These are the days of miracle and wonder
\nAnd don’t cry baby, don’t cry
\nDon’t cry. <\/p>\n
So sang Paul Simon on The Boy in the Bubble. <\/p>\n
These are the days of lasers in the jungle
\nLasers in the jungle somewhere
\nStaccato signals of constant information
\nA loose affiliation of millionaires
\nAnd billionaires and baby , don’t cry
\nDon’t cry. <\/p>\n
Aw, who\u2019s crying now? Trump\u2019s apologists are all over the jungle these days trying to mop up the mess he left accusing the prior president of wiretapping Trump Tower. Kellyanne Conway, as always the most entertaining of the surrogates designated for bidet overflows, suggested what he meant was that this is the day of wiretapping microwaves, everybody knows that now and that was only one of many possibilities. TV sets, I-phones, dishwashers, baby monitors, talking toilets, who could possibly say for sure which smartass device was doing the surveillance bidding for that lowlife Obama?<\/p>\n
She sure didn\u2019t know, but she was not, she insisted with some petulance, Inspector Gadget. Next question? I know what you\u2019re thinking: she\u2019s the mole burrowed in the Trump administration clandestinely working for Saturday Night Live. Deep Comedy. Staccato signals of constant misinformation tailormade for another hilarious sketch. <\/p>\n
There is a boy in the bubble, all right, so deeply out of touch with reality it probably should scare the bejabbers out of us, but \u2026 what about those poor folks who pinned their hopes to this guy,
\nIt’s a turn-around jump shot
\nIt’s everybody jump start
\nIt’s every generation throws a hero up the pop charts
\nMedicine is magical and magical is art
\nThe boy in the bubble
\nAnd the baby with the baboon heart? <\/p>\n
Me, I feel sorry for the baboon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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