Wayward Landlubber

      I don't know if there is a book on making fun of people. I suspect that if there were, some people would still not understand the nuance between making fun of power and cruelty, that might include me. But unlike Dennis Miller or Jesse Watters, the first who did a face-plant on Foxnews and disappeared and the second faceplants on Foxnews daily and has not disappeared, I don't get paid for my wit. Or lack thereof.        It's not likely that any of my readers would know who Andrew Tate is, or they wouldn't have before the most spectacular self-own in the history of really stupid self-owns. For those who did not know what he did before he became the laughingstock of MAGAdumb, he is, or was a kickboxer. It is not likely he will be involved in professional kick boxing for quite a while, since he now faces indictment for human trafficking in Bulgaria, along with his brother. So feel free to kick the kickboxer while he is down. While that is not enough ...

     I am not well experienced in diplomacy on a world-wide scale. The best advice I have recieved is to walk away from a confrontation. My social media history would demonstrate my inability to follow  that advice, but I have lived through a number of diplomatic crisis, whose importance I was old enough to understand. Others were an important part of the histories I would later read.      Before my political awareness, I remember reading in My Weekly Reader about when the Premier of the Soviet Union, Nikita Kruschev, hosted Vice President Richard Nixon to an exhibit in Moscow that featured American products not available to the beleaguered people of the Soviet Union. This became popularly known as the Kitchen Debates. What I was able to learn as I matured is how this exhibit was designed and paid for by the State Department to demonstrate in front of a television camera the benefits capitalism offered the much beleaguered American housewife. Another d...

     Hillary Clinton has demonstrated yet another talent that Donald Trump can't claim; she wrote a book without a ghost writer. To be fair, she is credited with being a co-writer, her companion writer being a familiar name in political suspense novels, but we all know that Hillary can assemble a sentence effectively. I am pretty sure her name is not on the book as a publicity device. Besides the people who hate Hillary don't read much anyway, those who read would be more inclined to give her a good reception. I do not know how this book is being reviewed but it's a pretty good read. And clearly, Secretary Clinton was more than a passive contributor.      The story is of a female Secretary of State who was appointed by a president that wanted to ruin her political future. We are not told why she is hated by her president, which I think is a plot weakness. After all, these kind of internecine battles are practically a cliche in thriller/fiction, as in real l...