Scathing Online Schoolmarm Says:

Extremely good writers can take what you know, re-charge it, and scare you.

Shades of Brezhnev/Honecker.

Cleveland, today.

Germany, 1979 and 1990.

‘La Cage Aux Follicles’

Because this is a blog that appreciates word play.

Tetchy techies….

… in a collective bad mood because of you know who.

From the Republican Convention

Buttons seen on arriving women delegates.

‘YOU’RE A WOUNDING SON OF A BITCH’
— Louise Bryant

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‘Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.’
— Sylvia Plath

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‘WHAT IF SHE ACTUALLY ENJOYED HER DEBASEMENT?’
O

Headline of the Day.

Dentist Who Pleaded Guilty To Tax Evasion Braces For Prison After Sentencing

Nice pun. Deserves a plaque.

Tweets for English Professors.

Trump/Gingrich: a presidential ticket that would have more infidelity than the collected works of Philip Roth & John Updike combined.

Jeet Heer.

A Nightmare from which Historians are …

trying to awake.

The Republican Convention – AKA…

The Nunberg Trials.

With the Republican Convention Down to the Short Strokes…

… organizers are working on smoothing out any contradictions between a ferociously anti-pornography platform and a presidential candidate whose namesake hotel hosts the annual eXXXotica Expo.

“[T]he potential is there for Cleveland to be a complete shit show.”

What? With Bikers for Trump providing security?

Sunrise this Morning, Rehoboth Beach

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V. hard to get the bird to pose.

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A bit later, with container ship.

UD Begins to Discern the Lucy Van Pelt Strategy.

[Trumper Warning]

Every week or so, a new high-profile woman (Megyn Kelly, Elizabeth Warren, Ruth Bader Ginsburg) pulls a football out from under Donald Trump.

Like Charlie Brown, he can’t help going for the thing, kicking the air as it’s pulled away and landing on his ass.

UD thinks it’s time for the strategy to go international. Malala Yousafzai held the ball out for Trump last December, but he didn’t go for it because he hadn’t yet won the nomination. UD hopes whoever’s coordinating the LVP strategy thinks to tap Malala again. Whiff time.

“The ruling could leave the university without tens of millions of dollars it planned on recouping for settlement amounts that have already been paid out.”

But come on.

Price of doing football, America! A bargain at twice the price!

‘Fighting For Money, Penn State Exhibits Staggering Vileness Again’

Headline of the day.

And hey how ’bout that college football, huh?

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