Christmas Holiday Open Thread: The Mumps

[Jack Foster illustration for “Santa Has the Mumps” by Sharon Sala]

I simply want to let it be known that insipid Jimmy Fallon’s insipid “couple name” for Donald Trump and Elon Musk — “Elonald” — is NOT the official couple name, as anyone with an operating sense of humor should already know.

By Orange Juice Blog decree, their official couple name is: “The Mumps.” This is appropriate in too many ways to express here.

This is a regular Open Thread. Standard Neshanian Rules apply and will be enforced viciously and disproportionately. Have fun, have a fulfilling Festivus, air grievances that don’t involve how women of color and intrinsically racist (Eric), along with whatever other holiday(s) of your choice you celebrate.

About Greg Diamond

Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)