4.05.2025

My father and Stalin's moustache.

 My father was a defense attorney in Romania. He defended peasants accused of insulting Stalin – saying things like, "I pooped on Stalin's moustache" – and others accused of belonging to the "green shirts" or "black shirts." He wasn't necessarily courageous, but he took on these defenses. In communist courts. Today,  on the 51st anniversary of his death, I performed a set at a stand-up open mic.

all these prestigious  law firms abandoning their profession and striking deals with Trump.  It makes me wonder if, in a year or two, I'll be able to find an attorney willing to defend me for making jokes about Trump.

3.07.2025

Historically, banning words

 The tNYT  has published a large list of words that are banned in the Trump administration. As a person that learned English very late in life and still struggles, I appreciate any reduction of vocabulary. I don;t know though why one of the most appreciated words in the language is in the  list. SEX What's wrong with it. Whose sex is it anyway?

Strangely the word HISTORICALLY is also banned. For the MAGA crowd history is a bad word. I thought Again in MAGA is a reference to history.

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