A quick surf of Ye Olde Internet this morning shows me lots of stories about how many cities are allowing the reopening of businesses and how many cities that have are reporting record numbers of new COVID-19 cases. I understand but do not necessarily agree with the argument that remaining largely closed down may do more damage than keeping down the virus numbers. For the time being, I'm going to continue to disagree with that argument and stay here in the Fortress of Solitude. My friend Ken Levine well summarizes why you won't find me rushing out to dine in a favorite restaurant.
And my friend Paul Harris well summarizes how I feel about John Bolton. What Paul wrote is short enough that I'm going to steal the whole paragraph…
It's important to remember you can hold two opposing thoughts in your head simultaneously. For instance, you can think, "John Bolton's revelations about Trump make me feel great," while you also think, "John Bolton has always been a douchebag who helped push us into war with Iraq and refused to testify to the House during its impeachment hearings."
John Bolton has always been a terrible, terrible human being who thinks we should be sending American troops to bomb (and die) everywhere. I suppose there's a smidgen of respect that unlike everyone else who cheered on the Iraq War, he's still willing to say it was a good idea and we should have done more of that. But when Bolton and Trump are calling each other names, I can only express amazement at seeing two guys who are always wrong about everything else be right about each other.
Incidentally, I'm waiting for the Lincoln Project to whip up a montage of Trump insulting all the ex-employees he proudly hired not so long ago. Then they close with a clip of him bragging how he's a great manager who only hires the best people.
And that's about all I want to write about Trump for a while. I have to write about better people (some of them, talking animals) this week.
Tomorrow evening, I'm going to be resuming my "Conversations," my one-on-one webcasts. If you come to this blog in search of showbiz stories, you will O.D. on them when Jim Brochu and I get together. I'll post a little more about Jim later today or tomorrow morning. And this Saturday, I resume my Cartoon Voices Panels online. I'll post the lineup a little later. Off to work —!