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We have previously commented on the provenance of modern religious belief, opining upon its advent as the worship of the Gods deemed responsible for Man’s seasons. We stated that certain prescribed rituals performed with the evergreen trees, which, unlike other flora, were observed to magically survive the cold winter, faithfully for a few months, restored life to the “Sun God.” concomitant with the revitalized flora and fauna. We were bold enough to opine that early rituals, involving such natural phenomena, were doubtlessly responsible for the advent of religious belief in death and resurrection.

We choose to maintain an analogous dynamic relevant to the present governmental dystopia and its threats to American constitutional democracy. Man’s long enjoyment of the unfettered franchise for personal development and fulfillment is inarguably “Evergreen,” i.e., never withered or wilted. The existential desire for freedom of expression and action, once experienced, is systemic and everlasting.

The cold and forbidding ambiance of neo-authoritarianism of the present Trump-MAGA administration, analogous to the temporally forbidding cold of the Winter Season, will, in due course, be fully resurrected to the traditional American freedom and way of life, with the analogous certainty to Man’s expectation of the natural changes brought about by the fixed orbit of our Planet around the Sun.

Having historically tasted its empirically sweet and emancipating joy, we are supremely confident that the entire Nation will, in short order, adamantly express its preference for the assured liberty implicit in the American Constitutional way of life. The American citizens’ desire for freedom is experiential, perennial, and eternally “Evergreen.”

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Of the veritable legion of odiferous dumpster-fulls of Donald Trump’s obscene anti-American acts, the “tan holocaust,” i.e., the Hitler-like program of victimization and abuse of peaceful, productive, and law-abiding Hispanic Americans, may rank among the most foetid.

The present government, under its current, perverse and dystopic leadership, in its desire for the acquisition of supreme autocratic power, has echoed the fascistic playbook of Adolf Hitler, history’s most notorious tyrant. Strategically singling out a designated category of the American population, as Hitler did with respect to the Jews, the would-be autocrat, Donald J. Trump, has tactically selected our Hispanic American neighbors for victimization.

Our Nation’s despotic, power-hungry style of Chief Executive, in orthodox observance of modern history’s foul and detested Holocaust Field Guide, has tactically chosen the empirically identifiable, viz., tan-skinned and Spanish-language-speaking individuals, as the scapegoat du jour.

Despite official statistics generally attesting, to their productive, tax-paying, and patriotic military service, our dystopic President, albeit (himself, adjudged guilty of no less than 34 felonies with an additional score of federal criminal indictments, held in abeyance, merely due to his Office, with personal adjudications of rape and sexual abuse, tax fraud, bribery in exchange for non-disclosure of his brisk commerce with prostitutes, demonstrated long term bosom buddy relationship with the child sexual abuse magnate, Jeffry Epstein, and overt despiser of the Nation’s Constitution and established Rule of Law, abuser of the societal moral compass, has publicly rationalized the thematic and contemptible policy as “ridding the Nation of criminals.” Such carnival mirror distortion, unfortunately, has been blindly and cultishly accepted by his cultish lemmings, d/b/a, “MAGA.”

The horrific optics are inclusive of the Presidential, nightmarish authorization of a masked Gestapo-style private army, to wreak traditional Ku Klux Klan styled misery on the contextually scapegoated population, including physical abuse, unlawful arrest, incarceration, banishment to foreign torture prisons, and separation of families; all without a scintilla of validity or mandated constitutional due process.

It is our presumption that, in light of the evident popularity of the American Civil Rights movement, relevant to the goal of equal rights for black American citizens and the relatively recent history of the European Holocaust against the Jewish people, the Nation’s population of the Hispanic ethnicity was the pragmatic, reprehensible, and evilly-inspired choice.

All Americans of goodwill, Latino and otherwise, as American citizens, are morally and principally obliged join in a concerted effort to oppose Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters in their malign efforts to undermine our democracy, inclusive of the present contextual, Kristallnacht-like effort to prosecute fellow Hispanic-American neighbors, as well as Donald Trump’s detestable plethora of un-American travesties, including autocratic violation of posse comitatus, Nazi-style retribution against political rivals, denigration of the media and of higher education, and autocratic despoilation of the fundamental tenets of the American Constitution.

