now we’re just doing donuts in cuckoo canyon (I didn’t even know that was possible!)

December 2020

“In the waning days of his presidency, a stewing Trump has reportedly considered issuing blanket pardons to his staff, with requests logged on a spreadsheet; one White House insider told CNN that Trump’s last-minute pardon scramble has turned crazy. I’m sorry … turned crazy? This is the president who advised people to inject bleach, said that a dead Venezuelan leader stole the election, wanted to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland and wanted to stop hurricane with a nuclear bomb. We made the turn to crazy town a long time ago, now we’re just doing donuts in cuckoo canyon.” —Stephen Colbert

“Don’t get me wrong, after the last four years it will be nice to have a president who’s optimistic. But sometimes optimism can backfire. Biden’s like a football coach in a sports movie who says to a player, ‘you may be the smallest kid on this team but you’ve got the biggest heart. Now you go show them what you can do!’ And then a week later he’s sitting next to the hospital bed saying, ‘Doc told me you broke the leg in 50 places, I didn’t even know that was possible!’” —Seth Meyers

http://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2016/06/john-hulse-collected-poems-1985-2015.html

“A magisterial collection. An emotional roller coaster. Soon to be a cult classic. 

A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night On Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”