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They were there at Bedminster  kissing his ass last night—just in time to advise him re: his latest, but not last indictment

Everyone around Trump becomes infected not only with his malevolent duplicity but his delusional stupidity: how else to process the news that Trump & Co. are now going to use his trial for treason to actually attempt to re-litigate his … Continue reading →

In yet another sign that he and his running-mate Casey are complete, shameless frauds, Ron is now attacking “elites.”

“Elite Colleges Prefer Wealth” is the subhead in today’s New York Times story unpacking a new report by Opportunity Insights that details the “extent to which being very rich is its own qualification in selective college admissions.” And the GOP … Continue reading →

Reading Quentin Bell’s superb biography of Virginia Woolf. She decried the literary “Underworld” whose “ambition was to be on the winning side. . . When Conrad published Victory, Virginia found it hailed by the Underworld as a masterpiece. . . But … Continue reading →

Oh, but she says she’s a Christian, so no harm, no foul, right?

Ronny and Casey have turned the Sunshine  state into the Pariah state.

I kept experiencing that kind of double internal vision as I wrote “Growing Up Basquiat” for Air Mail, inspired by fellow former City-as-School students Al Diaz and Danny Kessler reminiscing with me about our mutual friend and classmate Jean.

A friend called to remind me that epochal and timeless “Strange Fruit,” immortalized by Irish Catholic African-American Billie Holiday, was based on a poem by white Jew Abel  Meeropol.

It was only a matter of time before Trump tried to deflect from his Adderall addiction by accusing-Biden-in-a-mirror of being  coked up.