Posts Tagged ‘united kingdom’
One tweet. Four deliberate, purposeful lies.
This tweet got a little loss in the political firestorm of the last couple days, which is understandable. Not only did Trump disparage Haiti and refer to African countries as “shitholes,” but he managed this act of indecency on the eight year anniversary of the Haitian earthquake and on the cusp of Martin Luther King,…
Read MoreThe UK has a new Prime Minister. Unfortunately, it still has a stupid Queen.
The United Kingdom has a lot of problems right now. I don’t mean to pile on. But can’t we all agree that the need to meet and curtsey before some nonsense Queen who only earned her position through a series of ancestral sexual encounters in order to officially be declared Prime Minister is a ludicrous…
Read MoreBare-breasted women are perfectly fine but Dicks was offensive?
Though my most recent novel, MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND, is published in England (and doing quite well), I’ve never had the pleasure of visiting the country. But it has come to my attention (through its publisher’s recent defense) that The Sun, a popular British tabloid newspaper, publishes large, color photographs of topless women on…
Read MoreMy new favorite person in the world
They left their bookstores behind.
A new study has found that at various times the British have invaded almost 90 percent of the countries around the globe. The analysis of the histories of the almost 200 countries found only 22 which have never experienced an invasion by the British. And the Brits seemed so civilized. As an author, I’ve noticed…
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