The State of the Union? Nobody cares, and nobody should, Jim Newell argues, because “it has lost its efficacy in the age of the one-minute news cycle.”
Speaking of tired scripts, Republicans are continuing their pretense, apparently for the consumption of their cult alone, that the FBI is engaged in a coup against Trump (to which I say, if only). The House voted to release their “memo” about this earth-shattering news. I’m starting to think that a lot of these Republicans are doing this out of more than loyalty to Trump. I suspect the Russians are paying off more than just Trump and Rohrabacher, because only naked greed would give sufficient motivation to sell out the country like this. I don’t believe people like Nunes and Gaetz would invest so much just to ride Trump’s coattails. There has to be something more in it for them.
Hey, I admit I was fooled by Julian Assange when WikiLeaks first emerged. But it’s long since become clear that he’s not the impartial revealer of secrets he pretends to be. Long, boring story, but when Sean Hannity’s Twitter account got hacked, he deleted it and people set up fake Hannity accounts. Assange actually contacted one of them to offer the not-actually-Hannity damaging information about Virginia Sen. Mark Warner. Assange is just lucky he was already hiding out the Ecuadorean embassy in London when #metoo broke out — people wouldn’t be so quick to believe he was set up on rape charges if they emerged today.
Gross but interesting story about Kevin Spacey centered on his older brother, Randy Fowler (Spacey is stage name). Randy has written a book about his childhood in which he recounts being <a href="“raped and beaten by their father, who also was a Nazi sympathizer. “All my life I thought I had protected Kevin from my father,” Randy Fowler told The Sun, “and it turns out it’s all for nothing because he’s worse than my father.”
Do you enjoy the films of Woody Allen? If yes, shame on you! I call on you to condemn him! But if you do, be aware that some people will defend him, and then you’ll have to condemn them, too. Pretty soon you’ll need a team of soap-opera writers to keep track of whose side everyone is on. Even back when I watched films I wouldn’t have cared, but the subject is gobbling up lots of pixels on the internet so I thought I’d mention it.