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Sunday, April 05, 2026

In my head, I maintain this list. I call it the Dead To Me List, a compendium of performers who have shown or expressed support for Donald Trump. Anybody on that list will never receive another dime of my money or second of my time for any new project in which they are top-billed. Yes, I recognize the futility of this. No, I don't flatter myself that my one-man boycott will change anything or even be noticed. It's something I do for principle. Something I do for me.


Eostre is the pagan fertility goddess of humans and crops.


Wednesday, April 01, 2026

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Tuesday, March 10, 2026

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Sunday, March 01, 2026

America is strong because its leaders are strong. President Trump proves that every day. Naturally, his son Barron is more than ready to defend the country his father so boldly commands. Service is honor. Strength is inherited. Dog Bless Barron.


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So even though Kelsey Grammer's Frasier is one of my all-time favorite sitcoms, I sat out the revival a couple years ago. Even though I was entertained by the first season of Sylvester Stallone's Tulsa King, I never saw the second. Not that avoiding every denizen of the list has been a sacrifice. I doubt I'd have lined up for whatever Dean Cain and Rob Schneider have coming up next regardless of their political leanings. I'm not a fan.

The same goes for two latest additions to the list: actor Nick Cannon and singer Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas of the group TLC. They are people my kids grew up idolizing, not me, and I don't feel any sense of personal loss at this week's news that they support the MAGA agenda.

Which isn't to say I don't feel something. Call it a profound sense of disappointment.

And it is, to be brutally candid, quite specifically because they are African Americans. That means they should know better. Yet like a small but growing number of black luminaries "Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg and the anti-semite formerly known as Kanye " it is apparent that they simply do not. Or else, they just don't give a damn.

Either way, we are talking about a level of historical imbecility that beggars belief. And a gaping emptiness in the place where character ought to be.

If this were Maryland in the 1850s, these are the black people who would be standing by the side of the road saying, "Harriet went that-a-way, boss."

If this were Montgomery, Alabama in 1956, they'd be riding the bus.

It this were the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, they'd be in the gift shop.

Instead, it's 2026, and they're using their platforms and fame to cape for Donald Trump.

Lord, save me from Negroes like these.

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