Mug Shot Monday

Pretty hot if you can look past his staging his own stabbing to pretend he was targeted for "looking like a neo-Nazi."

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

If nothing else, the events in Charlottesville have reminded us all who the real victims of oppression are ... 

It's like you can't do anything racist and horrible without being called out on it anymore ...

"STOP OPPRESSING ME!"

Bernin' Love

What did Tina Fey do?

"Something that pissed off the sort of people who are more concerned about fighting fellow Democrats than Nazis." #FacebookScene

The New Yorker Takes Wind Out of Trump's Sails

Ouch. Read what a white supremacist told a writer for the venerable magazine after Trump was elected HERE.

Cash Family 'Sickened' by Neo-Nazi's Johnny Cash T-Shirt

Rosanne Cash is an outspoken liberal. So naturally her father's worst fans love to lecture her on what he would think of her beliefs -- because who knows what her father felt better than total strangers.

Normally Rose will ignore or point out how little these people actually knew about her dad. But when one of the Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville was photographed wearing a Johnny Cash shirt, the entire Cash brood decided they had to speak out. And speak out they did.

From HERE.

Page 1 Roundup (08/17)

The Daily News: Trump doesn't know Heather Heyer's name. But he is quick to point out that the woman's distraught mother praised his speech about the terrorist attack that took her daughter's life

The New York Post: The new series about the disappearance of Natalee Holloway got the most coincidental promo when investigators found human remains in Aruba, not far from where the young woman was last seen

Ad I saw in subway yesterday

The New York Times: Trump Comments on Race Open Breach With C.E.O.s, Military and G.O.P.

The Wall Street Journal: Gown Girl: How a Miami Bankruptcy Lawyer Bailed Out Hundreds of Brides

Trump Doubles Down on Initial Charlottesville Response

Donald Trump is the dumbest man I have ever had the misfortune to know about. "Alt-left" isn't a thing. But if it means being against Nazis and wanting health-care for all, then I guess I'm a "member."

I guess the inability to think critically comes with the low IQ. 

Alt Wrong

That Trump retweeted an alt right leader diminishing the outrage over Charlottesville might be his lowest moment yet -- and there is so much competition. 

There is truly no hope for this country. 

Page 1 Roundup (08/14)

The Daily News: James Fields Jr.’s high school teacher claims he was ‘infatuated with the Nazis’ years before Charlottesville clashes

The New York Post: Woman killed in Virginia rally was a born do-gooder, says mother

The New York Times: Trump, Bowing to Pressure, Rebukes White Supremacists

The Wall Street Journal: Did the CEO Actually Get Fired? There’s a Decoder for That

Ain't That Peculiar?

This e-mail from a former colleague was too great not to share:

I have been reading William Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," one of the best and earliest eyewitness histories of Nazi Germany. Although it is a superbly researched book, Shirer is most definitely a homophobe. There are perhaps four or five ridiculous statements on homosexuality in his enormous 1,400 page book, which I think is lamentable but not enough to prevent me from admiring the superb quality of the rest of the work. 

This passage, though, made me laugh and think of you: 

Many of [the S.A.'s] top leaders, beginning with its chief, Roehm, were notorious homosexual perverts. Lieutenant Edmund Heines, who led the Munich S.A., was not only a homosexual but a convicted murderer. These two and dozens of others quarreled and feuded as only men of unnatural sexual inclinations, with their peculiar jealousies, can. 

As my friend Damien paraphrased, "Not only was he a convicted killer, he also ate waaaaaaay too much ice cream." I thought you'd particularly like the unusual construction of the last sentence. 

Say hi to people at {REDACTED] for me!

Get yours HERE.