{"id":6838,"date":"2018-02-15T11:36:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T16:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dooneyscafe.com\/?p=6838"},"modified":"2018-10-16T10:10:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T17:10:16","slug":"read-news-today-oh-boy-part-mmxviii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dooneyscafe.com\/read-news-today-oh-boy-part-mmxviii\/","title":{"rendered":"I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Part MMXVIII)"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are some mornings when I just want to send you the whole front page of the New York Times<\/em> so that you can also read all the horrible news while I (and Jesus and Mohammed) finish weeping.<\/p>\n

This morning (Feb. 15, 2018 \u2013 6-something a.m. here in Berlin, just past midnight in New York) at the top of the front page, it\u2019s 17 people \u2013 mostly teenage kids \u2013 shot dead, 15 wounded, in a Florida high school by the predictable over-armed loner who\u2019s been posting weird shit all over Facebook letting us know he\u2019s got an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and he\u2019s mad as hell.<\/p>\n

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At Florida school shooting.<\/p><\/div>\n

I tangentially note how culturally shaped these mass murders are in cultures that have them: so, in America, ever since Columbine High School in Colorado, circa<\/em> 1999 (that\u2019s the emblematic U.S. multiple shooting site), it\u2019s often young people with fried minds dropping in on their local elementary, high-school or college campus and blowing away whoever they can. (Yeah, sometimes it\u2019s somebody else \u2013 a middle-aged high stakes gambler in Las Vegas shooting the moon and those on the ground from his 32nd-floor hotel window, but mostly, with minor variations, it\u2019s schoolroom-slaughter.)<\/p>\n

And for \u201cradicalized\u201d (or maybe \u201cmedievalized\u201d is better) youngish people in the Muslim world, it takes the form, from Kabul to Baghdad to urban points west, of \u201cterrorist\u201d attacks \u2013 but one has the sense that the acts don\u2019t have much to do with politics or lately acquired religion or anything \u2013 that the terrorism, like the school shooting, is simply the available cultural form for expressing an extreme form of semi-sanctified madness. Once it was senseless mass-death-trench-warfare-slaughter for all those European-Russian-Austro-Hungarian-Turkish teens and we called it World War I.<\/p>\n

And no, no, please, no gun-reform talk unless (and this may be a conservative estimate) about 20 million people in all the major U.S. cities are prepared to hold a simultaneous mass unending sit-in-hunger-strike-protest that doesn\u2019t go away until, well, until something<\/em> tangible is changed. Okay, enough: it\u2019ll still be there, all over the screen, all-the-time, when I get up from the writing machine and turn on the TV.<\/p>\n

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Trump opposes domestic violence.<\/p><\/div>\n

Scroll down. And learn that the American President \u201csays he\u2019s \u2018totally opposed\u2019 to domestic violence,\u201d only several days or a century late, after a week-long scandal about a presidential aide who was forced to resign upon the revelation (okay, \u201callegation\u201d) that he physically assaulted two former wives (complete with photo of one ex-wife with a blackened eye), which has now been spun off into further scandals a) about whether the former aide had proper security clearance permitting him to show President Trump the top-secret Daily Briefing, which the president did or didn\u2019t read, and b) whether the president\u2019s current chief-of-staff, former General John Kelly, knew \u2013 and when did he know? — that the presidential aide, and the president\u2019s son-in-law and about thirty or so other West Wing staffers had only \u201ctemporary\u201d security clearance while they, too, were handling secret documents of every kind, and c) and d) and so on.<\/p>\n

I pause to vaguely recall the fuss made over a former Secretary of State in the previous administration whose handling of e-mails on a private, not totally secure computer, was denounced as \u201cextremely careless\u201d by the then head of the FBI, one James Comey, and then repeated for weeks and months by sundry others, until the phrase, \u201cBut what about her<\/em> e-mails?\u201d became a meme for Internet gossip and punchline for late-night TV show comedians. Yeah, ya gotta be careful with that secret stuff. \u00a0Anyway, she lost the presidential election to Trump (although, as we wander through the Great American Canyon, we hear a faint echo crying to Narcissus, \u201cBut Bernie would\u2019ve beat\u2019m… beat’m… beat’m,\u201d referring to another of Trump\u2019s potential rivals), and the FBI head in due course was also fired by the present unprecedented president \u2013 an ongoing matter that can be found elsewhere on the digital representation of today\u2019s edition.<\/p>\n

And since this, and almost all else is unending, it\u2019s also the case, and on the front screens of the Times<\/em>, that the former aide was \u201cdating\u201d (seldom has that innocuous relational term been contorted into such an obscene euphemism) the current head of the White House press office, who was busy writing releases and strategizing the handling of the firing of the aide (and \u201cboyfriend\u201d) accused of domestic abuse. Meanwhile, the president waited days and days to say anything about marital manhandling other than that the very fine aide had done a great, really great job and indeed had even denied the allegations. And at least, and at last, when he finally got around to opining, last night or whenever in whatever time zone, the president said he was opposed to spousal beating, which is, after all, better than saying he is for it.<\/p>\n