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[Historical Provenance]: It was the universally celebrated virtuoso of the originally three-hole noiseflute, Maestro Ignatz Volvarian (1919-1979). The Maestro garnered world acclaim by his superlative, heart-stopping performance of the “Bohemian Rhapsody, on his venerable three-hole noseflute before the assembled German and Russian delegates at the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Since that time, descendants of the musical genius have perpetuated the aesthetic fame of the contextual musical instrument, recently and metaflusively enhanced by the addition of an impactful fourth hole.

The contemporary beneficiary of the contextual musical skill is the grandson of Ignatz Volverian, Igor Ramos Volvarian, whose performances before the myriad of nose flute aficionados, reportedly, have earned him international accolades. It had long been discovered that the contextual nose flute produces tones that are not entirely suitable for recording, despite the progressive and impactful addition of a fourth hole, so that musical aficionados of the instrument found that personal attendance at participating music venues, such as the Met and Carnegie Hall, aesthetically permitted the true potential for the exploitation of the instrument’s potentially profound depth of exhalatory emotional expression.

As an indirect, yet exceedingly profitable consequence of the growing taste for such esoteric music, television sales of specific pharmaceuticals claiming relief from nasal congestion have skyrocketed, and young Igor Ramos Volvarian benefited financially from such grateful and generous companies. With monies earned from his musical performances, and the addition of such gratuities, the young nose-flute empressario, factually assured of financial stability, married the daughter of a prominent couscous manufacturer, and soon after having two children by his bride, Brunhilda, viz., a son. Ignatz, Jr, and a daughter, Ramona-Immaculata, purchased a suburban home in Great Neck, Harbor, New York.

As luck would have it, a post-graduate student at Stony Brook University, engaged in field study on the Long Island Pine Barrens, discovered that her recorded nose-flute music, played during her rest breaks, consistently attracted Hummingbees and huge clouds of Monarch Butterflies. She excitedly photographed the beautiful flying creatures and subsequently included them in a published book, the latter, founded upon her thematically altered doctoral thesis, quickly became a best-seller, based on the exemplary kudos published in Sierra Magazine. Sales of the book, as well as newly engineered and acoustically improved recordings of Igor Ramos’s nose flute offerings, now hit their zenith; the young Valvarian family had suddenly and fortuitously become rich and famous.

We are led to empirically conclude that in our free and enterprising Democratic Republic, the attainment of great financial success is eternally possible and, inarguably, nothing to sneeze at.

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Moist ethereal breezes intimately whisper
Cooling balm to sunbaked foliage.
Trees, now attired in military raiment,
In styles bespeaking revolutionary riot,
Proclaiming in an eye-sparkling manifesto,
The swift advent of seasonal overthrow.
-There’s no time to lose!

Boughs strain heavy with seasonal fruitage.
The bounty, tho’, forsaken by large mammals,
In search of safer havens
Alas, no time for juicy gorging,
Time’s to be spent for seasonal survival.
Smaller ones, storing food, burrowing deep.
Instinct warns, dalliance spells disaster!
-We must not tarry!

Winged creatures depart aloft
Huge flocks with little hesitation,
Escaping to safer geography.
Could one but hear beneath the forest floor,
The excited chatter of woodland critters,
Anxiously nose-wrinkling rodent reconnaissance
-Is there yet time?

Darkening clouds bespeak woodland calamity
Soon, winter gales, storms, sheets of ice,
Snow, that covers safe niches and hide-outs,
Cold that delights in shivering death.
All must forsake the Fall magic.
– And again, we will be ready!

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(Leonard N. Shapiro, Sept. 2018)

In our estimation, there is no more expressive genre of fine art comparable to poetry in its effective transmission of aesthetic emotion. Our conception of the creation of such rarefied art is analogous to the painstaking process of extracting and distilling precious from the earthly soil of human experience. The refined riches of human emotion, singularly expressed by poetics, are painstakingly extracted from the conglomerate “soil” of Man’s empirical experience, yielding the aesthetic expression of intimately reactive feelings.. As such, the essence and contextual legitimacy of the contextual art form are matters of literary significance. We might, if warranted, avoid the potentially critical charge of presumption by the revelation that our conception and thematic criteria for” poetry” are fundamentally based upon our understanding of its conception by the revered English poet, Samuel Baker Coleridge.

