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White House Correspondents Dinner (Updated!)

You know, this is supposed to be funny, funny stuff. Why do I listen to it and hear a litany of failure? Michelle Wolf 2018 Hasan Minhaj 2017 Larry Wilmore 2016 Cecily Strong 2015 Joel McHale 2014 Conan O’Brien 2013 Jimmy Kimmel 2012 Seth Meyers 2011 Jay Leno 2010 Wanda Sykes 2009 Craig Ferguson 2008 …

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River City

Tom Brokaw’s letter– It is 4:00 am on the first day of my new life as an accused predator in the universe of American journalism. I was ambushed and then perp walked across the pages of The Washington Post and Variety as an avatar of male misogyny, taken to the guillotine and stripped of any …

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Maybe I’m Finally Purged

It’s a source of satisfaction to me that outside of dK (twice, under my own handle, not everyone can say that) and Open Left (not so open and not so left) I’ve never been booted from a web site (well, one other and it’s complicated and a story for another day) though there are plenty …

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Without Comment

Because, really, what can you say? Faux and Fiends Avenatti on MSNBC Trevor Stephen Seth Bonus Chris Hayes on Seth Oh, except this. Wow! Alright! Fantastic!

About 14 Hours

I haven’t forgotten you, any more than Larry Wilmore. Second Episode Yeah, you’re finished That’s Right Bill Cosby Found Guilty of Sexual Assault After Years of Accusations By GRAHAM BOWLEY and JON HURDLE, The New York Times APRIL 26, 2018 On the second day of its deliberations at the Montgomery County Courthouse in this town …

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Personal Space

I don’t always talk about my mental health issues (though they provide a constant context I feel it’s only fair you should be aware of), nor do I wish you to have the impression I’m some kind of OCD germophobe (met one of those in Group Therapy, whole 9 yards, tissue on doorknobs which is …

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“Leave The Gun”

My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator. Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don’t have men killed. Oh. Who’s being naive, Kay? The Godfather is the truest movie about politics that has ever been written. All you needed to …

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Slow Play

Folks, I golf so I know just how it is. You want to do a deal so you call your Greens Keeper with whom you’re on a first name basis and set up a Tee Time, around 10ish so your (prospective) partner has enough time to stop at the office and pick up his weekday …

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Pathetic Earthlings

Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would’ve hidden from it in terror. Once again I woke up this morning facing a blank page when I fully expected …

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The Anti-Life Equation

I hope by now that regular readers will simply accept that I know a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff even though it’s not everything about anything and in some respects I’m as clueless as Sherlock- “What the deuce is it to me? You say that we go round the sun. If we …

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Tell Your Children

Drugs are bad, mmmkay? I’m sorry. I was stoned.

Comey Is No Hero

One of the most frustrating things this past week has been watching James Comey make the rounds of Stephanopoulos, Maddow, The View, along with other outlets and be lauded as some paragon of moral rectitude and virtue. Jim Comey is a lifelong Republican who willingly and enthusiastically signed off on Torture (a War Crime in …

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