Everybody was wrong about the Trump phenomenon. I know that I was. And while I still don’t think he’ll be the first Insult Comedian elected President, I’m not as confident of that outcome as I was a few months ago. It’s been that weird of a campaign. It’s like 1968 and 1992 rolled into one. It looks as if the Donald is poised to take the GOP nomination and continue nattering on about his steaks, wine, bottled water, hotels, casinos, and scam university. Even in this weird year, last night’s victory monologue was genuinely bizarre. That brings me to the Stop Trump … Continue reading #NeverTrump: Too Little Too Late
Are you ready for more War? The band, not the thing that John Bolton mongers… The World Is A Ghetto was a number-one hit 1972 album with a tongue in the cheek cover by Howard Miller. The single cover featured a … Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: The World Is A Ghetto
It’s about all of us: The response to this crisis needs to go far beyond providing potable water to Flint residents. It needs to go beyond providing financial grants to local government and community organizations. The challenge, in a nutshell, is to channel this country’s considerable business, industrial, intellectual, and financial power toward rebuilding the city of Flint. Why Flint, you may ask, when many other cities are suffering under similar economic and social conditions? The answer: because Flint is the city where the disinvestment, dysfunction, and neglect got so bad that children were poisoned. We could do this with … Continue reading Flint’s Water Isn’t About Flint
Poor pookie: Every negative stereotype I have tried to combat for the last 8 years about republicans has been utterly destroyed in the past 9 months. — Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) March 4, 2016 I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it until someone listens: THE ONLY PEOPLE DISMAYED ABOUT THE STATE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE THOSE DEPENDENT ON IT FOR A DOLLAR. If you make your living, as many center-right columnists do, pretending that you belong not to some frothing mob of religious bigots but to the party of Dwight David Eisenhower First of His Name, then you … Continue reading Aww, Are Republicans Bumming You Out, Republicans?
A candidate for Supreme Court justice in Wisconsin, as a college student in 1992: In a Feb. 28, 1992, letter, Bradley wrote that “Heterosexual sex is very healthy in a loving marital relationship. Homosexual sex, however, kills,” referring to the transfer of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. She also wrote in a Feb. 11, 1992, letter, “Perhaps AIDS awareness should seek to educate us with their misdirected compassion for the degenerates who basically commit suicide through their behavior.” In a Nov. 11, 1992, column, she wrote that “One will be better off contracting AIDS than developing cancer, because those … Continue reading The Queers
My sidekick post with its Cisco Kid reference put this song featuring War as Eric Burdon’s sidekicks/sidemen in my head. I only hope the wine in question wasn’t red: Continue reading Monday Night Music: Spill The Wine
Hi, good people! I’ve been trying to take a week off for several weeks now, but current events forbade. Since not much (other than the Bundy Bunch all getting jailed, and we’ll get to that next Monday) has happened this week, my being a lazy bastard plan is in full effect. In the meantime, please enjoy this pic of the Brillo-beast, and know that she whimpers for joy. Come to think of it, she whimpers all the time (I thought she had been abused when we first got her from rescue), so it’s not that big a deal. Continue reading Taking a little break – back next Monday
I can practically see this from my house: Two hours after news of the rally broke, a petition on MoveOn.org to keep Trump out of UIC had been created and garnered more than 300 signatures. The anti-Trump protest already had 1,600 RSVPs as of 7 p.m. The organizers of the Facebook protest are encouraging people to sign up for free tickets to the Trump rally to keep the tickets out of hands of Trump supporters. It’s up to 7,000 going now. Also? LOLOLOL: The developer whose name is emblazoned on one of the city’s most notable towers has only raised $8,616 from Chicagoans so far in the campaign, … Continue reading Who Wants to Be My Date for the Friday Trump Protest?
If you guessed it would take Fox News commenters less than two screens to start a monkey-shit fight in the comments of her obit, congrats, the entire world! To Cruz and Trump supporters, be warned. Both sides will lose if they enter National in July without enough delegates! This what the Establishment is hoping for, that way they can pick their own! — LIBERALISM=A VIRULENT CANCER GROWING ON AND KILLING US — A first lady who didn’t abuse her position in life! Nine months to go and the White House will have new tenants ! A. Continue reading Nancy Reagan, 1921-2016
The scary thing about Trump is not what if he wins, but what if he loses? I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’ll put everything I have including my body on the wheels to make sure that happens, but I’m starting to think we need some kind of plan for these people: They’re riled and they’re pissed, and it’s not that they’re wrong to be. Their jobs have gone away, their houses are full of lead and asbestos, their neighborhoods aren’t good enough for grocery stores or restaurants, their schools have holes in the roofs and water in the basements, … Continue reading Where Do Trump Supporters Go From Here?
