God, Aliens, and Other Stuff

  I just finished Michael Cohen's book Disloyal A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump . It was riveting and hard to put down. Every single incident that he describes as Trump's attorney and "fixer," Rachel Maddow covered accurately, asking all the right questions, so little was new and nothing was surprising. Rachel doesn't do her own research on these kinds of issues. She gets in touch with the journalists from Washington Post, New York Times, Vanity Fair, Wall Street Journal, Politico, Axios, Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, and many, many others. Many of the scoops received are actually leaks from anonymous sources who are concerned that important information will be buried to the detriment of the American people. It confirmed that DJT knew, and was told in person, about the infamous June 9, 2016 meeting with Don Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jar...

One month after Covid-19 quarantine Sometimes I have prescient dreams, and on occasion, they involve a U.S. president. On June 23, 2018 I had one of those. The mutual detention dream I had gone to bed way too late the night before and got up too early, so I was sleepy all morning. That called for a sofa nap in the afternoon (a frequent occurrence with me these days). Just before waking up, I dreamt these words, “Mr. President, your cot next to Michael (?)’s cot.” The cots were in the corner of a large, temporary tent like those set up to house immigrants applying for asylum. I don’t know why the last name was muddled, but I feel it was done deliberately. Then I was suddenly awake. There are only a few Michaels of import in the Trump story. One is Flynn and another is Cohen. So that aspect of the dream is a mystery for a future day. Cohen had not yet flipped at the time, and I wondered if it meant he would. If the dream is prophetic, and if Cohen is the Michael, it doesn’t ...