In the 18 years, 7 months and 22 days I've been doing this blog, I have rarely had the problem that I couldn't think of anything to write about. I do not have that problem now but I'm having trouble coming up with anything that isn't about Donald Trump and/or Guns and/or White Supremacists. One of the many things I don't like about Trump — and it's a long, long list starting with the time he called my dear friend Jan Hooks a misogynistic
term because she was in sketches they did about him on Saturday Night Live — is the way he often seems to panic that all America is not talking about him. So what does he do at those moments? He does something stupid or vulgar to get that dialogue going again. There seems to be an overwhelming fear there that if we aren't talking about him, even if it's just to say we loathe him, he will somehow cease to exist.
I don't like this blog too much when it's mainly about one thing, no matter what that one thing is. That's because I don't like my life as much when my brain is working overtime on one topic, no matter what that one topic is. I've started a half-dozen posts this week that are either about D.J.T. or the N.R.A. or wind up inexplicably segueing into being about them. Then I stop and say, "No, I'm spending too much of my life writing/thinking about this stuff."
You can help. If you'd like to see more new content on this blog, send me some questions that aren't about Trump or guns or White Supremacists or how people like Tucker Carlson will say anything (anything!) if it keeps the old bank account bulging. The e-mail address to use is askme@newsfromme.com. It can be about comics, TV, animation, old comedians, tomato soup, the evils of cole slaw or any of the other vital topics on which this blog obsesses. Just stay away from politics because I have too many thoughts already along those lines. Thank you.