No. CVIX: The Trump-penny (Soap) Opera

If commander-in-chief were...well..."debriefed",

who would breathe a sigh of relief?

We'd get the Veep who is also a creep.

(A different kind, but...never mind.)

Good grief! It beggars belief.

No. CVIII: Clean Up Aisle 6!

COSMOS:

Is a sixth mass extinction already happening?

While new research suggests that a sixth mass extinction is underway and even more severe than was previously thought, other scientists say that alarmism won’t help conservation efforts.

Climate warming?

Bees not swarming?

Disaster brewing?

Is this of our doing?

There is no vacation

from annihilation.

Nothing distinct

about going extinct.

Don't make no diff, 
awake or nappin'.

Whatever will happen, 
is going to happen.

No. CVII: Something Up His Sleeve?

Guardian:
Republican dress code is straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale

The party is already making women’s lives miserable with its healthcare bill – now it’s kicking them out of the speaker’s lobby for baring their arms. In her weekly advice column, our style expert asks what’s next in this brave new world? (Click)

Washington Examiner:
Guardian reporter completely botches article blaming Paul Ryan for the dress code in the House

The dress code, which applies to the Speaker's lobby only, is not new, nor was it crafted by GOP lawmakers....The only reason anyone is talking about the code now is because Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., is House Speaker and because members of the press who are not from Washington, D.C., apparently don't know a damn thing about Congress. (Click)

No need to panic, no call for alarm,

if Puritan Ryan fears a woman's bare arm.

How, after all, can a guy legislate

with female flesh (as it were) "on his plate".

Alt-Right rebuttal to Guardian thesis is

a load of crap which (deliberately?) misses

the point (if you are paying attention)

which is that GOP has no intention

of regarding anything female without condescension.

No. CVI: "Related" Stories?

WSJ: Trump Jr. Met Russian Lawyer Who Claimed to Have Information on Hillary Clinton (paywall)

In a statement Sunday, Donald Trump Jr. said he didn’t know the lawyer’s name before the meeting, and said they were set up by an “acquaintance” from the 2013 Miss Universe pageant.

NASA: 2017 Total Eclipse Of The Sun

On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun.

As mansplain of Junior's Moscow hook-up unzips

could we be facing (finally) the Trumpocolypse?

Will Daddy have NASA make this son eclipse?

Mr. Trump jr., one question?

I don't mean to be cute,

but when you say "acquaintance" 

do you mean prostitute?

(I know, I know...it was all for fun

and after all, like father, like son?)

No. CV: Hamburger Helper?

Guardian: Australian journalist demolishes Trump at G20: 'biggest threat to the west'

Reporter Chris Uhlmann’s commentary tearing into American president – a man with ‘no desire and no capacity to lead the world’ – reverberates to Washington

Vladimir said, “I did not hack.”

Donnie agreed and that made it “fact”.

(BUT taking the word of a lying dictator...

just how does that make America greater?)

When Donnie got up — to go make a tweet? —

Princess Ivanka plopped down in his seat.

The eyes of nineteen world leaders rolled.

Take your daughter to work day? They'd not been told.

Climate may change but Trump will not care,

so long as it has no affect on his hair.

Conniving, deceitful and on the make,

he loves being "genuine". (Which proves he's fake.)

What is it about his garish gold magic?

It would be comic. (If it weren't tragic.)

It is not as if no one were aware.

The Emperor is naked. Does anyone care?

As yet we see few signs of panic

from the bridge of the manic S.S. Trumptanic,

sailing on from the city of Hamburg

uncertain whether it's ship or it's iceberg.