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Quotation of the Day for December 17, 2016"In the late 1980s, the satirical New York magazine Spy - perhaps the greatest periodical in the history of the universe - took as its main target a local blowhard real estate developer, Donald Trump. It began referring to him as "short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump".... In 1989, Spy gave Mr. Trump five spots on its annual list of 100 Most Annoying People, Places and Things. "You'd think Mr. Trump might have moved on in the past 30 years. I mean, that's a lot of gilt under the bridge. And really, he will soon ascend to the White House, thanks to a couple of cloaks placed over mud puddles by his gallant friends in the Kremlin. If ever there is a perch to be magnanimous from, it's that one. But magnanimity does not seem to be part of Mr. Trump's cosmos. "Mr. Trump has not been able to let it go. The derision of his digits makes him crazy. At one of the Republican presidential nominee debates, gently goaded by Marco Rubio, he burst into a furious defence of his hands - and by extension, the unseen part of his anatomy (no, not his heart. He couldn't very well defend the size of that)." - Elizabeth Renzetti, in her essay "Go ahead, laugh: Humour is the weapon in the fight against Trump". [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/go-ahead-laugh-humour-is-the-weapon-in-the-fight-against-trump/article33356471/] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Dec. 17, 2016  |
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