TEE-BALL, AND NO JAIL FOR HILLARY IN 2016

With this puzzling statement, President Obama provided a strong clue — despite evidence that Hillary Clinton could exchange her presidential campaign aspirations for an orange jumpsuit, and in the face of an ongoing FBI investigation of whether or not Deep State’s most favored candidate conducted classified State Department business on her private email apparatus — […]

SUNDAY SMACK: LIFE UNDER TRUMP?

By now, you’ve seen the Boston Globe’s (satire?) front page that’s supposed to predict what a Donald Trump presidency would look like in a year. [PDF.] The newpaper, which published an accompanying editorial to explain why Trump must be stopped compared the GOP front runner to a dictator: If Trump were a politician running such […]

PANAMA PAPERS AND HILLARY CLINTON’S SLOW BURN

A torn backside for the rest of America to see is the risk Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton takes when she constantly fence-hops to give the appearance of being a populist to primary voters while also acting as a member of the Oligarchs Booster Club. She also makes her opponent Bernie Sanders look like a […]

BIG WAVE OF BOND DEFAULTS COMING

I’ll get around to posting more detailed thoughts about the economy by next week at latest, but those of you who’ve read my posts like this or this already know that I think the global economic recovery of 2009 is a joke. Yes, “global” includes the United States. In “The Coming Default Wave Is […]

PANAMA PAPERS — A FAMILIAR SONG AT THE MOMENT

None of my initial thoughts about the Panama Papers will involve me covering my mouth in shock. Don”t we know by now that ultra-rich folks, both of the legal and illegal varieties, stash loot overseas? Shoot, the rich admitted about a year ago to owning private airstrips and remote hideouts — in case the global […]

AN ALBUM (OR TWO) IN MY HEAD 0065

MAXWELL MAXWELL’S URBAN HANG SUITE 1996 20 years ago yesterday, after a bout of hesitation by Columbia Records and Modern Soul recording artist Maxwell, Urban Hang Suite was released to a consumer market where — for right or wrong reasons — American music executives and many performing artists cowered into creative capitulation by the powerful […]

SUNDAY SMACK: TRUMP, CRUZ & KASICH DEAL?

There’s been play talk about a grand compromise which could save the Republican Party from civil war or even implosion this summer, and I want your thoughts about it. The hypothetical deal is that the GOP allows Trump to become the Presidential nominee without any resistance from party bigwigs. In return, Trump chooses John Kasich […]

WHO THE HELL IS ‘GUCCIFER,’ AND HOW CAN HE PUT HILLARY CLINTON IN JAIL?

What does a Romanian hacker, whose crimes recently earned him extradition to the United States, have to do with the Hillary Clinton jail post I promised? Perhaps nothing — or plenty. The hacker in question is Marcel Lehel Lazăr, better known as Guccifer, and he’s responsible for the original leak of Clinton emails that started […]

WRITER’S BLOCK: HOW WILL THE 2016 ELECTIONS BE SCRIPTED?

There’s trouble in Hollywood Washington this year. Buying into Frank Zappa’s axiom that “Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex” also means reconciling the role elections — and theoretically, independent-minded voters — play in this metaphorical value chain. Therefore, extending Zappa’s logic would likely lead you to conclude that America’s two major […]

AN ALBUM (OR TWO) IN MY HEAD 0064

GEORGE BENSON THE NEW BOSS GUITAR OF GEORGE BENSON WITH THE BROTHER JACK MCDUFF QUARTET 1964 Understanding why guitarist George Benson is often called Bad Benson requires a simple exercise going play any song with him on it. Bad Benson — who also released a studio album with that moniker in 1974 — made his […]