The Madness of King Donald
- July 31, 2017
- by
- Matt
Even by the wild standards of what may well be the most deranged individual ever to inhabit the White House, Donald Trump has had a remarkable week. In the space of five working days he has:
publicly humiliated the admittedly creepy attorney general he himself appointed suggested that immigrants are criminals who cut up the bodies of beautiful young women turned a Boy Scout Jamboree into an anti- Obama hatefest given the police permission to smash arrestees’ heads against the wall even though many police chiefs have stated that they don’t want this ‘right’ tried and failed to take...
Civilization and its Malcontents
- July 12, 2017
- by
- Matt
In the conservative-far right lexicon, few words have the same emotive power as ‘civilization’ – a term that usually equates with ‘Western civilization’ or simply ‘the West.’ It’s one of those words that automatically gives depth and gravitas to the hollowest and tinniest of human mouthpieces.
Use it enough and you instantly begin to sound a...
Mar-a-Lago Goes to Warsaw
- July 07, 2017
- by
- Matt
It’s easy to mock Donald Trump, because almost everything he says and does is worthy of nothing but mockery. But just because it’s easy doesn’t mean you ought to stop doing it. Yesterday Trump attempted to re-cast himself as a 21st century incarnation of Ronald Reagan, in a paranoid and utterly...
Bombs and Chocolate
- April 15, 2017
- by
- Matt
For liberals who saw last week’s missile strikes in Syria as a belated but welcome act of humanitarianism, Donald Trump was always going to be an awkward president to share the moral high ground with. One minute he might be talking about beautiful babies and the children of God, but then he gives interviews...
Trump Goes Robocop
- April 10, 2017
- by
- Matt
There’s a certain kind of liberal/left commentator that – to paraphrase Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now – just loves the sight of missiles in the morning. For some they smell like humanitarianism. For others they smell like meaningful action. Or ‘doing something’. Mostly they have the allure of American power...
Reflections on the Bowling Green Massacre
- February 25, 2017
- by
- Matt
As some readers of this blog will know, for the last four months I’ve been heavily involved in the One Day Without Us campaign, which came to an end last Monday. For much of this time my normal life has been on hold and pretty much everything has revolved around the campaign. ...
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