The Florida governor is just another Italian fascist — The Florida governor always reminded me of someone, but I couldn’t quite remember who. When I found out the Florida Fuhrer is of Italian descent it was suddenly clear. Il Duce Due reminded me of Il Duce Una. I also discovered Mussolini was even shorter than the 5'9" governor, but I could not find a reference to Il Duce Una wearing high heels to make him look taller like DeFascist does.

Florida’s Own Wicked Witch of the West — Little by little, bit by bit, national attention takes aim at Florida’s First Lady, Casey DeSantis. OCD Ron’s wife is ‘fair game,’ ever since the governor and much of the media have revealed the influence Casey DeSantis exerts on her husband. Casey dresses like an also-ran Flori-Duh beauty queen attempting…

. . .is enough to ban books in Manatee County, Florida — At least a decade ago, maybe two — back when the Internet was fun — a YouTube video made the rounds. The video recorded the reaction of a lion encountering the two guys who raised him from a cub in London. …

“Donald Trump’s trial for allegedly conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election may hinge on a long-debated aspect of the former president’s mind-set: How much, or if, he believes his own false claims,” report by The Washington Post. — I believe . . . “I came to D.C. with the intent of helping people I believed were in dire need of assistance,” Maddison Welch wrote in a letter to the judge. On January 4, 2016, the self-deputized North Carolina MAGA moron shot up a Washington DC pizza joint, because he believed Comet Ping Pong Pizza…

July 18, 2005 — Westmoreland was convinced that the Vietnamese communists could be destroyed by fighting a war of attrition that, theoretically, would render the North Vietnamese Army unable to fight. — Wikipedia Westmoreland’s “war of attrition” worked . . . for the Viet Cong. …

July 6, 2009 — McNamara’s War In the Kennedy administration, McNamara was closely allied in debates in the cabinet with Dean Rusk, the Secretary of State, with both favoring greater American support for South Vietnam. In May 1962, McNamara paid his first visit to South Vietnam, where he told the press “every quantitative measurement…shows…

John Durham and Jack Smith — There may not be two more striking opposites than Billy-Bob Barr’s running dog, John Durham, and Merrick Garland’s bandog, Jack Smith. John Durham’s specialty was whitewashing and obstructing investigations into the CIA’s use of torture under the Bush administration. His preferred weapon was classification. First he investigated the destruction of…

The odds always favor the house — All federal prosecutors maintain a ridiculously high conviction rate by simply threatening a defendant with a long prison sentence if a jury trial results in a conviction. In fact, less than 2% of federal prosecutions go to trial. …

Mortuis nihil nisi bonum is not applicable — Pat Robertson’s obituary was just slightly less welcome than reading a Henry Kissinger obit, but I’m still here and the old bigot is not. Here’s hoping June, 2023, might be a double header. I never spend a lot of time writing Death Day Celebration (DDC) stories, but Robertson is one…