Ron Ecker

It's not too bad at all. Good riddance to all of them. It will be the nearest Trump came to draining the swamp (after he helped infest it).

It couldn't be as good as Love and Death, a Woody Allen movie about... I don't remember exactly, something about an old man who had this little piece of land.

Back in those days I only believed what the government told me, not what some kook like Bob Dylan sang. It took the full-fledged Vietnam War and (on JFK) two kooks named Jim Marrs and David Lifton to open my eyes.

If you're old enough to remember the Twist, don't try to do it.

Kirk, haven't you figured it out yet? He's crazy. (Not as in "a wild and crazy guy," but as in a mental basket case.) If you want the details, ask our resident psychiatrist. He has him pegged just as other psychiatrists have pegged him. Actually by now you don't even have to be a psychiatrist.

Steve, does Hannity have a live audience now (I'm not going to tune in to his show to find out), or by "audience" do you mean that Trump turned to the camera? You could be wrong about "imaginary." Trump's "friend" could be a real person. Kim Jong Un, since we know that he and Trump are in love. (Trump has said it, so we know that it's true.)

Why does Morley question why "presidential historian" Doug Brinkley doesn't dare utter the word "conspiracy" in interviewing conspiracy theorist Dylan about "Murder Most Foul"? Every "presidential historian" that I'm aware of avoids the word like the plague, unless it's just to dismiss the notion. Morley should be perfectly aware of the fact (though he doesn't mention it) that the reputations and careers of "presidential historians" depend on their adherence to the official story, which is they adhere to it. It's not because they're stupid, though Morley pretends to wonder why Brinkley asks Dylan stupid questions not related to any conspiracy. "Presidential historians" might even change the known facts about the assassination. As I recall, "presidential historian" Robert Dallek wrote, in his book "An Unfinished Life," that JFK was shot "in the lower neck." Well, I guess you could say that, if you consider the upper back to be the lower neck. I have to assume that Dallek used to the word "neck" so as not to deviate from the single bullet theory. Who knows? All we know is that Dallek, like Brinkley in his interview of Dylan, was protecting his reputation and career.

I guess I'll have to order the album. I was a big Dylan fan back in the day. Though the first time I heard him (the old acoustical stuff) I didn't understand the appeal. He was an acquired taste. Actually my favorite Dylan song may not be a Dylan song at all but his great cover of Jimmie Rodgers' "My Blue Eyed Jane." (Not Dylan's old version but the later one with full band, it's on an album of Rodgers songs by various artists.) As for Dylan's other work, I've heard that another favorite of mine, "Mr. Tambourine Man," is about a dope peddler. Makes sense. Maybe it was inspired by "The Old Dope Peddler," a song on an old album by Tom Lehrer.

Why is Trump assuming there will be mail-in voting? The postal service will have run out of money and won't exist in November unless there's a bailout, and Trump (surprise) has said he will veto any bailout. And I can just see the Republican cowards and sycophants on Capitol Hill overriding a veto. So there will have to be voting in line, in person, and since it's his base that has no fear of such gathering during a pandemic (some even calling the virus a hoax) it will amount to voter suppression in Trump's favor.

"‘There were only 6,000 some odd people there,' host Reid noted." Yep, that was "some odd people," all right.

I watched a bad movie on TCM instead.

He doesn't have to.

Trump, being the Bible lover that he is, plans to quote St. Paul to his maskless, packed-in followers tonight: "O death, where is thy sting? O virus, where is thy victory?"

You probably think COVID-19 is a hoax.

No, Trump is just awesome. (As for Bolton, who wouldn't testify during the impeachment, if he loses all the book earnings he was holding out for, that will be awesome too.) I wonder how many people Trump can kill in Tulsa tonight. (He says only a few will get sick. Any deaths will be slow and painful over weeks, of course, though Trump apparently couldn't care less. Just awesome.)

Trump says only a few people at the rally may get sick. (He doesn't mention the possible consequences, dying.) IOW just one or more deaths is worth satisfying Trump's need for attention for a day. As usual he is all that matters.

He had already cut the heart out of it. Might as well carve up the limbs.

Briefly. A friend (who was just as drunk as I was) bailed me out. When I went to court the judge fined me $500. And I can attest that anyone who drives under the influence after one arrest for it is an idiot. Of course it's actually idiotic even before an arrest.

One night long ago in Atlanta I had trouble parking my car in front of my apartment because of too much liquid refreshment. Two cops happened to be across the street on some kind of call. They saw my difficulty and called me over to them when I got out of my car. They questioned me and I admitted that I had been drinking. I told them that all I wanted to do was go into my apartment and sleep it off. One of the cops asked the other one, "What do you think we should do with him?" Then I made my mistake. I said, "Let's decide something one way or the other." And the cop said, "Okay, let's take him in." That night was my one and only ride in a paddy wagon.

Donald Trump, COVID-19, and a fractured society. The perfect storm. I think we're living in the decline and fall of America. Some descendant of Edward Gibbon will write a book about it.

It's possible that Biden may be able legitimately to call Trump a "lying, orange-faced killer" by the time November rolls around. A factor in the election could be the number of lawsuits against the Trump campaign over COVID-19 deaths resulting from the Tulsa rally and rallies to follow. I'm not a lawyer, but I hope the medical expert is right who said today on TV that by deliberately luring people into such a dangerous situation, the waivers being required by the Trump campaign aren't worth the paper they're written on. The Tulsa rally is an incredibly irresponsible act by a national "leader" during this pandemic. Quantitatively it's not as bad as the followers of Jim Jones dying from cyanide ingestion at Jonestown, but killing people is killing people, whether it's people at the rally or people they then infect.

Au contraire, that couldn't have been original. Biden was quoting somebody. It sounds like a line from a movie (like Brando's "you scum-sucking pig") back before profanity was allowed. (Except, of course, for "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"). I'm encouraged that at least Biden was able to remember it. (I also think he apologized, although my memory sometimes seems to be gone with the wind.)

Trump is hardly known for consistency. (Has COVID-19 disappeared yet?)

I would advise Biden to say four words that Trump can never utter: "I made a mistake."

I'm going to write a book called "How Hillary Clinton and the Democrats Gave Us the World's Most Dangerous President." Subtitled "With a Little Help from James Comey."