Trump field office head in Jefferson Co. Colorado allows her 12 year old son to help, giving him "most of the responsibility", saying it's a good educational opportunity for him. I think the kid appeared on Sam Bee show's when they were doing interviews at the RNC.
Colbert's sketch about Trump's senior advisor being a…

Better Late than Never: Ignorant, Boorish Americans, Celebrity Edition?

The memoir itself is astonishing on how great of an injustice Rushdie (not to mention other workers on the book and the concept of free expression_ went through; you find yourself getting furious that Western governments, media, and other writers—who should have stood in firm solidarity with him defending art, speech…

Thanks. Fair warning though: if you've never read Rushdie, he can be a bit dense, with language, allusions, jokes, how people speak in other tongues; Christoper Hitchens in a C-Span show after the fatwa called him a brilliant writer of South Asian voices. So if the first few pages seem unreadable, stick with it and it…

I don't see the problem? If he had shot them that would be one thing, but wouldn't American police also draw their guns? I assume that since they were drunk they got into a verbal fight with the security guard and then he pulled his gun. How else would he react if they broke down his boss's door? (I also haven't been…

I'm proud I didn't watch bupkis this time around. I hear NBC really screwed up their coverage, and even went soft on a thug, with the exception of a weatherman.

First time not really playing, since I don't think you take "Everything?" as a valid pick. But all the network shows look so dire, I do want to say everything.

NYT ran an investigation on his debts and found out his various companies and partnerships owe 650 million dollars, about twice what he's publicly filed. Plus probably a lot more, honestly. So his attacks on Pres. Obama for ballooning the debt might be, just might be the pot calling the kettle orange.

Salman Rushdie:

I better funky on outta here!

You're right; I just couldn't help thinking that. It's not like they destroyed the music of a female band who spoke out against a war.

Missing entertainment screenings, funny enough, will be the spur that allows us to invent time travel. Then we can go back to all the Big Lebowski festivals and Axl Rose shows we missed, though he won't be there.

Christopher Walken, actually magical, will eventually turn all of the staff into dogs and cats.

Love Bruce. In part for the same reason many Europeans do (me being a first-generation American): his limning of and moral outrage at some of America's problems; my preferred idea of art being it tackles the real world.

I used to watch it, but the last two—nope. But I'm not a sports guy anyway.

I'm reading Rushdie's Joseph Anton, his excellent, moving memoir of being suddenly the victim of a worldwide witch hunt (when a false conclusion spread rapidly around the globe without anyone bothering to find out its veracity), with one scary scene being a book burning of The Satanic Verses done in London before the…

There have been those intellectual shows, but so much attention and money is paid to sports. Not that that's a bad thing, but we do enable these athletes stupidity to a degree when we give them millions to train a full time job's hours, and more; so of course they would do easy, hedonistic things on their leisure time…

I also don't like crying babies, sanity, and you non-orange bastards.

I didn't know that was Stewart's idea. Wilmore said this in the other day's Charlie Rose interview. The original idea was to have the show be nothing but panel, but Wilmore and/or his staff felt that he needed to guide the audience with his voice first, tell them what he thought about their subjects, and so the panel…

No, I don't disagree with Lochte being an idiot, and an entitled, criminal brat. I'm just trying to make a general cultural comment about how we value athletes vs. smart people, based off the mentions of Lochte being an idiot in recent articles. Also floating the idea of an Intellectual Olympics and changing our…