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Update 04/27/2025
Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency fired around 280 staffers and reassigned around 175 others — on Earth Day. How appropriate. …………………………….. Actor Jimmy Stewart was rejected by the military after he was drafted—he was too thin. As a show of patriotism, Stewart went on a weight-gaining diet, hoping to reverse the decision. He was accepted by Continue reading
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Update 04/23/2025
As Bloomberg reported, about 90% of the alleged “terrorists” and “gang members” who’ve been sent by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s notorious foreign prison without due process have no U.S. criminal record. Ah, but Trump doesn’t like your tattoo, or hoodie, or accent, or . . . you get it. ………………………………… In his Easter Continue reading
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Update 04/20/2025
Happy Easter, Earth Day, and whatever else it is. …………………………………….. At the most extreme, Trump and his allies tried to claim that his victory — the third-narrowest since World War II — represented a sweeping “mandate.” – Somehow this reminds me of when George Bush got re-elected and said he had a mandate to privatize Continue reading
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Update 04/16/2025
We are going on a two-day trip today, so this will likely be short. Going to our favorite Indian Casino and Resort in the hills east of Oceanside. Uphill. About 65 miles from here. They have an HK restaurant. And a spa. So, a pedicure for me! ………………………………………. 10:08 a.m. Monday, we just had an Continue reading
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Update 04/13/2025
After the stock rise on Wednesday, after the tariff reversal announcement, From Robert Reich: “The reversal prompted the S&P 500 stock index to climb over 7 percent in just minutes. Traders with inside information about what Trump was about to do — some of them, presumably, Trump family members and cronies — just made a Continue reading
