Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does another current events roundup.
TRUMP ANNOUNCES THAT AMERICAN HOSTAGE EDAN ALEXANDER, TAKEN BY HAMAS IN OCTOBER OF 2023, HAS BEEN RELEASED AND IS ON HIS WAY HOME. He was the last American hostage in Hamas hands.
PRESIDENT TRUMP CONTINUES FIGHTING PRICE-JACKING BY BIG PHARMA. More HERE. Another reminder that Trump is the best president for the working class and the poor of our lifetime. Legislation would have been better, but Congress is too deeply in Big Pharma’s pocket.
DEMOCRAT ELECTED OFFICIALS FACING ARREST OVER ASSAULTING FEDERAL OFFICERS AT RIOT IN SUPPORT OF VIOLENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE.
TRUMP GETS NEW TRADE DEAL WITH CHINA. Biden’s deals only ever benefited China and the Biden Crime Family but Trump’s benefits the nation.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR REVEALS THAT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF “JOBS” ANNOUNCED BY BIDEN WERE FAKE. The Biden Regime was like one big RICO operation.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA “TEACHER OF THE YEAR” SENTENCED FOR CHILD SEX CRIMES. One victim was only eleven years old. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?
DEMOCRATS CALLED OUT FOR GOING FROM “MEN CAN HAVE BABIES” TO “WE LIKE THE TERRORISTS.” Continue reading
MINNIE’S BOYS (1970) – HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! This year Balladeer’s Blog looks at the musical comedy Minnie’s Boys, about Minnie Marx, the mother – and show-biz manager – of the five Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo and Gummo). Actors portraying her sons co-starred and conjured up the kind of hilarious chaos you’d expect.
Let’s face it, trying to do a straight drama about the most anarchic comedians since Edward Lear and Eugene Ionesco would have been foolish, even if their mother is the lead character, not them. The storyline in Minnie’s Boys takes Minnie and her sons from their teenage years in vaudeville to their achievement of stardom. 





For some prep as I at last get back into reviewing the surviving fragments of ancient Greek comedy every now and then, here’s my 2011 review of Demoi by Eupolis. Along with Aristophanes and Cratinus, Eupolis was one of the Big Three of Attic Old Comedy. Background info is 







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Cheri Currie of Runaways fame unleashed a broadside on the pathetic, hatemongering, fascistic and intolerant Democrat Party of 2025. She courageously embraced the MAGA label, too.