Aslo about Mike Johnson Just for fun, here’s the classic “you’re gonna need a bigger boat” clips from Jaws. Messiah Mike isn’t a trending hashtage on X, but perhaps it should be. I am doing my bit here. The new Speaker believes he’s on a mission from God. He might actually approve of being called…

We’re all hearing about the Maine spree shooter having been hospitalized in a psychiatric facility for two weeks this summer. He apparently was having auditory hallicinations. We don”t know if they were command hallucinations which are auditory hallucinations that instruct a patient to act in specific ways. These commands can range in seriousness from innocuous…

I got the idea for making the above illustration from this article in RawStory: Trump’s lawyers were ‘surprised’ fraud trial wasn’t like Legally Blonde: Legal expert. “Today… was a bit like watching ‘Legally Blonde,’ MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin told Chris Hayes on his show.  She cited a critical denouement at the end of the…

I am less bothered by the fact that Mike Johnson was one of the major election deniers than by his religious zealotry. This buggers the imagination: ‘Scripture is very clear’: New House speaker tells Congress that God has ‘ordained’ him Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, in his first remarks after being elected Wednesday afternoon,…

Of all the photos of him those which show his prodigious posterior have to be the ones he’d like to have erased from the collective memory of humankind. Look up “Trump’s fat ass” on Google images and below are the first photos you’ll see plus two more which have to make Trump wish he’d never…

Arguably the biggest domino (who was a Trump lawyer) to fall and be in line to crush the giant orange demagogic domino is Rudy Guiliani. Also in line to topple onto Trump and crush him is Mark Meadows (see update on bottom of page). Meadows isn’t a lawyer, in fact Trump’s former Chief of Staff…

There was some extraordinary news today which should interest physicists. It was reported in the HuffPost article “Trump: Sidney Powell Was ‘Never’ My Lawyer, But She’s Right About ‘Rigged’ Election.” The article begins: Donald Trump continued to push lies about a stolen election while reacting to lawyer Sidney Powell’s decision to accept a plea deal from Georgia prosecutors trying…

The screenshot above is from the discussion with Ruth Ben-Ghiat who is an expert on fascism and authoritarian leaders, on The Ali Velshi Show this morning about Trump haing posted an image of himself sitting in a courtroom next to Jesus. It doen’t take me long these days to prove Godwin’s Law when it comes to…

The top of the page story on HUFFPOST was a political analysis essay rather than a news article this morning. In the piece Paul Blumenthal, a senior reporter with the HuffPost Politics team, interviews Daniel Schlozman, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and an expert on political party history and behavior. Rather than summarize…