Brooding Calves
You know who gets special consideration for brooding their ideas? The Conservative Political
Action Committee. They had this great idea to partner with Viktor Orbán, autocratic leader of
Hungary, and apparently a conservative movement hero. They held their recent convention of
global whining and xenophobic tantrums in Hungary. And fascist strongman Orbán, the
conservative hero, delivered the keynote speech.
HUNGARY
Ring any bells? Any Jews, gay people, communists, Catholics, Poles, or Roma have surviving
memories of Hungary? My neighbor when I was growing up had a tattoo on her arm from a
Hungarian concentration camp.
Jeff describes the spontaneous generation of ideas, good and, in the case of CPAC Budapest, bad.
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Guest
Jeff Dorchen
Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles. He writes the Substack, Right Twice A Day.
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