By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — President Trump is suing a world-renowned Israeli psychological institute for claiming the his Pinocchio-like nose is an outgrowth of his “pathological lying.” The action is a countersuit in response to the institute’s allegation that Trump refused to pay for its expert analysis of the cause of his nose […]
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireThe Uncensored State of the Union Address By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−For the most part, President Trump read off the teleprompter yesterday, but there were zingers he wanted to add to parts of the State of the Union Speech that his advisors told him to omit. Here they are. * “If there is going to
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — The New England Patriots were the victors against the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII, which sports writer Jeff Pearlman (and many others) called “the worst Super Bowl ever.” Wide receiver Julian Edelman, the first Jewish player to win the MVP honor in a Super Bowl,
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Sports & Competitions, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Ann Coulter, the conservative political commentator who is considered a strong influence on President Trump, appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher. She criticized Trump for giving in on the government shut down without getting funding for a wall on the Mexican border, saying “He promised something for 18 months,
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — President Trump made a secret trip to Israel in recent weeks to seek an answer to a medical mystery involving his nose. The appendage has been getting bigger, family and staff members reluctantly agreed, after he constantly studied himself in the mirror and announced he’d come to that conclusion.
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatirePresidential Poems By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−To build support for his wall, this week President Trump Tweeted a short poem: “Build the wall and crime will fall!” If this works, he plans to compose other snappy couplets. * I’m not weaker than Madam Speaker. Forget Roe vs. Wade! Just don’t get laid. Border urgency equals
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Actress Carol Channing, best known for playing the role of Dolly Levi in Hello Dolly more than 4500 times in her career, died last week at the age of 97. Channing was raised as a Christian Scientist, though she later discovered that her mother was Jewish. She learned Yiddish fluently from her
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireWhy Mike Pence thinks Donald Trump is like Martin Luther King Jr. By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−On Sunday Mike Pence compared Donald Trump’s new proposal on border wall funding to Martin Luther King’s activist philosophy. To Pence, Trump is the White King (though not as white as Pence). Here’s why: * Both King and Trump
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — President Trump gave serious consideration to using an eruv as a virtual wall on the border between the United States and Mexico, according to sources familiar with his plan. It came about this way: He’d essentially dismissed concrete as the material for the wall that he’d constantly pledged
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireSAT (Satisfactory Answers Test) for William Barr By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−So far, William Barr has displayed verbal dexterity in evading direct answers to questions about what parts of Mueller’s final report he would release to Congress, about whether he would recuse himself from overseeing the Mueller investigation if the ethics experts at the Department
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Lin-Manuel Miranda, the playwright and composer who wrote the mega-hit Broadway show Hamilton, and who is currently starring in the movie, Mary Poppins Returns, just returned to the role of Alexander Hamilton in a production of the show in Puerto Rico. Miranda staged the show there to raise funds and bring
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireWalls (with apologies to Joyce Kilmer) By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO− To think that I possess the gall To close the country for a wall. A wall of concrete or of steel To generate my voters’ zeal. A wall that keeps the riffraff out By blocking their illegal routes. A wall that saves us from
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Following the election of a Democratic-majority House of Representatives, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi has just been elected as Speaker of the House. Pelosi, a strong supporter of Israel and the Jewish community, is the only woman to have ever held that post, and the first person in sixty years to
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Israeli writer and peace advocate Amos Oz died last week at the age of 79. Oz wrote novels, essays, short stories, children’s books, and more. Among his most well-known works were the novels Elsewhere, Perhaps and My Michael. His memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness focused on the suicide of his mother when
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