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Read article here. This is a summary of the article from Daily Beast which is a subscription website. This was the featured story on Daily Beast (here if you have a subscrption). These are the relevant excerpts from the Raw Story article: In an interview with the Daily Beast’s Jose Pagliery, a celebrity athlete who…
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This is from Wikipedia: The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, died under torture after refusing to enter a plea, and…
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The HuffPost author quotes Ruth Ben-Ghiat: “But the booing is also a kind of lethal blow to the kind of ego that the strongman has because the secret of the strongman is that they are very weak and they are very brittle,….” The crucial qualifier above is “a kind of” because she doesn’t mean “a…
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The fable of the scorpion and the frog has been used frequently to describe Trump’s self-defeating behavior. This is another example. He just can’t help himself. He can’t resist the urge. It’s in his character.
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Being Trump means never saying you’re sorry and Unified Reich reference proves it, by Hal Brown, MSW
The Trump campaign blamed the “unifed Reich” reference on a staffer and took it down but 1) did they ever say they were sorry and most importantly, 2) did Trump personally ever apologize? As far as I can tell the answer is not only no but he hasn’t directly the matter. An explanation coming from…
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The line between free speech and speech that violates the Logan act has never (to my knowledge) been legally drawn. This is doubtless because Trump is the first presidential candidate to send a message to a foreign power (which has in a previous election made an effort to assist his winning campaign) having a dispute…
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We don’t know why Judge Cannon is doing everything she can to make sure the documents case doesn’t go to court before the election. It has been surmised that this was because Trump appointed her and she wants to curry favor with him for whatever reason. Now we learn there may be more nefarious reasons.
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It take years for the American Psychiatric Association to publish a new Diagnositic and Statistical Manual (DSM). The first was published in 1952 and the most recent, number 5, in 2013. The DSM is often referred to as “the bible of psychiatry” as you can see by looking the term up in Google here and…
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Below: The website for Rudy Coffee. It took a few days to be covered on Morning Joe, but the saga of Rudy Guiliani’s life journey, which could be seen as a trip down the road to oblivion along which he will suffer many well deserved indignities, made the news with his marketing a self-branded coffee.…