Time Magazine on the Big Fix

 You’ve seen Time magazine’s article on ‘The Big Fix’, I suppose, though if you live in google world you'll only have seen just it and very little commentary from left or right.  On qwant.com (French search engine) there’s lots from the conservative blogosphere on the front page.

the big fix

 We were jokingly informed of shenanigans or sportive rascality but this is different.  The extent and depth of it is like a Hollywood scenario, ‘Parallax View’, but more so. (Tag Line: There is no Conspiracy just Twelve People Dead)  To get the Chamber of Commerce on your side talk to them about Anitfa and BLM.  ‘They are not reliable and they get carried away’, capeesh.  In the end that may not be so smart if you remember how the Taliban were used to get rid of the Russians.

Why reveal now but, as the Dubbilin man said?  Marking your territory like Jack Nicholson in ‘Wolf’. (Tag Line: The Animal is Out).  Straois mada (dog’s smirk), irresistable gloat or the feeling that Trump won’t be impeached and is wise to keep off the stand.  If you annoy him enough but, he might utter a tirade.  Maybe and then there’s the final fix.  I hope he’s well protected.

What-gate

 The Smoking Man.  We already have one.  Now all we need are Bernstein and Woodward manques.  Joe ‘Big Guy’ might like Nixon get elected and later be impeached.  What sort of -gate will it be: Tweakergate, Lapgate ?  Cast your minds back, this is just beginning to roll.

New Loyalty Oath

Reading the usual blogs that someone such as myself with an interest in literature and philosophy would read I feel as though I had somehow got on the wrong bus and was delivered to a re-education camp. Like a travelling symptom the 'paranoid style' which afflicted conservatives has jumped to the other side of the American divide. Perfectly legal immigrants such as Amod Lele feel that they might be lifted and find themselves back in, OMG, in Canada.
disengaged Buddhism

Amod make it a nine-fold path. Add 'get real or 'get a grip'. Declaring yourself anti-Trump is becoming the liberal version of a loyalty oath.

Come back Norman Mailer

Mailer thou shouldst be living at this hour, America hath need of thee. He characterised Hillary's adhesion to Bill as her fidelity to a conduit to power and told the Titanic joke at which the press laughed uneasily but this latest outbreak of hypocrisy would test his metaphoric powers.
titanic

'As though out of the permafrost of American puritanism the virus dormant in the exhumed corpse that had brought in Prohibition had mutated and commonplace lewdness was now a crime 'anathema sit' to be enforced by supporters of the sale of body parts. This from an administration that was not ashamed to photograph the cabinet watching the Bin Laden snuff movie and Hillary there rapt. Overseeing that mission was the work of military commanders not ghouls in suits. The spontaneous remark that captures her dangerous anger 'We came, we saw, he died'. What would Norman say? 'Marinated in the acid gravy of Bill's contumely there would be hell to pay when she became commander in chief and Bill would shrink to a purse sized Bubba.'