We are regular subscribers to such journals and magazines, which, as perceived are ubiquitously considered to be “literary” and aesthetic journals.”The American Scholar” (Phi Beta Kappa), “Smithsonian Magazine”, “The Atlantic,” and The “New Criterion” have personally been sources of aesthetic pleasure and, at times, an expansion of consciousness by their respective inclusion of contributors of well-written and thought-provoking essays on a universe of thought-provoking matters philisophical and ethical, as well as the issues of the day.

Such established and recognizably excellent journals, nevertheless, seem to have a mutual affinity for the mutual publication of works of “poetry”; the latter provoking the conceivably radical but hopefully non-presumptuous context of this perturbed writing. Stated simply, we would, thematically, inquire as to the legitimacy of these regularly presented offerings, in fact, as “poetry,” in the ultimate analysis? We do not maintain that the ubiquitous offerings are not worthwhile reading;, we merely question their inclusion in the authentic genre of “Poetry.”

We would reprise our declaration that in the creation of “poetry,” we are adherents to the definition of the contextually esoteric art, declared by the classic British poet, Samuel Taylor Breckinridge, viz., that poetry fundamentally consists of ” word imagery and economy of speech.”. As an illustration, we might construe a poetic description of a beautiful young girl as ” a fresh rosebud on a newly fallen drift of snow.” The poetics reside in the economy of the analogical visual description.

In addition to the painstaking obligation to select the words most expressive of the poet’s emotional intent, poetics also involves other aesthetically communicative considerations in its creation, inclusive of, their sylabic arrangement in such a manner that the poet creates a tempo conducive to the desired context of the work. The most accessible example of this expressive technique is best illustrated in Longfellow’s rhythmic work, “Hiawatha,” in which the metric tempo replicates the relevant sound of indian drumbeats. Further impactful considerations are found in the choice of the length of the work’s lines (“stanzas”) as well as the poem itself.

Our illustrative (and favorite) illustrations of truly aesthetic and soul-accessing works of poetry, offered in historical order, are: William Shakespeare’s Sonnet “On Love,” William Wordsworth’s magnificent “Intimations of Immortality,’ and Walt Whitman’s “I Sing the Body Electric.” The experienced, eclectic combination of analogical metaphor, tempo, and depth of meaning, in our estimation, is irrefutably illustrative of truly artistic and legitimate poetics.

The “poetry” ubiquitously appearing in the estimable journals cited rarely contains the above-stated ingredients mandatorily encompassing our perception of the creation of the singular art of poetry. Instead, we are presented with offerings, albeit at times aesthetically worded, purporting to qualify as poetry, by the intentional use of obscure or archaic vocabulary, unorthodox phrasing, and/or length of line with sophomorically suggestive, albeit unattained, (faux) depth. Some of these troubling entries indicate that they are chosen excerpts from entire volumes of “poetry” produced by the dubious “poet.”

We are disappointed and, expressed prosaically, “discombobulated.”

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As predictable as a butterfly’s emergence from its larva, our emotional reaction to the Trump-MAGA Presidency has morphed into a clear and present danger to the endurance of our way of life as well as the American Democratic Republic

The dystopic, un-American Trump Administration has been the subject of too many of our past writings. Trump’s publicly announcd intention to be a dictator, his repudiation of the American Constitution and the Rule of Law, his castigation of the media and institutions of higher education, his interference with the definitial, democratic vote, fomentation of a criminal insurrection and unjust use of the Presidential Pardon, his destructive, imposition of tariffs on on our Nation’s trading partners, the use of his office to unconscionably enhance his family’s wealth, his illegal use of the military to invade the sovereignty of the States, his designation of a private horde of masked “flying monkeys” (ref: Alice in Wonderland) as a Gestapo-style force to intimidate, mistreat and destroy the lives of innocent Hispanic Americans, his cancellation of empathic progams of relief to the needy, both nationally and internationally, his destruction of the Nation’s vitally important health research agencies, his intimate relationships with the tyrannical leaders of the Nation’s recognized enemies and repugnant behavior towrards its allies, including NATO, his ubiquitous lack of moral compass, serial mendacity., his 34 felony convictions and plethora of criminal indictments, held in abeyance by reason of his office, his treasonous purloining of top secret governmental documents, his official adjudications of tax fraud as well as sexual abuse, his innate reality-blinding egocentrism, not to omit his metaphysical incapability, as Chief Executive and his abhorrant personal behavior, have been thematic subjects of past writings.
Donald Trump’s demonstrated dystopic, egocentric persona as relates to his role as President of the United States may be described as empirically distasteful, but more significantly clinically worrisome. The recent, observable, erratic behavior of the Nation’s Chief Executive has empirically transmogrified our earlier feelings of odium to an emotional state of primal fear for the very existence of our Nation and its population, and, conceivably, others. Before the brief recitation of such contextual symptoms of such “clear and present danger,” we would take the liberty of emphasizing that the current erratic President singularly carries with him a card which affords him the irrevocable franchise to make the unimpeachable decision to initiate nuclear war. Imagine the analogy of a rapid-firing weapon in the hands of a drunken and crazed gorilla.

