Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, December 26, 2025

Alexandra Petri Is A National Treasure

 I hope at some point, her trip to the Kennedy Center is to pick up her Twain Award. Still, this will do for now. It is not actually easy to be both funny and spot on with your political satire, but what she pulls off is a brilliant sketch of Trump's inherent thirstiness and his being perpetually mired in the '70s and '80s.

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