Primary elections in several locales today. Between gerrymandering in many locales--plus the dynamics of majority bloc vote fragmentation in California, which could lead to the bizarre result or two combined minority candidates being nominated--popular will may not be expressed.

Requirements of a successful legal prosecution: Finger points. Point fingers. These days, add to that the stipulation that people prosecuted do not receive (1) pardons, (2) "reparations" from a slush fund.

Repost the riposte to begin the beguine.

I consider Bluesky the great kibititorium of our discursive public square. A place to nurture the yeasty Habermasian hootenanny we seek. Which sometimes devolves down to Orwell that ends will. In postings, I always try to drop the quick, sly faux pas that jumps over the lazy dogma.

Was everyone else as disgusted with Pam Bondi's refusal to take answerability for not releasing the Epstein Files at the close door inquiry Friday? Weaselocracy. Dereliction of duty. Displacement of assigned tasks onto others. Some mothers will raise their daughters to be like Pam Bondi.

Trump's scowling visage on the proposed "$250 bill"? I already have toilet paper. A living person on U.S. currency? A sitting president on U.S. currency? A modest proposal: Put his face on the $3 bill.

I recommend no one try to become a fiction writer. You cannot keep up with the increasingly surreal reality. Surreal? S'right. Dali is never going away again.

Today's cartoon by Mike Luckovich:

If Nigel Farage's Reform party wins the British parliament, life in the nation will be, to paraphrase Hobbes, solitary, poor, nasty, British and short.

Trump's medical exam at Walter Reed revealed a chronic degenerative vascular disease. Not as chronic nor degenerative as the disease in our body politic.

Contempt of Congress. Pure. Simple. Whole. Complete. Clear. Present.

Trump's criticism of Colbert? Colbert spoofed Trump's wag the dog wars. Trump decided to dog the wag. Petulant, thin-skinned, vindictive, impulsive little cosplay Mussolini

"Owed" to January 6 and the Pardon/"Reparations" Aftermath a Future in Which More Violence to Achieve Political Ends Will be Used Given Incentives Promised: Ruses were read Violence was cued Succor was sought The future is screwed!

Goodman in 2026. Svelt. Goodman keeps popping up in best pictures. And often plays studio moguls.

If Trump can set up an unconstitutional [14th Amend. Sect. 4] slush fund to pay "reparations" to Jan 6 goons/thugs for their "persecution' for their violent acts, might he also urge reparations for the rapists in the Epstein Files? For their "persecution" by a "weaponized" legal system? Grok.

The most I can say about Trump's plan to pay "reparations" for the thugs and goons of January 6 who tried to stop the certification of a duly certified election--and to overturn our very vote and public will is: Ruses were read Violence was cued Succor was sought The future? We're screwed!

Thought experiment: Imagine trying to sell a fiction book to a book editor about a President not only pardoning, but giving "reparations" to seditious, violent people who tried to subvert the integrity of a duly certified election. And popular will itself. You'd be laughed out of the office.

As for each of my postings, thank you for your attention to this mutter.

I agree with Erwin Chemerinsky. Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. The U.S. Constitution, as a manual of stagecraft for our society's stage play, has so many loopholes, Catch-22 situations that is one of the best laid eggs of mise en scene.

Many apply to Trump the acronym TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out. How about TOFU: Trump Ordinarily . . . well, you know.

Resonator.

We the People must stop this, the madness. Now.

.Justice squared. Closure. A feeling of right. Peace of mind. Freedom from misalignment.

Latin translation o' day: Quod sequitur ex priori inexorabiliter fluit. What follows, flows inexorably from the prior. In Jersey speak: Badda-bing, badda-boom.

Never lose your appetite for the truth!

Our current society? Surreal? S'right! Dali is never going away again.

Y'all know what to do with this one...😎

Mango?

Conflicts of interest Clear. Present. Whole. Complete. Pure. Simple.

Disbarment of John Eastman. Eastman on Jan. 6: Ruses were read, violence was cued.

The disbarment of John Eastman? Ruses were read, violence was cued.

Proteanism? Memento morphie.

Proteanism? Memento morphie.

Proteansim? Memento morhpie.

Proteanism? Memento morphie.

Should be part of his next test.

The defeat of Orban in Hungary? Czardas a new course.

Seinfeld moments: The Cosmo Kramer Moment: "Whoa, buddy! You're in TROUBLE!!" The Jerry Seinfeld Moment: "Actually, I think this is the PERFECT time to panic." The George Costanza Moment: "You have to NEGOTIATE!!" "George, you just negotiated a WORSE deal than the one we had before."

Harpy days are here again.

I still await some mature adult to walk to a podium at some very public place, then intone Simon Cowellishly, "This. Will. Stop." Anyone?

Akin to the status of the obvious winner, that's a no-brainer.

Know things? Owe things.

Trump's childish, classless statement about the death of Robert Mueller? Liars and tyrants and boors--oh my!

What is the sound of one quag miring?

t austerity in the pursuit of macro expansion. Aka "expansionary austerity". I once published a letter in the Times based on an article by Paul Krugman slamming the very concept of expansionary austerity. I wrote The reins on Keynes constrain sustaining gains.

Friday, I submitted a letter to the NY Times concerning Trump's warped aesthetic in response to an article about the similarities of Trump's kitsch and Mussolini's.

I submitted a letter the the NY Times today on the societal impacts of the telephone and cellphones. I don't know if the letter will "see ink" in the Times.

Sat. 03/07 is the Stand Up for Science Rallies Nationwide. Some slogans for signs: RFK Jr.? Hackery, quackery schlock The mouth ran off the crock! Lynsenkoism, To be precise Always begins with Lies and lice Science? Defend, Don't Defund Cuts to Sci? Breach of the Social Contract of Modernity