Week #100 of the Trump Era started on Pearl Harbor Day, a day of solemn remembrance for most of us, but more of a reenactment for Donald Trump. Friday began with Trump throwing himself another pity party on Twitter, whimpering about Comey, Mueller, Cohen, the Clintons, the Clinton Foundation, his former Secretary of State and …
WEEK #100 OF THE TRUMP ERA IN REVIEW, FRIDAY, 12/7//18 TO THURSDAY, 12/13/18 Read More »
The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has been following the Occupy Wall Street movement, a popular protest against corporate greed and criminal business practices, as well as the responses of opponents of the movement. The protesters call themselves the 99%, referring to the fact that 1% of Americans are hogging all the money …
DOPOTO REPORTS: IT’S GOOD TO BE KING! WHILE IT LASTS. Read More »
The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has been working overtime to absorb the global chaos that has thus far marked the year 2011. Researchers, senior analysts and interns alike have been barraged by reports of the odd, the unsettling, the surprising and the utterly catastrophic. Our earnest efforts to fulfill our only function …
DOPOTO REPORTS: IT’S 2011, AND PASSAGE IS BEING BOOKED IN THE HAND BASKET TO HELL Read More »
At the Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO), researchers and senior analysts alike have been immersed in the exciting developments in the Middle East. First Tunisians ousted their government, followed swiftly by Egypt, which overthrew 30 years of Hosni Mubarek’s oppressive dictatorship in just 18 peaceful days. Now the nations of Bahrain, Iran, Algeria, …
DOPOTO REPORTS: DEMOCRACY TAKING WING. CAN NEW YORK CITY BE FAR BEHIND? Read More »
The Department Of Pointing Out the Obvious (DOPOTO) welcomes human behavioral scientists into the fold. In a study of adolescent brains, it has been discovered that human teenagers’ brains are not fully developed, thus impairing their judgement. For which the Department is tempted to nominate these brainiacs for our coveted Golden “Duh!” Award. While scientists …
DOPOTO REPORTS: SCIENCE CONFIRMS THE OBVIOUS – TEENAGERS MAKE LOUSY DECISIONS Read More »
The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has had an easy time of it lately. Not that there has been a flood of good news or anything else so unusual, it’s just that the job of The Department is merely to point out the obvious, whether there is good news, bad news or neutral …
DOPOTO REPORTS: THINGS THAT DON’T COME AS A SHOCK Read More »
The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO), the world’s foremost organization for not interpreting anything, has been as busy as ever keeping track of reality. Our job is simple, to observe and report. Not so simple, however, is sifting through attempts to explain away reality with “alternate explanations,” in effect telling people that what …
DOPOTO REPORTS: WHAT IS, IS. A GUIDE TO THE EMPEROR’S NEW WARDROBE Read More »
The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO), in our only capacity, that of drawing attention to what should need no explanation, cannot help but notice that the nation of Canada has emerged briefly from its self-imposed exile to host the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. For two weeks, Canada will occupy a most unaccustomed position, …
The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO), in the course of performing our our only function, pointing out the emperor’s new clothes, has been perusing the various sensational news reports concerning the election of a single senator in Massachusetts. The Senate seat in question had belonged to the late Senator Teddy Kennedy for 47 …
The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO), at the risk of rendering ourselves obsolete, has prepared this report to show the public exactly what it is we do. What we do, as our title so blatantly announces, is point out what is readily apparent in this world, in spite of the very many earnest …
