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¡Qué bola!

El Presidente Obama touches down in Cuba. CEO’s in tow. Las Capitalistas invade the last bastion of La Revolución. La lluvia. Las lágrimas de Fidel. Castro regime sheds its last tears. What will it mean. Trade-offs. Rights vs. redistribution. Mojitos. Cigarros. Starbucks. Starwood.

90 miles north back in The States. Bernie Sanders fills stadiums as a Socialist. A new generation of Americans ready to embrace income equality. Al revés. Where is Elián González these days? What would José Martí say?

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Trump L’œil

Trick of the eye. Chicanery. Snake oil anyone? His followers rally. Media and Republicans dally. Hillary is the only one who can reveal this Trump l’œil. Will she?

House of Cards 4. Frank Underwood. Makes Trump look like a saint. Or. Maybe not. Nancy Reagan could have given Claire a run for her money. Will fiction become fact?

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Nice Fishes

Pisces wishes. Come true. Celebrated a new CPW venue. Good year for fishes. Flatiron Gramercy Tavern striped bass. Fab. UWS Crave Fishbar fewer stars. DUMBO hipster cool SuperFine bar. Fun with family. All.

Recent Oscar-winner Mark Rylance in St. Ann’s Warehouse Nice Fish. Minnesota ice fishing meets absurdiste treat. Missed the Spielberg’s by a night or two. They also approved.

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Keeping Up With the Trumps

Kardashians move over. It’s now The Trumps. Donald doing dick jokes at the debate. What do we expect with Cialis and Viagra commercials 24/7. We’re numbing down. Little Marco a perfect foil. Protesters at rallies a key part of the act. PGA playing at his Doral.

Current wife Melania on every channel prime time. Leggy beauty with gilted nouveau riche rooms in the background. Ex-wife Marla will be Dancing With the Stars. Daughter Ivanka ready to pop the next Trumpster grandbaby as she launches a new line of shoes. Son Eric tries to push Chris the Sidekick out of frame. It’s The Celebrity President Reality Show.

Bon weekend.

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Coarse Discourse

Megyn Kelly will get another shot at Trump. His reaction to her barbs got him in trouble. Misogynist. So. He called Christie fat. Rubio sweaty and short. Jebra low energy. Fiorina’s face. Hillary’s voice. All targets. Equal opportunity insulter. That’s who he is. Is that okay? No. But, we know what we are getting. Now Rubio and Romney have sunk to his level. Name-calling. Schoolyard banter. A new standard for political discourse?

On The Donald’s Blue Monster at Doral, youngsters will also play today. McIlroy. Spieth. Day. Oy. Vey.

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Sap Flow

DSC_0010-3The sugar maples are running. Dark amber flow. DSC_0002-5

Just as we have a new dynamic duo. Tweedle Don. And. Tweedle Christie. Lots of sappy soundbites. Hillary wants love and kindness. Nice. Bernie’s run was good while it lasted. Lost its glow.

Oscars show. Can Chris Rock the house? Brooklyn syrupy. Bridge of Spies. Stellar. Rylance and Hanks. Gorgeous attention to detail. Marmalade moment. What The Big Short was not. Still fave Spotlight. Ruffalo.

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Linguistic Kill Shots

Dilbert‘s Scott Adams again touts Trump’s linguistic skills. Calls him a Master Persuader. Today on CNN Adams predicted that he will win the Presidency in a landslide by one of the largest margins in history. By lobbing kill shots that stick. Cruz a nasty liar. Jeb low energy. Rubio sweaty. Etc. Donald’s ability to pick battles up front that can go either way yet victory can be claimed. For example, Trump tells Fox that he won’t debate if Megyn Kelly is the moderator. If she is not replaced, he walks and looks strong. If she is removed, he gets his way and looks strong. Same with the Pope. Who backed down?  Not Dilbert Trump.

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Cuban Sandwich Picadillo

It’s the Cubano Dos and El Trumpo now. Rubio. Cruz. The Cuban crusts. Tricky Ted’s dirty tactics and Nixonian sneer harken back to the Bebe Rebozo corruption days. Marco el Rubio, not really. He’s not blond. But, as his SuperPac says, he is like Harry Potter to Donald’s Voldemort. Well. Sort of. Young and impressionable yes. NeoCons’ new rube.

Then there’s all those slices of ham in the middle. With lots of cheesey drippings. Spicy sauce. And most of the votes.

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Disruptors Rule

Confluence of the death of a Supreme who upheld Citizens United. Big Donor Bucks drove the political landscape. Then. There came Trump. Shattered the status quo. Major goal was to self-fund and debunk traditional nomination game. Took on the establishment. Even if he doesn’t go all the way. He has succeeded in disrupting. Lots of lobbyists scratching their heads.

And Bernie. He has brought Hillary to the far left. Turned out youth in droves. Small donations vs. the Fat Cats. Again. Disrupting. Well done.

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Greatest Show on Earth?!

This year’s 3-ring Presidential race is out of control. Orange-haired barker ducks as Carnival Cruz hurls swords his way. Rube to the O wears the organ-grinder outfit well. The flying Bushes trapeze overhead, hoping for a wide net. Hillary sharpens her whip for the animal act. Bernie the Clown has stolen the show.

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz weighed in. He doesn’t like the tangled acrobatics under the Big Top. Mark Halperin and John Heilemann shine the light on behind the scenes antics in their fantastic Showtime series The Circus.