I’ve been blogging for going on twenty years. I have a few tricks up my sleeve. Does that make me Shecky the Trickster? Discuss amongst yourselves.
A good title is a terrible thing to waste is one of my maxims as a blogger. That maxim, motto or whatever is in force today. This is my fifth variation on the Christmas Eve theme. Here’s how I opened on this day in 2018:
No politics from me today. No insights about Christmas Eve either. I like the title since it evokes All About Eve, which was more about Margot Channing now that I think about it. It’s not about the 2012 teevee movie All About Christmas Eve either. That’s a good thing since I just heard of it. I’m not big on Lifetime or Hallmark holiday movies. They’re fruitcake for the eyes.”
As you may have noticed, I’m a prolific writer so sometimes I forget even the best lines. How could I forget fruitcake for the eyes?
Yesterday was a surprisingly big news day, so I have a few thoughts about what happened after I published Shecky’s Quick Hitters in the morning.
We begin with one of the biggest assholes in American politics, Matt Gaetz. The House Ethics Committee report leaked yesterday. The bottom line is that Matt Gaetz is not just an exponent of bro culture, he’s its personification.
Shorter Adrastos: Gaetz is a gross pig.
My report on report season continues with the Senate’s take on Supreme Court ethics or lack thereof. Corrupt Clarence claimed to have been converted to transparency after the flood of bad pub from ProPublica, but the report shows otherwise. There were more unreported trips on Harlan Crow’s dime. The report confirmed Clarence’s status as the biggest schnorrer since Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came To Dinner.
Finally, President Biden granted clemency to all but three defendants on federal death row. It’s an excellent use of the pardon power as opposed to the Trump pardons discussed in 2020’s All About Christmas Eve Pardons.
Like Joe Biden, I believe in justice tempered with mercy.
Merry Christmas.
The last word goes to Don Covay: