for the second episode of our celebration of willful ignorance and misplaced pride. The continuing, real-life adventures of Trumpette on The Trumpette Show. . . (static) “NumptyVision interrupts our regularly-scheduled programming to give you this update from the co-host of Hate Speech. Oh. wait. That co-host is gone now, too? …
The race is over. We didn’t lose, America. First, a collective sigh of relief. This wasn’t easy. Let’s all take a moment to remember that we are part of this victory, to feel the relief and the joy wash over us. For those of us who get to keep our health insurance and for those …
The race to the bottom continues. If you’d told me when I was a child that one day my heroes would be congress people (well, and Wonder Woman because both the adult and the child me can see Gal Gadot is fucking awesome as WW), I’d have laughed at you. As a female, I didn’t …
Trumpcare. The bill that wouldn’t die. Kill or be killed. The bill or the People? It’s a race for our lives. While we brush up on rules of impeachment and how pardons work and which rat is jumping ship today, the Senate is busy trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Again. There is a …
Cold open: A little kid named Trumpette asks Mom for a cookie. Mom says “no.” Trumpette doesn’t like the answer. He doesn’t accept it. He sticks out his bottom lip and starts looking around for Dad. Pouty Trumpette asks Dad for a cookie. Dad says, “What did your mom say?” Trumpette stares down at his …
There is a competition we are in that most of us didn’t sign up for. I know, I know, “no votes” makes no sense stuck on the end like that. I have no idea what Manchild meant there. And can we also ignore the ridiculous irony of 45, a Republican, whining about obstruction again? The …
Beware: Ignorance Protects itself Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows. (Above from Chapter 12 of “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia E. Butler) This passage comes to mind as I see serious people asking …
America is not “great.” It’s never been great. This whole America thing seems like a journey, mostly forward but with occasional steps backward. As a group, we’re headed toward a goal of being “great.” We don’t all agree on what “great” is, and we’ve never achieved it – we’re far from it – but we …
Our latest episode of Witch Hunt begins with an email received by special guest star Donald J. Trump Jr. to arrange a meeting with a Russian lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya. Having been promised damaging information on Hillary Rodham Clinton, Donnie Jr. agreed to the meeting. The president’s then campaign chairman, Paul J. Manafort, attended as well as …