~ Scottie’s news-crits & commentaries, as rude as needed.
[FORENOTE: I have torn into lots of topics over time… this page will change as older stuff is added, framing the essays and giving context, moving items but providing stable links that will last. For now, the latest Rants come first, on the need to deal with the Donald Trump dilemma that is so urgent upon us.
Stay ‘Tooned… sca_Apr’17]
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[] TRUMPSTER-DIVING IN WHITE TRASH POLITICS___/
• The Bell Tolls as the Polls Close (Tuesday 8no16 – 7 PM CST)
~ my traditional ‘pre-elective invective’ to my family on presidential candidates — this time too late to manipulate votes but just in time to profile the Clinton-Trump Conundrum as a voter choice::: composed on Election Day, November 8, before the crazed craven outcome was known.
• MAKING AMERICA GRATE AGAIN —
Trump and the Rise of the Retro-Zombies (20ja17 – 4ap17)
~ an essay on the outset of the Trump Regime, the fallacies & faultlines in our politics, foretelling dire damage to our public life & planet — as sycophant ghouls with dead ideas turn back time and devolve the nation into a corporate scourge.
o “Appeal to the German People”
Adolf Hitler’s first national radio address upon becoming Chancellor of Germany on Jan. 31, 1933… English transcript (PDF) for sobering comparison to Trump’s inaugural speech.
(Attachment: “DEST_APPEAL1933_ENG.pdf”)
[] DEVO LAW IN DC___/
• Gonzales, Ex Post Facto ~ The Rise of Partisan Law (Feb. 2005)
A ‘News Commentary’ on the confirmation of Alberto Gonzales as the U.S. Attorney General, and his crass record as a Bu**sh** crony.
(PDF version): Gonzales_ExPostFacto-pcu,05209.pdf
• OPPOSING ALITO – the illogic of the jurisprudes (Jan. 2006)
‘Positions & Commentary’ to the Senate on the nomination of Sam Alito to the Supreme Court… chilling 1st Amendment views, hypocrisies on power, softball hearings.
(PDF version): Alito_Jurisprudes-06113.pdf
• Brat Kavanaugh’s Pall on Yale (March 2019)
Reflections on Brett Kavanaugh’s ascent to the Supreme Court, and the lurid Senate hearings that made things look grim “for God, for Country, and for Yale”.
(PDF version): Kavanaugh_PallonYale-mr19(b
• SCOTUS Hokus Pocus ~ Unpacking the Hacks on the Surreal Court (Oct. 2020)
On Ginzberg’s passing and Barrett’s promotion, ‘Supreme Sorcery’ in the emergent right-wing coup on the High Court, foreboding theocratic law resurrected from the 12th Century.
(PDF version): SCOTUS Hokus Pocus-oc20.pdf
[] GEOPOLITRIX___/
• Gaza Trails of Tears (Feb. 2024)
The tragedy escalates, as pathological Provocateur Politics swirls ancient peoples in cycles of hate and retribution, re-enacting old crimes of inhumanity and exile in our names.
(PDF version): Gaza Trails_Tears-fe24.pdf