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David Roberts's avatar

Like "Joan Rivers' apartment" was somehow perfect. I've never seen it but I didn't have to.

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Robin D's avatar

What's funny is I actually have been to her apt, I think the late 1990s for one of her Christmas parties.It was fantastic. Over the top without a doubt, but elegant. She said she lived like Marie Antoinette if MA,had money.

No, this Oval Office is as tacky and fake as our Pres. . Every time I catch pictures of him by the mantel it looks like he adding more and more "gold tchotchkes". There used to be ivy on top of the mantle. . I wasn't even sure that gold decoration of the front of the fireplace was always there.I don't know if he goes to the warehouses himself, because I don't think I've seen Melania but, I actually think he was going for a more.Buckingham.Palace-vibe. You know how he worshipped the Queen and somewhere in his mind he thinks they had such a special relationship. I thought with all the paintings and busts and gold showing up it was to make him appear more " Kingly". After all, with his plans for tearing up the rose garden lawn and other decorating ideas, it doesn't sound like someone intends to be leaving at the end of his lame-duck term if he is still here.

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Frau Katze's avatar

The new Oval Office looks terrible!

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Robin D's avatar

It looks like a hoarder lives there, he's got so much junk around him. The only thing that's empty is his desk, because he doesn't do anything!

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Frau Katze's avatar

Agree!

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Leigh Horne's avatar

I suppose you already know that reading your creamy and well-spiked prose is like eating the kind of chocolates a billionaire Forrest Gump might ingest as he clambered aboard a rocket to go, em, really high up there. I had been trying manfully (sic), but without success to deal with the Overgroomed Celebrities' irrelevant rocket promo as well as the fact that our government has finally owned its true identity as a mashup of Nazi Germany and the Mafia when my internal PC entered a never-ending loop: Do we apply for an exit visa now, or ought we first plot an overthrow based upon writing yet more impassioned letters to our congressmen? Anyway, gracias. I needed something sweet.

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Suzanne Cully's avatar

The parliamentary form of government is a much better and more stable system.

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Frau Katze's avatar

Agree. The PM is just another MP. The party can also replace him if they want (just did that in Canada).

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SB's avatar

I particularly liked "the astronomical wealth of the Silicon Valley crowd and the moral weightlessness that goes with it". On the farce (this latest one!) in the Oval Office, I guess we'll soon see how many divisions the SCOTUS has. None, of course, unless some of the Republican politicians suddenly unexpectedly grow a spine. Meanwhile, I'm with you on the Commons. Another world, at least for now.

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Mill's avatar

"Sane and courteous"--wow. I love it.

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Linda Janklow's avatar

You have captured the mafioso “ follow the money” perfectly ! Brilliant in every way .

Linda

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Kevin Sessums's avatar

loved this one - the whole thing .. thanks

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Melissa Sullivan's avatar

My favorite quotes:”Real Housewives of Uranus”…”Gen Z is still whimpering on Slack about the summons to come into the office”…”inhaling their wealth and power like second hand smoke” and the start discussing insecurity over a “drop dead sexy” dress code, priceless. Super!🤗

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Mary Lou Kurtz's avatar

I so envy everyone with dual citizenship and passports

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Conrad Quilty-Harper's avatar

Curious whether you think there's a tinge of misogny in the reaction to the latest launch. I don't remember everyone getting so worked up about William Shatner's flight in Jeff Bezos' cock rocket, yet he too is an album chart topper like Katy.

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Robin D's avatar

Because he was Capt.James T. Kirk of the USS Starship Enterprise, whose 5 year mission was to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations , to boldly go where no man had gone before. Really, who could have been more perfect for Bezos to send?

Katy Perry put the "ass in astronaut".😂

I wonder what Sunita.Williams who was stuck there for 9 months on the ISS thinks and probably didn't even have a tube of chapstick..There were 2 female scientists with them and barely a word. This was not serious, unless they were looking to see how long plastic boobs and botox'd fish lips survive at zero gravity. Lol.

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Jeremy Gerard's avatar

Spin cycle: everything emerges in a damp clump of dry wit. Your columns are beacons in the darkness, bouncing like disco lights off the crumbling plaster walls of Studio 47. >>In the U.S., Fox News was the original culprit for ending civil discourse.<< I don't think so. Civil discourse ended with deregulation and the rise of Jerry Springer, Sally Jessy Raphael, Morton Downey Jr. and their ilk (which, btw, included Mother Winfrey in her initial, scandal-mongering succubus [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/15/arts/tv-notes.html]). Fox News, no question, irradiated the concept to metastatic proportions...Speaking of Oprah, I had to laugh at the (possibly intended) malaprop that Gayle King braved the "flack" for refusing to ignore Kobe Bryant's history. I've no doubt that some overpaid p.r. factotum tried to rake her over the coals, but I believe it was flak that bounced off her imperviousness...

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Rachel Johnson's avatar

Your friends being more “Drop dead” than “sexy” made me howl with laughter

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Maggie Alderson's avatar

I don't know who you follow, but my Instagram feed is all hilarious home-filmed comedians, a Turkish woman who makes the most incredible food using ancient bowls and ladles, wonderfully messed-up English country house interiors and cats doing crazy stuff. Some pandas. I do think you would enjoy @englisheccentrichome and Jake Lambert https://www.instagram.com/p/DBdQNBsiMVV/

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Gabor Laszlo's avatar

Just wondering, how many white “ homegrown “ right wing fascist groups have been sent to SAN Salvador

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surf nots's avatar

Get me rewrite: Now Trump, mindlessly stoopid looping his outsized failed polygraph Sharpie cartoon of a signature on stacks of executive orders taking a giant sequential crap on the First Amendment and just as ignorantly, arrogantly and vengefully continuing his campaign to outlaw free speech on college campuses, using authoritarian techniques to bully and quash his critics into silence.

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TGLloyd's avatar

The United States is headed back to being a mediocre power. No rational country will trust us again. Good jobs will be had in coal mines . People will be dying from black lung and polio. Trump has been a perfect Russian asset.

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