For three hours, yesterday morning, Donald Trump’s defense attorney Todd Blanche argued that Michael Cohen, a self-admitted liar, tax evader and thief is not the reformed citizen the district attorney of New York wants the jury to believe. Joshua Steinglass, who presented the People’s closing argument, rebutted this assumption when he reminded the jurors: He … Read more
If it did not already exist, my next book would be All I Really Needed to Know I Learned Watching Seinfeld: Or how the second button literally makes or breaks the shirt (Carlos Nicco/2014). This was never more true than this week when I realized how Season 5/Episode 9: The Masseuse explains Donald Trump’s mindset during … Read more
I hope you did not pack up and store your climbing paraphernalia. Why? No sooner had we rappelled down from our last trip to the summit of Bullshit Mountain, we need to scale it once more. And again, our guide is none other than Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch. To unlock the courthouse doors in … Read more
Yesterday, in the Supreme Court of the United States, Americans witnessed the hypocrisy of “Constitutional originalists” from the very top of Bullshit Mountain. The most egregious example of their own judicial philosophy, oddly, had nothing to do with the most absurd arguments put forth by Donald Trump’s attorney John Sauer’s response “it depends” to the … Read more
During a recent joint appearance with President Joe Biden, pro-Palestinian protesters interrupted Barack Obama. To which, after stipulating that he shared their concerns about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Obama said, “No, no, you can’t just talk. You also have to listen.” Picking sides in the on-going Israel/Hamas conflict is tough, even for life-long supporters … Read more