DUMP TRUMP

SO I'M IN ISTANBUL, TRYING TO GET A BREATHER
FROM THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION...

And I'm in Eyup, looking across the magnificent Golden Horn.

Seeing great mosques and traditional architecture.

Marveling at all the cultural richness in Istanbul.

And there, jarring the historic skyline, I see it.

Trump Towers.

The guy ruins everything he touches.

Pretty damn galling to earn a hefty licensing fee from you ugly name.

In a city that is probably 90% Muslim.

Guess you can take in their dollars.

But then talk cowboy tough about banning all followers of the Islamic Faith from your Aryan Nation vision of the U.S.

What a disgrace.

What proof that money doesn't by class or grace or wisdom

Blowhard dictator. Stop barfing your KKK era vision of the past on my great nation.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

SIMPLE THOUGHTS ON WHAT THE FOURTH OF JULY MEANS TO ME

In November, we can take to the polls and endorse bigotry, bullying, anger and hatred.

It is within our rights to elect a leader of the free world who firmly believes:

Whites outrank blacks, Hispanics and all other non-whites

Able bodied people rule over disabled folks.

Straights are more valued than gays -- as are traditional families over non traditional households.

Men are tenfold superior to women.

Religious freedom no longer is a guaranteed right in the U.S. Constitution, thus Christians have the right to abuse Muslims and all other non-Christians.

I reject all of these insane, anti-American views.

I find them every bit as dangerous as Nazism, Fascism and the KKK.

Yet we have a 50-50 chance of having a president who not only holds these beliefs dear, he angrily flaunts his dangerous hurtful words to anyone who will listen -- via dozens of media platforms.

I was in Orlando this week.

I visited the aftermath of a person ruled by anger, hate, bigotry, violence.

Though I am not a formally religious man, I pray we do not desecrate the White House with a man ten thousandfold more dangerous than the Orlando shooter.

Happy Independence Day to all.