In our earlier attempts at moderating our fears, we chose to perceive the odious actions of Donald J. Trump as egoistically driven ignorance. Recent events have now obliged us to conclude that the Presidency of Donald J. Trump poses an existentially imminent danger. We would once more reprise our terrifying and impactful observation that this orange hazmat has, in his pocket, the nuclear trigger

The first of the two startling events that triggered our contextual fear was Trump’s seemingly endless, sophomoric address, accurately described as a “rant” before the United Nations, which was embarrassingly disjointed and incoherent. It included the delusional statement that he has “made America great again,” along with a myriad of other disconnected, cringeworthy declarations, such as to invest any thoughtful American blush with national shame.

The “final match in the gunpowder barrel ” involved the unprecedented Presidential summons of 800 of the Nation’s senior military leaders to the Capitol for an official meeting; irrespective of the danger of terrorist attack on the venue, the hazardous removal of supervisory officers from their strategic locations, the complex logistics, and the enormous expense incurred.

The awaited “Gettysburg Address” moment, for this historically unprecedented event, saw an incongruous reprise of the endless, disjointed rant delivered before the U.N., containing such deranged observations that he signs Executive Orders with a prominent pen on high-grade, “golden” paper, compared with his “sleepy” predecessor, who uses a cheap pen and ordinary paper.” This starlingly assinine and hubristically articulated boast, and other clinically articulated and diagnosable assertions, were delivered before his summoned, 800 top military leaders of the three branches of the United States Military. We presume that if not for their disciplined military fealty they would have had an appropriate negative response. This proudly declared assertion was typical of the myriad of outlandish rants by the MAGA shaman especially notable in consideration of the singularly unprecedented occasion, inarguably exceeding the boundaries of the adjective, “bizarre”, and revelatorily clinical and potentially disastrous.

Considering such recent indications of the extent of Donald Trump’s dangerous mental infirmity, Congress will aptly deserve the historical blame for the potential effects of Donald Trump’s evident mental derangement, unless it responsibly removes him under Article 25 of the Constitution.

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Prior to his ranting diatribe before the 800 top military officers of the Nation’s Armed Services, we suffered through Donald Trump’s Tourette’s Syndrome-style, delusional remarks to the United Nations, which were singularly unbearable and embarrassing to the Nation. We were premature in our declaration of its exclusivity; his sophomoric rant before the military, notably, exceeded William Shakespeare’s lines in “Macbeth “… a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” (Act V. Sce

The entire world shook its head in the attempt to divine a cause for President Trump’s Secretary of the Department of Defense (now, referred to by the autocratic Administration as the “Department of War”), Pete Hegseth, to issue an official order, summoning the 800 top military leaders of the Nation’s Armed Services to the Capitol for a joint meeting. The substantial security hazard associated with such an exemplary convention in one venue was disquieting, as was the need for the temporary removal of top military personnel from their respective supervisory duties. Of less exigence but of significance was the complicated subject of logistics and required expense..

President Trump’s message, his usual self-serving, long-winded, sophomoric, and interminable rant, revealed no rationale for his irresponsible and egotistically performative convening of the historically bizarre meeting, and demonstrated a Donald Trump rant that may conceivably have exceeded his effus and embarrassingly sophomoric remarks before the U.N.

A cringeworthy sample of Trump’s remarks, before the unprecedented convening of 800 members of the Nation’s top military forces, in addition to being delusional ( “I have stopped seven wars,” ” my penned signature is superior to Biden’s weak one,” ” on gold paper instead of cheap copy, his references to “the” crooked press, the “rigged” 2020 election, the prior weakening of the Nation and its military by “DEI wokeness,” the economically redemptive effects of tariffs, the viciousness of the democrats and irthe deceitful issue of global warning, comments on his “weak,” “sleepy” and crooked”” predecessor, Joeseph Biden, his purported successes in making the Nation strong, inclusive of the more descriptive title “Secretary of War,” in place of Department of Defense,” among his predictably delusional rant.

