I wanted to write today about the fact that Republicans, having successfully passed a $1 trillion tax cut for America’s most wealthy, are now using the subsequent loss in federal revenue to justify devastating cuts to welfare, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, but then two people wrote to me, telling me about how Donald Trump […]
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Trump not only killed the Republican Party, but the Christian right as well
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bill Clinton, Billy Bush, born again christian, Donald Trump, Focus on the Family, God, grab them by the pussy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, James Dobson, Medicaid, Medicare, Melania Trump, Paul Ryan, Pussy Sweat, religion, religious extremism, Sean Hannity, sexual misconduct, shithole, social security, Stormy Daniels, tax cuts, Vladimir Putin, welfare, Young and Anal 81 Comments
“I thought it would be easier.”
Of all the baffling, cringeworthy, infuriating things that Trump has said over these past 99 days in office, I think this is the one that will stick with him to the end. What makes it so striking, I think, is its incredible simplicity and uncharacteristic truthfulness. In an age so full of lies, and so […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged complaining, complaints, Donald Trump, hard work, Night of the Living Dead, Shirley MacLaine 25 Comments
Brendan Toller’s documentary “Danny Says” to be released September 30
A year or so ago, as you may recall, I interviewed filmmaker Brendan Toller about Danny Says, a documentary that he’d been working on concerning the life, adventures and cultural impact of Danny Fields, the man who, among other things, got the Stooges signed to Elektra in 1968, and later went on to become the […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized Also tagged Blackfish, Brendan Toller, Brian Epstein, Danny Fields, Danny Says, Datebook, David Bowie, documentary, gay history, Gimme Danger, homosexuality, Iggy and the Stooges, Iggy Pop, independent film, Jim Jarmusch, John Lennon, Magnolia Pictures, Mayor of Sunset Strip, more popular than Jesus, public relations, punk rock, Ramones, Rodney Bingenheimer, The Beatles, The Stooges, The Wolfpack 3 Comments