Quotation of the Day

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH “’I know why I get bad treatment in the New York Times. It’s because it’s owned by Mexico. I don’t know if you know, a rich guy in Mexico actually has power at the New York Times. I wonder why they don’t like us. You know, I just wonder.’” “Trump was…

Visual Metaphor of the Day

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH When deer hunters in Matador, Texas, looked under their deer blind, they found 26 rattlesnakes: Source: http://www.wideopencountry.com/texas-hunters-find-rattlesnake-surprise-blind/.  

Ann Coulter's Terrible New Trump Book

BY JOHN K. WILSON Today, Ann Coulter published her latest book, sure to be another best-seller: In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome. I know, the very stupid subtitle makes no sense, in Latin or English, because Coulter hates immigrants and thinks America is being destroyed by too much “pluribus.” Maybe her publisher thought “Unum…

Quotation of the Day

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH “Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist  and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as…

Trump on Citizen Kane

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This is from an article in the series The Trump Files being published online by Mother Jones: “Donald Trump’s favorite movie is Citizen Kane, the 1941 film about a publishing tycoon mogul who surrounds himself with material luxury but struggles to find happiness. ‘I loved Orson Welles,’ Trump told Bloomberg‘s Timothy O’Brien. ‘He was…

The New Oprah?

BY MARTIN KICH The White House has released the books on President Obama’s “Summer Reading List”; Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald Seveneves by Neal Stephenson None of the books are explicitly being recommended by the President, but…

We May Be Better Off Not Knowing the Details

BY MARTIN KICH This item was posted to our faculty listserve yesterday: “A pair of navy blue men’s dress slacks were found outside between Rike and Allyn halls. If you are missing them, please email me.” The item about the lost men’s slacks reminded me that about 30 years ago, I wrote a poem about…

More Presidential Campaign Usage Policing

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This from CNN: “After Hillary Clinton’s controversy over her private email use, running mate Tim Kaine told NBC’s Chuck Todd on Meet the Press that the two would be ‘real transparent’ in the White House. ‘She said it was a mistake,’ Kaine said. ‘I am not presumptuous enough to start thinking about how I’m going…