Bassem  Youssef was the Egyptian comedian most compared to Jon Stewart, in Stewart’s heyday. Youssef was wildly popular in Egypt; until, the regime called  him in,  for questioning on the one sidedness of his jokes. After that interview, his attorney advised him not to let the sun set on him in Egypt.    He fled Egypt, and now lives with his family in America. He recently gave a poignant ad pregnant interview on British television about the current Israeli/HAMAS war; and how insignificant the lives of Palestinians are, in comparison to seven foreign aid workers, killed in an Israeli drone strike. This Blogger sent a video of that interview to a friend, a Palestinian-American on the cup of celebrity. She was touched, and then asked would this Blogger comment on the current state of affairs in the Middle East? As this Blog is being written, Israel is  suffering a retaliatory attack by the Shiite Muslim nation of  Iran. Why?  Israel attacked the Iranian consulate in Damascus, killing seve

  This Blogger has a friend, who is an actor. He played the lead in a Los Angeles production of STEAMBATH. STEAMBATH is one of those plays not produced nearly enough on America’s stages( MARAT/SADE, NO EXIT,SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR and THE BALCONY being others). STEAMBATH is set in an afterlife, in which that afterlife is set in a steam bath;  God is there, as the  Puerto Rican attendant. It is an absurdist play; but, since all of us are living through these absurdist times, it resonates. As the Israeli/HAMAS devolves into absolute absurdity, perhaps God indeed is a Puerto Rican steam bath attendant. The people of Gaza are starving; they need food. Israel, at war with HAMAS, the terrorist overlords of Gaza,  has restricted food supplies; in an effort, this Blogger assumes, to get the emaciated people of Gaza to turn against HAMAS. To alleviate the starvation, a consortium of nations: America, Jordan and Egypt have begun to parachute pallets of food supplies into beleaguere

  When he saw the first atomic bomb explode, the lead scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoted from sacred Hindu text,  Bhagavad Gita: “ Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”   But can it be true that Joe Biden is a Destroyer of Worlds? Let's follow the trail.   On  June 29, 2019 this Blogger published the following: “JOE BIDEN-….This Blogger  thinks he (Joe Biden) is bad karma and will bring that bad karma to America....... THE MAXEY CHRONICLES.” He did. The very soul of the nation feels Joe Biden's bad karma. The Biden Administration tries to attack the feelings of bad karma with data and statistics. But Data has never defeated feelings. Manipulated Data has never defeated raw feelings. As Joe Biden aged; he morphed beyond being bad karma into a Jonah, “a person who  will bring bad luck to any enterprise. ”  ( See the American withdrawal from Afghanistan).   Joe Biden tells everyone breathing; that his son, Beau should have been President, not him. But Beau is dead