Monday, June 15, 2026

It Bears Repeating

JFK once invited to dinner 49 Nobel laureates, Robert Frost, William Styron, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Katherine Anne Porter, John Dos Passos, James Farrell and Lionel and Diana Trilling, and others. His line on the occasion became famous: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

Some of you were alive when that happened.
And have lived to see this: And yes, that "claw” was just a giant, fucking light bar. Still don’t know why they call it a “claw”; still don’t want to know. But the UFC fighter is right: this was bread and circuses: Except the Romans made sure people could get into the arenas to watch blood sports so they wouldn’t mind the oppression of the Roman economy. Trump uses tax money to charge for the event with pay per view as a reward to his rich friends rewarding him. In other words, useless scrip. Trump would take the pennies off his dead mother’s eyes.

And in case you were wondering:
Yeah, he did.
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