Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Headline: How to get rid of Nicolás Maduro Sub-headline: An attempt to depose the dictator appears to have failed. Try again The Posh Boys paraphrase both John Bolton and Mike Pompeo: John Bolton, America’s national security adviser, said on April … Continue reading →

Headline: Joe Biden would offer US voters a welcome breather Sub-headline: Americans tend not to elect several high-drama presidents in a row If Mr. Biden has ‘friends’ like … ? Here Mr. Ganesh defines Biden for what he is: He is, … Continue reading →

Here is an actual Antisemitic cartoon from Julius Streicher’s Der Stürmer. And note, if the cartoon you were shrieking about were Antisemitic, Netanyahu would have had Trump by a leash, and BiBi would not have looked like a cute puppy … Continue reading →

Before Andy Divine’s latest attack on the political monster he helped to create, Trump, sinks into the shit-hole of a well deserved obscurity, some observations: Andy scours the internet for his  “to appease an angry king”  as his most recent descriptor … Continue reading →

“The previous administration chose not to publicize the full story about Russian computer hackers and social media trolls, and how they relate to a broader strategy to undermine America,” Mr. Rosenstein said. He left unmentioned that Republican congressional leaders urged … Continue reading →

The bumptious Canadian Frontiersman Jordan Peterson has become the latest, in a long line of moral/political reactionaries, defending the waning power of the ubiquitous White Male, and his ebbing control over the lesser beings of the planet. It is no … Continue reading →

Headline:Voters’ capacity for being appalled by Trump is waning Sub-headline: The Democrats should think hard about public tolerance for impeachment proceedings Bravo, Mr. Ganesh!for such a collection of observations beginning and ending with Bertolt Brecht and the East German One … Continue reading →

Is the eventual metamorphosis of Mr. West to be a combination of Gore Vidal’s ‘Kalki’ , script writer Bud Schulberg and director Elia Kazan’s ‘A Face in the Crowd’, with a just a bit of Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’? Mr. … Continue reading →

Here are some selected parts of Mr. Divine’s  latest essay, on the Mueller Report, as he retells it, in a carefully, what’s the current expression ‘curated’ reiteration of some of the most notorious personages, events etc. First of all, it … Continue reading →

Headline: Seeing red Sub-headline: A Spanish journalist’s bafflement at the resurgence of communism To say that Mr. Fernandez-Armesto is a Posh Boy is to utter a cliche , with the proviso that he is of an earlier iteration of this … Continue reading →