Clown Takedown
One of the fun aspects of being my age is that I was fully coherent when Richard Nixon met his karmic retribution for being a pathetic public liar before, during and after Watergate. Like Donald Trump today, he had his team of enablers, though unlike today, there was a free press for him to contend with.
The same will happen to Trump. He will be taken down differently, but he will be taken down.
The rise of Trump, the consummate con artist, is a complete breakdown of American society. For those whose personal fortunes will be erased by the tariffs and whatever other stupid ideas the president comes up with, you have my sympathy but not my respect.
There are only so many bright, shining lies, small, medium and large, that we can bear.
Craig J. Corsini
San Rafael
Call of Cthulhu
“He thought of the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose center sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demoniac flute held in nameless paws.”
That’s a quote from a short story that H. P. Lovecraft wrote years ago. Or maybe you thought I was talking about Donald Trump?
David Madgalene
Windsor
Shrinky Dinks
Guys, it’s not just because I’m old and my eyesight ain’t what it used to be, but reading (or trying) to read a scrunched-down and overpopulated “This Modern World” is extremely frustrating. When a black band at the top of an intro panel soaks up the white lettering like a sponge, and the clunky boldface type in the speech balloons from multiple characters smushes together, my (our?) eyes ask, “What did they say?”
Or in the words of my 31-year-old neighbor, whom I asked to translate, “God, this is so damn stupid.”
Bob Canning
Petaluma
