SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET: 

SOME HUMOR AT LAST – From Mediaite:  Presidential candidate John Kasich — whose campaign recently released several cinematic anti-Trump masterpieces on YouTube — Saturday unveiled a website promoting the fictional “Trump-Putin 2016” campaign, inviting voters to “make tyranny great again.”  The website, trump-putin2016.com launched several days after Vladimir Putin heaped praise on the Republican frontrunner; the Russian president told reporters Thursday that Donald Trump is “a very bright and talented person and the absolute leader of the presidential race.”  I love it.  It's time for some humor in the grim primary contests. 

MAJOR EDUCATIONAL CRISIS – From thecollegefix.com:   An adjunct at Rutgers University says that the school has “effectively canceled” his course on black feminism taught through the pop singer Beyoncé.  School officials say the course was merely moved over to the American studies program, but instructor Kevin Allred says he had to ask that program to pick it up — after the women’s studies department did not put it on the spring semester schedule.  Allred has taught “Politicizing Beyoncé” eleven times now. According to him, the course discusses “the thin line Beyoncé walks as a sex kitten-cum-girl power role model.”  The intellectual depth simply overwhelms me.  I'd have to take an introductory course just to get ready for "Politicizing Beyoncé."

HMM, A PLOT HERE? – From The Hill:   Former top Obama adviser David Axelrod is criticizing the Democratic National Committee's treatment of Sen. Bernie Sanders in the growing controversy over private voter data.  "W/out evidence that his hierarchy knew about data-poaching, harsh penalty v. @BernieSanders looks like @DNC is putting finger on the scale," David Axelrod tweeted Friday.  Pretty strong stuff, suggesting the Democratic National Committee is tilting things in favor of Hillary.  Would Axelrod put that out without Obama's approval?  I don't know, but it's an intriguing question.

GUN SALES SOAR...IN EUROPE – It is very hard to buy a firearm in most of Western Europe.  But still, gun sales are soaring, with customers willing to go through the background checks and paperwork to gain approval for a gun purchase.  Gun Sales are especially strong in Sweden, which some say is on the brink of chaos because the "enlightened" government in Stockholm admitted so many immigrants from the Mideast who do not share Swedish values.  It's clear from the gun sales report that many Europeans no longer trust their governments to protect them.  Sound familiar?

December 19,  2015