Dismissing the swashbuckling sci-fi romp as "a total hoax" amid growing scrutiny over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, President Donald Trump made remarks Tuesday denying that he had written a 36-volume comic titled Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles. Obtained last month by the House committee investigating the late financier and child sex trafficker, the Time Pedophiles saga depicts Trump and Epstein journeying through various historical eras aboard Epstein's Chronolita Express time machine, taking on Edo-period samurai, ancient Roman legionaries, and Wild West gunslingers in their never-ending quest for underage sexual partners. read more
The monthslong bipartisan effort to sidestep Speaker Mike Johnson and force the release of all Justice Department files on the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is kicking into high gear this week, setting up a December floor battle that President Donald Trump has sought to avoid. read more
Trump has pardoned a long list of allies who faced court proceedings in connection with accusations they tried to overturn the 2020 election, according to the Justice Department (DOJ). read more
Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime co-conspirator of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is preparing a commutation application to be reviewed by the Trump administration, according to a new document obtained by the House Judiciary Committee Democrats. read more
The Senate on Thursday voted down a measure requiring congressional approval for any military action by President Donald Trump against Venezuela. read more
Not rock or blues related, but watching Manitas de Plata (Ricardo Baliardo) (en.wikipedia.org) perform with his singer uncle, a performance that's stayed with me as an unusually vivid memory for nearly sixty years. The guitarist certainly earned his "Little Hands of Silver" moniker. Example: youtu.be
After that first number got laughed out of town, Bolsonaro's now warbling out a different tune: "Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday told a judge that medicine-induced paranoia and hallucination caused him to tamper with an electronic ankle monitor" (www.reuters.com).
"Mostly, I try to live and be with them [her children] now. But being in the present is harder than it sounds, so I let the memories come and go. So many of them are from my childhood that I feel as if I'm watching myself and my kids grow up at the same time. Sometimes I trick myself into thinking I'll remember this forever, I'll remember this when I'm dead. Obviously, I won't. But since I don't know what death is like and there's no one to tell me what comes after it, I'll keep pretending. I will keep trying to remember."