(Sigh) I hate being obliged to defend Donald Trump, which is why it irritates me that the more enthusiastic anti-Trumpers among you sometimes put me in that position. To wit: even though we are predisposed to think of the man as terrible in every way, because in many ways he is, and even though this […]
The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner has always been a terrible idea. At its worst it’s demonstrated just how cold and unfeeling the Administration is: i.e. the “comedic” film of Dubya looking for weapons of mass destruction in his office, while actual, you know, human beings were dying by the score for that wild […]
I would prefer if responses didn’t get into tributes to, or debates on the quality of, a movie, but I keep coming up against Aaron Sorkin’s political romantic comedy, THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT, and in particular President Shepard’s genial response to someone stammering an apology for a name-calling rant the President walked in on: “Is it […]