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People are often easy to fool. Take some horrible plonk, put it in a bottle from Chateau Mouton Rothschild , and see if it doesn't taste really special to your guests who think they know something about wine. Same for this sort of stuff, actually. It's wrong in a lot of ways, but when it is presente...

Alison, I assume that you are familiar with the term "the people of the Book," when that means Jews, Christians, and Muslims as one community who share a belief in one Supreme Being, whether he's known as Jahweh, the Holy Trinity, or Allah. If the estimable Dr. Tanay wanted to unload in th...

There you are wrong, Carptoonian. When you are being fed something from a fake source, that should color your view of whatever that is. Why should the real author need to use the estimable Dr. Tanay as the source for this stuff? That is because the article is a weak pastiche crammed with faulty logi...

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Here we go again! There is nothing illegal about spilling deep secrets to the Russkis, given that you are the President, no. Trump could have taken a whizz all over the Oval Office carpet, with TASS snapping pictures, if he had wanted to, when that would not have been illegal. (I just checked the Co...

As to that article: It is not, as claimed, a German's views on Islam, if by "a German" we mean the real Dr. Emanuel Tanay, since he never was a German. This is what is claimed about the author: The author of this email is Dr Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist. A ma...

That article is a fake, Alison. Dr Tanay, not "Tanya," was born in 1928 in Lithuania to a Jewish dentist father. There's no way that a Jewish teenager (not a German aristocrat at all) in Nazi Germany was going to own any factories, is there? There's a bug here. I wrote something in much mo...

When John emerges from his Secret Room to view the smoking ruin that was New Zealand he's going to have to carve his whinges (about the USA not coming to the aid of New Zealand, this time) into the shell of a fresh coconut, because the North Koreans will have shut down his internet server. Good luck...

Your post appeared. Do you see #1287? Ben, this guy is just not fit for the job. Blabbing secrets to the Russians in the Oval Office ? Allowing a reporter from TASS into the Oval Office while barring US reporters? Ben, that is not Trump's Oval Office; it belongs to the American People, and he needs ...

Crazy as it seems, a survey of "Republican voters" (no mention of how many or where from) found that most of them do not believe that Trump sacked Comey because of the "Russia thing," even though Trump came right out and said that was his reason! They have confidence in Trump, bl...

I do not understand why svhar put this thing up, and for me. Is this the sort of flying you do, svhar? Put your cards on the table, International Man of Mystery. I told you some of what I flew, and where (when it had nothing to do with this BS). My kind of flying is very like work , actually; it's s...

Caco, attack Ben if you must, but if you go after his Mr. Snuffles then svhar is going to be very, very upset with you! Truly, the level of professional airmanship on display there ... who could make that sort of thing up? The teddy-bear was the maraschino cherry poised atop the whipped cream, takin...

About 45 years ago I used to go to the Red Fox Tavern in Bethesda. A featured group was often The Seldom Scene, with "Through the Bottom of the Glass" (m), but they also did a little number called "Bring Dick Nixon Back Again." That one had to do with Gerald Ford, since "He'...

Clear away all those half-full beer glasses and set up a fresh round: Trump leaked classified information to the Russians in the Oval Office! Beat that one! Most Bach connoisseurs only know of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, W.F. Bach, and W.F.E Bach when it comes to music. There was also P.D.Q. Bach, thoug...

Thanks, svhar. So this is what being a pilot in Africa really is like ... I would never have been able to make that up.

Was that your teddy-bear on the glareshield?

I show reverence for Katie Hopkins simply by referring to her, do I? Okay, if you both say so. We'll tell our Lar familiaris to shove over a bit and put Katie's little wax statuette in there with him, pins and all. The Ibeji still get pride of place though, up above the door leading from the vestibu...

Magnus, why would you pepper me with complaints about not being told who Katie Hopkins is after I had merely mentioned her in passing? It makes more sense to just copy the name and then Google it, saving everyone much trouble, doesn't it? Unless Carptoonian really is suffering from early-onset Alzhe...

One of Trump's people is experiencing a bit of blow-back after posting a shot of his grown daughter in lingerie: m The odd thing is this fellow stating that his daughter is "channeling her Edie Sedgwick." Edie Sedgwick was one of the first of those Warhol acolytes who was "famous for ...

I self-identify as a nerd, and we nerds also have definite tastes in music, when it's not all Bach cantatas and Beethoven sonatas. There is also Benny Bell: m Don't overdo it, ob, but a little of this sort of thing once in a while will keep those adult daughters from thinking that U2 is the last wor...

Carptoonian, that's another thing: denial. Believe me, you might need professional help. This business of walking across the room to the light switch and then wondering, "What am I doing here, and who is Katie Hopkins?" That's not normal, no matter what you want to tell yourself. I must ap...