To this Blogger’s chagrin, he missed    commemorating Marlene Dietrich’s birthday. In this depressed and diminished age of hologram women, such as Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Kamala Harris and Oprah, society has forgotten what power real women have, over society and men, both good and evil. The holograms make a lot of money, and yield social and political power; but does anyone think that President Xi of Communist China, or President Putin of Russia or the theocrats of Iran or the Sunni fanatics of HAMAS are afraid of them, to the point of placing a bounty on their lives? To the bad actors of the world, these modern icons exemplify the decadence, corruption and doom of modern American society. Why kill the termites when you want the house of America to cave in? During World War II, that arguably most evil of men, Adolf Hitler, placed a bounty on the lives of two women: The Queen of England, later known as the Queen Mum and Marlene Dietrich. He wanted both of them, not sent   to

  THE PROFOUND Reason  Centers on Liberal Devotion to  Anarcho-tyranny The founder of the WASHINGTON MONTHLY magazine recently died. He left us with an interesting insight; he believed that the current, perhaps irreconcilable,   divide, in the American body politic, had its genesis in the 1960s anti-Vietnam war movement. Specifically, the anti-war  Americans became, to themselves, morally superior to all those who believed in supporting the Americans dying in a faraway place, in a stupid war. Once, Liberals confirmed, to themselves,  their moral superiority over other Americans, they made the logical jump that illegal aliens were morally superior to  American natives, leaving Donald Trump as the champion of morally inferior Americans. The Liberal friends of this Blogger are amazed at Donald Trump’s steadfast support among close to a majority of Americans, notwithstanding MSNBC, The NEW YORK TIMES editorial Board and passe Republicans like David Brooks, David Frum and the disgraced Sout

  This Blogger considers Jean Genet one of the great dramatists of the 20 th  Century, on par with Pirandello, Pinter, and Brecht. This Blogger considers THE BALCONY and THE MAIDS flat out masterpieces, but masterpieces of the  Théâtre de la Cruauté( the Theater of Cruelty . He never won a Nobel Prize for Literature. Perhaps because of his checkered background; he was a thief, a criminal, a convict, a male prostitute and a pimp. To top it off, Genet had an ungodly obsession with the Roman Catholic Church; when Jean Paul Sartre wrote his famous essay on Genet, he called it SAINT GENET. VATICAN II, the great Catholic Council was televised in Europe; d uring VATICAN II, Genet set up  shop at a Parisian café, at an outdoor table. He placed a television on his table, and invited bystanders to watch the proceedings with him,as he offered commentary. The highlight of his day was pointing out which of the bishops on screen were gay. Genet was a master of the dynamics of role playing. He was on