I just read Charlie Sykes's column from March 19, "Idiots with Flamethrowers" in which he makes the important observation that clowns, really, are not the best characters to represent the vile, very unfunny activities of the Trump administration.
To summarize his point, we need clowns to make us happy and laugh, especially in times like t…
I just read Charlie Sykes's column from March 19, "Idiots with Flamethrowers" in which he makes the important observation that clowns, really, are not the best characters to represent the vile, very unfunny activities of the Trump administration.
To summarize his point, we need clowns to make us happy and laugh, especially in times like these where one's natural tendency is to scream and weep and pull the covers over oneself in bed and hope that the latest "Breaking News" banner is really just a nightmare -- a frightening dream that we can wake up from when the daylight streams through our windows.
Sadly, no, the headlines and copy are not nightmares, they are the world that we must live in, and from now on, I'm going to refrain from calling the Trump weasels "clowns" (if any ferret lovers are out there, I'm sorry to offend your pet weasel), unless it's clear that I'm referring to the class of clowns one finds in a Stephen King novel.
Actually, I want my clowns to be the ones like Red Skelton painted, or like Emmet Kelly, ones with soul as well as the ability to make me laugh. If I think about them, they are indeed the opposite of the horror movie monsters that look like clowns.
I just learned (via the inestimable rabbit hole otherwise known as Wikipedia) that there is in fact an Emmet Kelly Museum in Sedan, Kansas, which includes among significant Emmet Kelly memorabilia, "the world's largest collection of commemorative Jim Beam bottles."
At 1500 bottles, I am inclined to wager that it is even larger than the one that is currently in the arsenal of our erstwhile (?) inebriated Secretary of Defense.
It's hard not to be offended, be one man or beast, if one is used as a metaphor for Donald Trump or any of his associates. I wrote a remark comparing all the Trump officials involved in this Signal chat debacle to kindergarteners trying to do college level work, then apologized for being unfair to the kindergarteners.
I just read Charlie Sykes's column from March 19, "Idiots with Flamethrowers" in which he makes the important observation that clowns, really, are not the best characters to represent the vile, very unfunny activities of the Trump administration.
To summarize his point, we need clowns to make us happy and laugh, especially in times like these where one's natural tendency is to scream and weep and pull the covers over oneself in bed and hope that the latest "Breaking News" banner is really just a nightmare -- a frightening dream that we can wake up from when the daylight streams through our windows.
Sadly, no, the headlines and copy are not nightmares, they are the world that we must live in, and from now on, I'm going to refrain from calling the Trump weasels "clowns" (if any ferret lovers are out there, I'm sorry to offend your pet weasel), unless it's clear that I'm referring to the class of clowns one finds in a Stephen King novel.
Actually, I want my clowns to be the ones like Red Skelton painted, or like Emmet Kelly, ones with soul as well as the ability to make me laugh. If I think about them, they are indeed the opposite of the horror movie monsters that look like clowns.
I just learned (via the inestimable rabbit hole otherwise known as Wikipedia) that there is in fact an Emmet Kelly Museum in Sedan, Kansas, which includes among significant Emmet Kelly memorabilia, "the world's largest collection of commemorative Jim Beam bottles."
At 1500 bottles, I am inclined to wager that it is even larger than the one that is currently in the arsenal of our erstwhile (?) inebriated Secretary of Defense.
RE: offending pet weasels
It's hard not to be offended, be one man or beast, if one is used as a metaphor for Donald Trump or any of his associates. I wrote a remark comparing all the Trump officials involved in this Signal chat debacle to kindergarteners trying to do college level work, then apologized for being unfair to the kindergarteners.
Nice work above, though.