Trevor Noah of The Daily Show points out how, because he is the leading candidate of one of the two major political parties, Donald Trump has given permission for people to say things that they may have formerly felt obliged to either suppress or only share with those they were sure shared their views. Now, pretty much anything goes.
He returns to plug one of the issues that he is passionate about and that is to obtain appropriate health care for those 9/11 emergency first responders who got sick breathing in all the dust from the collapsed building as they went about trying to rescue people. He is trying to shame senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and other legislators into doing the right thing.
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There has been so much absurd over-reaction to the San Bernadino shooting that it is hard to know where to begin cataloguing the follies. On his show Late Night with Seth Myers, Myers had an excellent commentary on the ridiculous way the story was covered, the absurdity reaching its peak when the media got access to the shooters’ home.
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Jessica Williams shares my mystification that people are swooning over a board that does not hover in the least and pretending that it does.
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Remember how in October, the state of Oklahoma was forced by the courts to remove its Ten Commandments monument from the state capital grounds? Before it did so, Satanists had threatened to place a statue of Baphomet and a Hindu group had also proposed plans to place a statue of their god Hanuman.
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The more we learn about Robert Louis Dear, the man who opened fire on a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado, the more it is becoming clear that he was someone who believed that he was saved by Jesus and thus could do what he liked. And what he liked was ugly.
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Stephen Colbert had a lot of fun a week or so ago with the rules that broadcast television networks use when it comes to nudity, and the problems they encounter when they have to report news involving classical paintings, such as the auction of Modigliani’s Reclining Nude.
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I think we have to be resigned to two things: (1) Donald Trump will keep raising the stakes on saying crazy things and that many of the other Republican candidates will follow him and even try to outdo him; and (2) his popularity among Republican voters will keep increasing even as the rest of us look on in horror.
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Jeb! Bush’s plan to prevent terrorists sneaking into the US by hiding among the refugees fleeing from the chaos in that region is to allow only Christian refugees. When asked how he could distinguish who was a Christian he replied vaguely that it should be easy for them to prove it. And he is right, as this cartoon shows.
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We are now well into full-blown anti-Muslim hysteria with every right-wing politician trying to outdo each other as to who can come up with the most outrageous suggestion. No suggestion is too bonkers if it has as its basis the idea that all Muslims and immigrants of color, however benign they may seem on the surface, are people who might well have a desire to slit your throat in the night.
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