It is frustrating to be obliged to conclude that the historically unprecedented lincident, with all its implicit complications and dangers, was merely another occasion for our egocentric and insecure Head of State, to performatively reprise his dumpster of tiresome and neurotic delusions; and that the internationally advertised, costly and dangerous event was merely another absurd opportunity for the self-serving, and morally irresponsible President to again reprise his own perceived delusional praises.

We have, yet again, painfully confronted the empirical message that a Trump Presidency, like the optics of a carnival fun mirror, is ubiquitously predictable in its singular distortion of reality.

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Of all the dumpster-full loads of egregious actions, none, in our estimation, equals the asinine irony of Donald Trump’s illegal (ref. posse competitatis) utilization of the National Guard to flaunt his hubristic assertion of monarchial power.

The same has been effected by Trump’s unsupported declarations that certain major cities in the Nation (by sheer coincidence, “blue” voting, black mayorial metropolises) are rife with crime and in need of the military to restore the peace. The respective Governors and Mayors have loudly voiced their opposition to such unconstitutional and autocratic expressions of excess power to no avail. This reprehensible exercise of atavistic-style monarchial power is historically unprecedented and inarguably antithetical to the Nation’s systemic Federal System.

Such egregious policy, while consistent with Trump’s consistent disregard for the Constitution and the American traditional way of life, seems, in principle, to overshadow his plethora of egregious dictates by its exquisite irony and empirical dissonance.

It seems to be of little moment. In the selected cities, publicly declared by Trump to be targeted by the National Guard, the objective data, respectively, demonstrate a notable decrease in the rate of crime; what does seem to matter is Trump’s hubristic assertion of power and thirst for political “retribution.”

The Nation’s previous violent and bloody insurrection was terminated only when requested by its instigating source, Trump, himself. Yet, the truly telling dynamics and nature of the violent event were unquestionably and incriminatory articulated by Trump’s indication of gratitude and his arbitrary grant of pardon to the violent participants, responsible for death, great injury to Capitol policemen, intimidation of the legislators and staff, present during the riot as well as property damage to historical artifacts. More to our contextual point, Donald Trump, pending the lengthy course of the bloody violence ( nor thereafter) of which he was the inciter and director, did not deem it appropriate to have the Washington, D.C. National Guard called in by the authorities to quell the uprising

The disturbing facts referenced in this writing indicate Trump’s egocentric and ignorant delusion that the military’s assigned role in our Democratic Republic is to act as a Royal Guard dedicated to monarchical compliance. The notable distinction is that, while Trump egoistically aspires to the status of worshipped royalty, in reality, he empirically replicates the status of a deluded and hubristic neurotic.

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The Wistful Vista Pharmaceutical Company has announced the development of a newly formulated “miracle” tonic, “Re-Ignition.” The subject product is a revolutionary supplement, purportedly indicated for individuals naturally lacking in inherited cognitive function. (“I.Q..”). The new product, like most pharmaceuticals, will be marketed universally through television commercials to be broadcast on all channels except NPR ( where the demand is assumed to be less urgent).

Dramatic testimonials promoting the sale of the miraculous elixir have been produced and widely broadcast; illustrative examples are listed below:

Mr. Selwin Dumnkoff of Atlanta, Georgia, pictured, standing before a library suitcase, ” I am a user of the fruit-flavored tonic, ‘Re-Ignition’, and within five days of first use developed the desire to read classic novels and educational pamphlets, opening up new vistas to me, and adding to the personal value of my life,”

Ms. Elvira Snarl of Roanoke, Virginia, happily declared that the tonic, pleasantly tasting of fresh mango, made her forgo her lifetime reservations about reading newspapers and staying informed of current political events, and, consequently and beneficially, formulating a personal view on contemporary political issues.

Willie Lump-Lump of Atlanta, Georgia, waxed enthusiastic concerning his newly developed acumen in the sport of Chinese Checkers, becoming a leading contender in his county,

Mitzi Needlenose crowed about her newly discovered acumen in knitting initialed designer socks for her fellow congregants at Hapless Evangelical Church, the new capability resulting from her daily practice of drinking Bombay gin mixed with ” Re-Ignition.”

