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Because in 1986 I purchased Charles Castle’s biography of set designer Oliver Messel, which has photos of the masks that Messel created for “Dance Little Lady,” when it was first heard as part of theLondon revue This Year of Grace. … Continue reading →

With a perfectly straight face, she insists that the Syrian refugees whom Trump has so savagely defamed and rejected really don’t want to seek refuge on our shores. Jon Swaine has a thing or to to say to that in … Continue reading →

Apparently, he sounded out his legal team about how groovy would the tail-wagging be if he bombed Syria. So the Wall Street Journal reports [behind firewall].

Pardon.  . . Bomb. . . Invade. . . Torture. . .

The vicious, vitriolic weasel throws a hissy fit at the House, stamps his little foot and says You Can’t Make Me answer a single question–because I couldn’t give a fuck about transparency or American democracy. In so many words. Na-na-NA-NA-na! … Continue reading →

He is now actively participating in Trump’s obstruction of justice, running to the warm, moist echo chamber of Fox “News” to lob an utterly unfounded and nonsensical villification of Mueller. Like so many around Trump, Dershowitz now concludes his career … Continue reading →

Fresh from his Fascist-promotion forages across Europe, the old slug is back: Bannon presents a typically off-the-rails, democracy-defiant plan to shut down America’s judicial system in order to insulate Trump from legal accountability.

Instead of Trump and the GOP’s constant, unrelenting attempts to humiliate recipients of social services with drug tests, I think Congress seems a more appropriate place to test. We pay these people to represents our interests, and instead they turn … Continue reading →

Even after Koch-puppet Mike Pompeo shamelessly trashed her, she is still willing to coach the abominable Pompeo on how to survive his confirmation hearings. Meanwhile, the real Democrat in the room, Senator Bernie Sanders tells us exactly what Pompeo is: “We … Continue reading →

I mean, as Seth Abramson tweeted, did anyone notice that Trump just said he’d tried to keep Mueller’s investigation “down”??