Hanging the President

What I hear is that Pres. Spanky has authorized a Chinese phone business, barred from this country because it was caught spying on Americans, to return to this country (and resume spying?). This kindness will save 70,000 jobs in China. Also China has loaned the Trump organization $500,000,000.00, 

Before anyone hangs Spanky, he deserves a fair trial. He has rights. 

None of the above concerns me. What concerns me is the official portrait of the President. Where do you hang it when he’s a traitor? I’m thinking Spanky will be hung with the other portraits but with the face to the wall. (Just a thought.)

Little

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, centrist of California, is up for election this year. To be re-elected she must first survive the jungle primary, which polling predicts will be easy. In the general election she will run against the person who finishes second. At the moment that is a damp turd named Patrick Little. The less said of Little, the better. But I digress. 

At the most recent meeting of the California Republican Party, Little was ejected. The leaders expelled Little, who then, literally, trampled on an Israeli flag in front of them. He’s running on a platform that calls for expelling Feinstein from the United States, along with my wife, daughters and granddaughter (and all Jews).  

Little praises Hitler, promotes Holocaust denial and has been banned from Twitter.  

The core of Little’s support seems to be Asian. He is getting 30% of the Asian vote (to Feinstein’s 38%). I read recently that Anti-Semitism has become strong among Asians around the globe. Apparently books based on Jewish conspiracy theories sell well in China and Japan.

I frown on Feinstein and Israel, but Little is worse than Trump. I may, in the end, have my choice made for me. But what am I to make of such voters? 18% of all Californians prefer Little? And they lurch about on two feet among us? 

George Will Is a Fool

In some ways, George Will is looking good these days. He's left the Republican Party in disgust. He can't stand President Spanky. But don't forget this: when it mattered most, George Will was a climate change denier, because climate change didn't suit his beliefs about how the economy should work. He's a fool.

California Disintegrates

In my journeys on the 'net, I sometimes meet folks (often from Texas) who are pleased to tell me that California is falling in a death spiral. They claim that residents of California are fleeing the state to escape from taxation, businesses are leaving to find more welcoming capitalist subcultures, family values people (the sort who grab women by their private parts) have packed their pickups and are on the road to Idaho.

But we learned yesterday that California recently passed Great Britain and became the world's fifth largest economy. 

Tell me again why we can't afford single payer and free universities like Great Britain. 

Hybrid Vigor and Cultural Colonialism

Outbreeding enhancement (hybrid vigor) is the improved functioning of any biological offspring whose parents have crossbred. More vigor and other improved qualities are often but not always the outcome. This is an established fact in science. 

I’m bringing this up in connection with a problem raised by Michael Wong in a comment about cultural appropriation vs. diversity. 

Cultural appropriation is the adoption of the customs, practises, ideas, etc. of one people or society by members of another.  For example, a Californian eats Lima beans without acknowledging that they were developed near Lima, Peru. Or, more to the point, Pat Boone sings songs developed by Little Richard. That was a very bad thing, believe me.

On TV I watched a Vietnamese-American USC professor say, as an aside, that the problem with his having English as a first language was that it was a form of colonial appropriation. (He apparently believed that he should have grown up with Vietnamese as his first language.)

In short, if the West adopts something from another culture, that may be an inappropriate thing for the West to do. And if another culture adopts something from the West, that may be an inappropriate thing for the West to allow (colonialism). (For some reason the West takes the blame in both directions,)

Nations like Canada and the United States, formed by mixing and borrowing from all sorts of cultures, are, in a sense, inappropriate, I suppose. Do they get big doses of something I might call cultural hybrid vigor? Was the super-burrito invented in San Francisco? Do beavers have orange teeth? (yes)

A Good Arrest

Sunday's Press Democrat reported that a homeless man with a fake handgun and fake bullets was arrested yesterday in Old Courthouse Square. Officers approached him with guns drawn. The homeless man went for his fake automatic, but an officer knocked him off his bike, and the police took the fool into custody alive. They didn't shoot him. It took courage not to shoot first (just in case). That's my idea of excellent police work, deserving of good salaries and pensions. 

Everybody Knows

Everybody knows that I never met Stormy Daniels. The photograph of me smiling next to Daniels is a fake that a child could make with a smart phone. 

Everybody knows the attorney who doesn't work for me part-time, Leonard Cohen, paid Daniels $130,000. You'll have to ask Leonard why he did it. Remember, I never met a Canadian. 

Everybody knows I said from the start that I had sex with Daniels once, but I had nothing to do with paying her hush money.

Of course, everybody knows I repaid Cohen in eight installments for the hush money he fronted, but I never had sex with that woman. Fake news.

Everybody knows Cohen has the facts wrong, but he's a great guy. He's getting up to speed.

Everybody knows about Sarah Huckabee-Sanders. This is a witch hunt, and I'm not the witch. Why aren't we investigating Sarah and Bernie Sanders? All I wanted was a long-stemmed rose.

Everbody knows that I've been discreet, but there are so many people I want to meet without their clothes. That's how it goes.

A Horse With No Name

A discussion of when we should capitalize the word "god" (when it is a name), led me to thinking about my visit to the No Name Cafe in Sausalito on Sunday. The name of this cafe is not "No Name." It just has no name. So I guess it should be called the no name Cafe. It turned out to be a bar without a kitchen. You can order food successfully--they send out to nearby deli. Obviously it isn't a cafe. What should I call it? (I may be caught in a loop on a horse with no name.)

The Role of Reason

Last night Colbert talked about a fit of illogic expressed by President Spanky. As you know, a Russian lawyer who met with Spanky folk during the 2016 campaign recently admitted that she had been a Russian agent acting on behalf of the Putin government. Spanky’s response was that the woman his people had met with was not really a spy answering to Putin. She had acted on her own. She was only saying she was a spy now because Putin ordered her to say it (to embarrass Spanky), and, of course, she had to obey Putin, because she is, as everybody knows, a Russian agent.

Then yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a talk in which he reminded us that in years past Iran had attempted to build nuclear weapons while keeping it a secret. The secrecy was unsuccessful, which led to a nonproliferation treaty. Iran is today subject to inspections. This reminded me that America had once successfully built nuclear bombs while keeping it a secret. Also Israel built nuclear bombs while keeping it a secret, and these countries keep building new secret bombs, not subject to inspections. 

Meanwhile the globe revolves, tumbling toward drastic changes in climate as bonobos throw dung at one another. (Somehow we’ll adjust and muddle through.)

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