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Former South African President Jacob Zuma.<\/p><\/div>\n

By the waters of Babylon, we scrolled down, and we wept, when we remembered Zion and Nelson Mandela and yea, South Africa. \u201cJacob Zuma\u2019s legacy is a weakened South Africa,\u201d says the story somewhere on the labyrinthine front spread of the Times<\/em> reporting that SA President Jacob Zuma resigned yesterday in a fog of corruption charges, malfeasance in office, authoritarian manipulations, after some nine-years-plus in office, hero of yesteryear, former prison cellmate of Mandela, and now merely a typical kleptocratic African strongman. The accompanying editorial notices that he leaves behind \u201ca broken democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

No, I don\u2019t have time to tell you the story of apartheid<\/em>, or why J.M. Coetzee, the Nobel Prize-winning South African novelist migrated to Australia, or to re-read the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola\u2019s tales of The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads\u2019 Town<\/em> (1946)\u00a0 \u2013 Amos Tutuola? Where did he<\/em> come from in this moment of lamentation? I can only say that the reckless anarchist said to me (as recently as, was it last year?), \u201cI respected you when you smashed South African wine bottles to protest apartheid, but now that you\u2019ve become a Nazi-supporting free-speech neo-liberal hack\u2026\u201d I vainly tried to point out to him that breaking a wine bottle in a liquor store at 18th and Cambie in Vancouver in 19eighty-whatever was not equivalent to his current \u201cpunch-a-Nazi-in-the-nose\u201d slogan, while I contemplated how to \u201cunfriend\u201d him as politely as possible sometime around last Christmas.<\/p>\n

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Former chief of staff Reince Priebus (r.) on airport tarmac.<\/p><\/div>\n

There\u2019s more, so much more to scroll through, scrawl through. The previous presidential chief of staff, Reince Priebus, says in somebody\u2019s latest tell-all about the Trump White House, \u201cTake everything you\u2019ve heard, and multiply it by 50.\u201d All I can remember is a TV image of a lonely limousine on a wet tarmac in the back of which Priebus is allegedly sitting while taking in the seconds-ago news that he\u2019s just been fired as chief of staff, while the rest of the presidential cavalcade is on its way to the next whiskey bar, the next little girl, and the moon sails over Alabama. So, if you think the Mainstream Media (MSM) \u201cfake news\u201d New York Times<\/em> (which left radicals sneer at as \u201cneoliberal\u201d and right radicals deride as \u201clamestream\u201d) is making it up, or that Michael Wolff\u2019s maybe-not-so-well-written, but million-copy-selling Fire and Fury<\/em> is making it up, well, check out Reince Priebus in the news today and see if you think he\u2019s making it up. Reince who??<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, and elsewhere, the president\u2019s personal lawyer is raising new \u201cethical, legal and factual questions\u201d for having paid off a buxom porn star with whom the president allegedly had an affair several years back, the hush money being provided (allegedly) from the lawyer\u2019s own pocket and not, repeat not, from election campaign donation funds. Got all that? Good. Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyuhu is vigorously denying bribery charges levelled against him by the local Jewish constabulary \u2013 mazaltov<\/em>!; there are some \u201cserious derelictions\u201d of travel expense reporting by the U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs apparently; and almost lost in the wreckage, there\u2019s something about legislative debate concerning undocumented would-be immigrants known as \u201cDreamers\u201d; and no doubt more, and too much.<\/p>\n

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Psalm 137.<\/p><\/div>\n

By the rivers of Babylon, we scrolled down \u201cand wept\u2026 \/ We hanged our harps on the willows in the midst thereof\u2026 \/\u00a0 How shall we sing the Lord\u2019s song in a strange land?\u201d<\/p>\n

Wait. What\u2019s the big thought about everything \u2013 also this morning \u2013 that goes into a letter to a friend? \u00a0It\u2019s kind of gloomy: a)\u00a0 We\u2019ll never really understand the whole story, and b) we can\u2019t,<\/em> given the human condition, understand the whole story (because we\u2019ll permanently pop off in the middle, or go gaga), and c) we may be substantially wrong about what we think we understand about the whole story and d) \u2013 slight saving grace \u2013 as a writer I still have the idea that if I could really see<\/em> everything on the street I\u2019m walking on, and if I could accurately write about it, that I\u2019d have something<\/em> (even though it wouldn\u2019t be the whole story) \u2013 an idea similar to one the Russian writer Isaac Babel had, according to a review of a book of his writings that I read this morning in The New York Review of Books<\/em>, just before I opened the front page of the paper. And then we hanged up our harps on the willows in the midst thereof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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