Favorite comfort food? Between a hideous back injury that knocked me out the first half of February, and back-to-back colds/flu/respiratory infections since what feels like November, I’ve lost about 10 pounds. BEST DIET EVER! It’s actually terrible, in that yeah, clothes fit again but I feel like shit all the time. Food doesn’t appeal in any way. What do you like to eat when you’re feeling run down or need something cozy? A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread
Music in the Tuileries Gardens by Edouard Manet via The National Gallery, London
It’s primary day here in the Gret Stet of Louisiana. I don’t expect surprises on either side unless Ted Cruz uses his proximity as a creep from Texas to beat the creep from New York. There aren’t enough white lefties for Bernie Sanders to do better here than in other Southern states as pointed out in this tweet:
From New Orleans this picture from today shows how well Bernie will do with Black vote on Saturday in Louisiana pic.twitter.com/FxPl4aDsao
After a closer examination, I spotted one African-American guy holding the R sign. I guess you can add Bernie Sanders to the list of things white people like.
I used the Manet painting as the featured image so I could tell a cat story. Really. While a college student, I named a black cat after the artist. I don’t recall why but I did. I’m one of those demented cat people who likes talking to my kitties. My shtick with Manet was to play comparative artists. I’d ask her, “who do you like better, Picasso or Manet?” The answer was invariably “Manet.” Admittedly, I supplied the answer but what cat wouldn’t prefer themselves to Miro, Magritte, or even Monet? End of crazy cat person story.
This week’s theme song was written in 1935 by the English songwriting team of Jack Strachey and Eric Maschwitz. Oddly enough, I discovered this wonderfully wistful tune as the title track and closing number of a 1973 album by Bryan Ferry. I’m posting that version along with a killer 1936 rendition by Billie Holiday with the Teddy Wilson Orchestra.
Teacher Leigh Anne Arthur was essentially given a “quit or we will fire you” order from her bosses in the Union County School District this week after a student found a nude photo of Arthur on her cell phone and passed it around the school. The student stole the phone off of Arthur’s desk while Arthur was out of the room for five minutes to monitor the “passing period” at the school. Arthur has been put into the unenviable position of having to explain that, yes, there was a nude photo of her on the phone and that, yes, she … Continue reading In other news, rape victim blamed for not having vagina guarded by Pinkertons…
For some reason the man who still wants to be our first robot President decided to do a bit of mud wrestling with the Donald today. Mittbot’s speech was actually pretty decent but it won’t work. The Trumpers, or whatever we’re calling the Insult Comedian’s supporters, think Willard is a pompous stuffed shirt and, worse, a LOSER. They’re correct: he’s run and lost twice. Here’s a chip off the old Mittbot hard drive: “Here’s what I know. Donald Trump is a phony. A fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University,” Romney continued. “He’s playing the American … Continue reading Insult Comedian to Willard Mittbot Romney: Blow Me
I selected this week’s cover because the book has a swell title. Then I learned that it was part of the highly successful Honey West series, which became a teevee show in 1965. You learn something new every day: Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Dig A Dead Doll
Cuban-Mexican bandleader Perez Prado was best known for light-hearted, danceable mambos. It was interesting, therefore, to learn that he’d done a two serious pieces of music Voodoo Suite and Exotic Suite of the Americas, which were combined in this 2 … Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: Voodoo Suite
It starts now. She is going to clean his fucking clock. There will be nothing left of him when she’s done. I don’t know what she’s on, I really don’t, but I want some of it. She’s like twice my age, and I crawl home from my office job every night with barely enough energy to let Kick pile all her stuffed animals on me as I lay on the floor, and Hillary is doing 300 events a week and everybody there feels like she cares about them. I can’t even convince Claire I care about her at the end of … Continue reading Forward, Now
If only there were people who are highly paid and so much more experienced than the stupid kids. Those people could be tasked with communicating with voters, organizing them, getting them to the polls … nah, probably just easier to write lecture-y stories about how dumb young voters are. Amazing to me that this strategy doesn’t result in rafts of enthusiastic young voters. I know I can always convert people to my point of view when I start by calling them stupid! A. Continue reading Get Off My Lawn Sign: You Kids Don’t Understand How Voting Works!
Social media is also probably to blame for “sensationalizing” their racist taunting, says sports reporter in the year of our Lord Jesus Chickenfried Christ 2016: … Bishop Noll won the game 56-52, but Andrean won the headlines. How? By using racially-charged cheering tactics made popular by a GOP presidential frontrunner. In Andrean’s cheering section, a handful of impassioned super-fan students hoisted a large Fathead photo of Trump, along with a sign stating “ESPN DEPORTES.” This echoes Trump’s campaign rhetoric against illegal immigrants and his promise to build a wall along the Mexican border. “Build a wall!” Andrean students yelled to … Continue reading Racist Kids are Just Being Racist Kids!
