Cross Town Thoughts
Hillary’s new campaign ad. Send money and literally get a pink (seriously) plastic card that says Woman Card. Broken record alert! Why don’t they get how insulting this is to treat women as a monolithic group who all think the same way? She indicts Donald for playing the “Trump Card”. Which means anti-women. Despite the fact that he is an equal opportunity offender.
Yes. He does accuse Hillary of only having that one card. Game on. Cut the cards and deal.
Bon weekend.
Trump’s Foreign Policy Analysis. We don’t get no respect. Anywhere. By anyone around the world. His vision is an expansion of his personal view of fairness and respect. Leaders must greet Air Force One at the airport. The President has to know the outcome of a deal before he embarks on a trip to a foreign country to negotiate. Be prepared to walk away from the table. If allies don’t pay for our protection, we will pull out our troops and close our military bases. In Germany. Korea. Japan. Wherever.
Have to say. Trump sounded more like Rodney Dangerfield meets Ronald Reagan. The world has to be nice to us financially thereby proving respect. Different.
Maybe I’m just like my father too bold. “When Doves Cry” – Prince.
More sad than Prince’s untimely demise. The tragic death of an icon who is still alive. Tiger Woods. ESPN writer reveals a tale that didn’t hit the headlines. The self-sabotage of a champion who never got fulfillment from the sport of golf. So he sought solace in trying to fulfill his father’s dream. Ending up emulating his flaws as well.
Far from the fairways and greens Tiger’s world turned to a driven need to become a Navy SEAL. His fame gave him access to their grueling training camps which destroyed his body. The one he needed to continue to compete and win with in his other life. Wright Thompson does a masterful telling of the secret suffering that we as fans never could have guessed was going on in this complicated stunted man-boy. A must read.
There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile. Who called everyone and everything else crooked. He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile. And spent it sparingly. Then cried when the crooked people bested him at his own game.
Trump has deemed the Republican Party’s nominating rules rigged and crooked. He has dubbed his Democratic rival Crooked Hillary. It’s a good neutral non-gender specific adjective which everyone can relate to. And keeps the media out of his own crooked house.
-Apologies to Mother Goose.
Rainy Monday on Central Park West. Schools closed up North. Hampton. Snow.
Mermaid Inn has moved. Expanded. Little necks still sweet. Mussels too. Kept its ambience and character. Politics seems so remote all of a sudden. Furniture deliveries trump everything.
Chris Matthews conducted the best interview with El Trumpo. Rapid-fire. Two street fighters sparring tête-à-tête. Chris the only one who’s gotten the best of The Donald. Has El Trumpo finally met his Waterloo? Stumped and trumped too often of late. Winging it. Swinging and missing it. Will he find a way to extricate himself from humiliating defeat. We’ll see.
Does Trump really want to be President? Never his intent.
Misandry is accepted. Misogyny is dissed. Trump the equal opportunity insulter is regularly panned for his attacks on women. Despite his calling guys sweaty, short, fat, stupid. Get it coming from the left. They push the war on women to raise money and gain votes. But. Don’t feminists realize the disservice they do to themselves by bunching up in vivid victimhood?
Monolithic labels demean every group. David Brooks’ column takes that misguided route.
Happy Easter from Central Park Lake!
Turtle neighbors live just across the street.
We’re back!!!! NYC
Again. Brothers at the center of terrorist attack. This time Belgium. It started with the Tsarnaev sibs of the Boston Marathon massacre. The Chechen Brothers KaramazOff. Disaffected young men ostracized and marginalized in their adopted or native land. Attracted by a global gang of thugs to mount revenge in the name of religion but with no real devotion to it.
So. It we take Cruz and Trump to their logical conclusions. Arrest all swarthy young brothers. Just to be safe.
President F.U. is back. So is Claire. House of Cards. Season 4. Shockers galore. Pretty good through 7 episodes. Then. Writers took a vacation at the end. Out-of-character risks. Gratuitous contrivances. Creepy breakfast twist. Melodramatic Homeland ripoff. Fear is good.
Be very afraid, Frank. Get a food taster if you win. Veepy wife-in-waiting. President C.U.
Side Trek . NYC 