Mean-Spirited, Low-Lived Fellows Are Nothing New in American Politics
. . By Thomas L. Knapp Does Donald Trump have small hands? Is Ted Cruz a wimp (this is a family-oriented column, so I’m using that term instead of the word Trump used)? Are progressives who don’t support Hillary Clinton misogynists if they’re men and traitors to their sex if they’re women? The 2016 presidential […]
The Ziegfeld’s Last Picture Show
By Joel Schlosberg The Ziegfeld, New York City’s most elaborate movie theater, shut its doors after final screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens on January 28. Its sumptuous decor in the tradition of early-1900s movie palaces made it the go-to place for premieres. A throwback even when it opened in 1969, let […]
Cartoonist Chip Bok: Two Corinthians
The Donald is reaching out to Christians with Bible quotes. In a speech at Liberty University he quoted St. Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians. He called it “Two Corinthians”. The Pharisees of the press were quick to jump on this proclaiming the proper usage is “Second Corinthians”. Editor’s note: Chip is a […]
Cartoonist Chip Bok: We’re All Getting Schlonged
By Chip Bok Bokbluster.com Last week Hillary accused The Donald of inspiring recruiting videos for terrorists. Strange she would go the video sponsored terrorism route again. Anyway, no such evidence was produced. Schlonged Later in the week Trump said Hillary was schlonged by Obama in the 2008 election. Hillary was outraged. Trump insisted schlonged is not […]
Cartoonist Chip Bok: Trump Triad
By Chip Bok Bokbluster.com The Donald may not know much about the nuclear triad but he’s created his own Trump triad for dealing with ISIS. He wants to ban immigration for Muslims, close the internet for ISIS, and take out terrorist families. Trump Triad For his part, fellow Republican front runner Ted Cruz channeled his inner Curtis LeMay […]
Cartoonist Chip Bok: Turkey Pardon
By Chip Bok Bokbluster.com Intelligence bosses haven’t been talking turkey when it comes to ISIS. The Pentagon Inspector General has been investigating Central Command on the suspicion it doctored intelligence to tell the president what he wanted to hear about ISIS. Now The Daily Beast says CENTCOM officials are interfering with the investigation by hiding information. Those […]
Paris: No Grave Too Warm for the Political Class to Dance On
By Thomas L. Knapp For a columnist or pundit, there’s no greater temptation than to get something written — Quick! Now! — about the latest, greatest, deadliest catastrophe. After all, if it bleeds it leads. I felt that urge the night of the Paris terror attacks. For once, I resisted. I wanted more […]
Anger’s Outfall
. By Phil Erwin I was engaging in a bit of “finger-debate” (via e-mail) with a couple of politically-savvy folk who were – Pardon! – letting their anger-slip show. The topic was nominally the state of the Republican Primary field, and of those in it; but the real undercurrent of the discussion, I realized, […]
