Of all the petty, immature, so-called “humor”: making fun of Ivanka’s unintentional windblown look? …Okay, guilty. Maybe she instinctively puffs her arms when feeling threatened. [Stop, Burr! Just stop! – Aunt Tildy].driftglass speculates on what Ivanka will wear tomorrow. I’m so … very … ashamed.
Category 5 hurricanes are epic in their destructive force. Several have hit the United States since my President took office. Mr. Trump has been publicly befuddled each time. M. Bouffant at Web of Evil follows the terrible history of Category 5 hurricanes as they howled through the mind of Donald Trump.
PZ Myers tracks hilarious internet reaction to my President’s increasingly shrill double downs, triple downs, quadruple and quintuple and on and on downs to his sharpie down dumb defense of what started as a simple, innocent verbal stumble. Just … can’t … admit … a mistake. Ever.
Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post is angry about the latest anti-immigrant cruelty by the Trump administration: sending a new official order to desperately ill people, mostly children, who are here temporarily for medical treatment unavailable elsewhere in the world. They, and their families, are ordered to drop all treatment and leave the country within 33 days. Not all are children. Jack reports on one severely disabled young adult woman, who will likely not live long after her forced return to Guatemala.
nojo watches, and laughs at, the drama. Conservative columnist Bret Stephens discovers some obscure criticism by a distant professor and goes all how-dare-he. Looks up the fellow’s boss and his boss’s boss and writes to them. THEN obsesses in print about it: A true competitor to Donald Trump for the Philip Queeg Strawberry Award. Great fun is had by all, with the exception of Bret Stephens. Calling Bret’s reaction an overreaction is an underreaction.
John Scalzi writes science fiction. He writes with enough talent to win the coveted Campbell Award, originally named after influential editor John W. Campbell. It has recently been renamed. The Gunn Center of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas also is renaming their annual Campbell conference. It is now the Gunn Conference. John Scalzi defends that decision, and similar decisions by other institutions. Seems Campbell was a fascist jerk who used his editorial position, attempting to impose his horrible views on writers of science fiction everywhere.
Frances Langum reports as Sarah Huckabee Sanders reports on her first day reporting to Fox television. Seems she is surprised and disappointed to discover so many feminists don’t like her. After all, she is a woman.
Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara suggests that our annual celebration of Labor Day is absurd. Labor has minimal value. It’s skill and intellect and merit that are valuable. Besides, Labor Day is, well, kind of marxist.
I hope the sweatshop seamstresses in China at least have a few laughs while they’re making such ridiculous fashiony clothes.
There does seem to be a dark side to almost everything in TrumpWorld.