Louise Wu, of Manhattan, New York, testified to her newfound ability, thanks to taking the miraculous tonic, to effectively communicate in classic Mandarin with Yiddish-speaking American immigrants from Belarus, and,

Victor Vassuvian of Armenia, New York, happily declared that, thanks to the tonic, he was now able to play all five Brandenburg Concertos and The Well-Tempered Clavier of Bach. on his balalaika.

The jars of Re-ignation Tonic, however, notably contain an FDA warning that the regenerative tonic should not be taken by MAGA supporters and their families, for fear that it might lead to extreme hives and morbid constipation; anecdotal cases of migraine headaches and hallucinations, in such cases, have been anecdotally reported.

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At the Annual Fall Shareholders Meeting of the Silicon Valley computer research and sales corporation, “Wistful Future Development Co., Inc”. the President and CEO, Ingersall Ira (“i.. P,”) Daly, proudly announced the successful completion of a company-owned, newly developed algorithm, applicable to the entire universe of television viewers, to be licensed worldwide and predictably destined to be ,immensely profitable.

The Chairman explained that after three years of intensive research and tireless digital experimentation, its junior computer engineer, Vladimir G. Borscht, a recent immigrant from Belarus (and the third son of a famous Russian Chef), had successfully created a new and innovative algorithm, affording television viewers the revolutionary ability to experience the ambient odors of watched televised films or public events. The new facility, he continued, will be equipped with responsive adjustments, {“Apps”) flexibly adjustable, relative to the viewers’ nuanced olfactory sensitivities, tastes, or extant allergies. The jubilant Chief Executive announced that this miraculous program will bear the international brand name, “Smellovision.”

Within six months of its production and initial sale, the innovative program proved to be in universal demand by the television industry, demonstrating ratings far beyond any previous optimistic predictions. The new olfactory capability was so successful in its application to television commercials, notably, pizza, colognes, cosmetics, deodorants, air fresheners, shampoos, soaps, and condiments, that the corporation was literally swamped with urgent requests for licenses for the new app. The profits of this new facility were enormous and growing in exponential figures. Mr. Vladimir G. Borscht, now a celebrity whose name was suitably changed to
“Val G. Bush “was promoted to Vice President of the Corporation’s new Smellivision subsidiary and given Common Stock in the Parent Corporation.

Thereafter, the television consumer, for a modest annual fee, was treated to an enhanced sense of realism, thereby enhancing his movie viewing experience. The adjustable scent of the movie’s particular ambience, such as the smell of “curry” during Indian films, “garlic during movies dealing with the Italian Mafia, “gunpowder” during Clint Eastwood’s Spaghetti Westerns, “beer” in saloon scenes, ” fresh chocolate” while watching Willie Wonka, now had the franchise of personal choice of scent, as desired, as well as movie narrative. Needless to say, the demonstrative appeal of a fragrant consumer product boosted commercial sales in exponential volumes.

The New York Stock Market price for Wistful Vista Common Stock rose in proportion to its ever-increasing sales and profitability. Incidentally, we are pleased to report that the new millionaire, Vladimir G. Borscht ( now, “Val G. Bush”), was married to the granddaughter of the Board, the beautiful Kysme Daly, and, at the time of this writing, the happy couple had been blessed with two children, a daughter and a son, “Rose” and “Woody” Bush.

Life was happy for the new family, whose mutual love and good fortune were ideal, until a tragic event occurred. Val was in one of the corporation’s television studios when an official call from Washington was announced. It was the imperious, Eichmann-like Advisor to the President, Stephen Miller, himself, who advised Val that Donald Trump does not like the hamburger commercials and directed their removal. Miller smilingly continued, “And if you do not comply, I will have you deported back to Belarus, and at least one of your children will be banished to El Salvador.” Val was rendered into a state of shock and extreme fear and hung up the telephone.

By chance, the menacing telephone interaction was mechanically captured on a nearby open television camera and inadvertently broadcast to the public. Within minutes, the telephones in the White House were besieged with hundreds of protesting calls from Smellovision customers, private and commercial. The cruel threat delivered by the sadistically smiling Stephen Miller was summarily withdrawn with Jimmy Kimmel speed. Anecdotally, the automatic television recording of the cogent Miller admonition was seldom viewed by television consumers for both aesthetic and, equally, odiferous reasons.

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