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CANDIDATES ANONYMOUS (a short screenplay about a very long campaign) By Mollie Fermaglich FADE IN: INT. – Basement of a Washington D.C. church – Evening Modest, poorly lit large space. A tall coffee urn sits on a long aluminum table on one side of th... More »
The White House asked the Navy to hide a destroyer named after Senator John McCain in order to avoid having the ship appear in photographs taken while President Trump was visiting Japan. . . . White House aides . . . confirmed the request was made but said tha... More »
Hillary Clinton Yes, Trump could be right. I do have a few Russian connections; dinner twice at the Russian Tea Room before it closed in 2012, and as I recall, we had Beef Stroganoff and Chicken Kiev, though I don’t remember ordering caviar or borscht, or ... More »
Professor Sondra Lear, a feminist science fiction scholar par excellence, was sobbing in her State University of New York at Greenwich Village office. The fact that Trump was really the President of the United States devastated her. Although she had experience... More »
For those of you who just couldn’t take it anymore and shut off the news last spring, let me commend you – and briefly summarize what has happened in the interim. Hillary won (of course), and just four weeks ago, she gave a very gracious, unifying inaugura... More »
While performing my janitorial duties in the basement of a biweekly newspaper that once wrote about music, I knocked over a box labeled “M.W.” An ancient fax machine tumbled out. My god, could I have stumbled onto the Mojo Wire, the apparatus Hunter S.... More »
By Paul Mortenson 6 November 2016 Take this brief questionnaire to find out. Caution: answers to all question choices are incorrect. Donald Trump Section If Donald Trump is elected President, do you plan to seek refuge in a monastery or convent move to Tierra ... More »
By Dan Geddes NEW YORK – After a week of new allegations of Donald Trump’s past sexual predations, campaign spokesman Dirk Digger stated that Mr. Trump would not commit sexual assault “before, during or after” his final Presidential debate with Hillary... More »
By Dan Geddes Instructions The U.S. Congress requests that all candidates for U.S. President take the following the ethics test. Dear Candidate: For each question, please select the choice that best matches your beliefs. 1. Which term best describes your ethi... More »
Like most presidential wannabes, Hillary will need a campaign song. JFK had “High Hopes, “ FDR, “Happy Days Are Here Again,” But, sadly, her handlers have their hands full deflecting, avoiding and denying, so they might not have time for composing. Fol... More »
I think it started in 1992 with her line about not standing by her man, an allusion to that notoriously blasphemous song “Stand by Your Man” by that America-hating country singer Tammy Wynette. Because everyone knows that attacking the most popular... More »
(From the American Idol Archives) by Fred Russell Ryan: Good evening, America. Three contestants. Three dreams. Three journeys. You will vote. You will decide. You’ll hear them tonight singing their hearts out. Each of our contestants will be given his c... More »