Are you ready for an extra dose of the Weekly GV? Ready or not, here it comes. Gore Vidal viewed Tricky Dick with an appalled fascination. It resulted in Vidal’s 1972 play, An Evening With Richard Nixon. I’ll let the … Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: An Evening With Richard Nixon
UPDATE WE DID IT HOLY CRAP GUYS! $750 raised for the St. Hyacinth Food Pantry! You did it again! So many kids are going to have a wonderful holiday because of you all. Our Internet is the best Internet. OH HAI remember the food pantry we raised money for after the 2016 election? Remember how many families you helped to feed? IT WAS 300 FAMILIES. The pantry’s been working hard and serving even more families in the past 2 years, and now they have a new project. Every year at the holidays they put together a bunch of gift packages … Continue reading DO SOMETHING Merry Edition
For God’s sake describing things that occur are YOUR WHOLE ENTIRE JOB, LESTER: The Baraboo School District is responding to a photo being shared thousands of times on social media of young men with their arms extended in the air appearing to give the Nazi salute. https://t.co/yV61KUaURX@RonMott has the details tonight on @NBCNightlyNews. — NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) November 12, 2018 Emphasis mine. I get that they are using this evasive weasel language to avoid being wrong, but a) that is not actually the worst thing ever on earth and b) WHAT OTHER POSSIBLE EXPLANATION IS THERE … Continue reading Appearing To
It was quite a week for president* Trump. He pitched fit after fit, tantrum after tantrum. He confirmed that his picture is in the dictionary next to narcissist. He claims to have “won” the midterms, if so, he is an even sorer winner than usual. And his foray to France was the worst presidential* trip abroad since his trip to Helsinki. Trump proved over and over again why I call him the Insult Comedian. He confuses bluster with bravery, whinging with winning, invective with courage. It is not courageous to berate Jim Acosta and revoke his press credentials. Acosta *is* … Continue reading Profiles In Phony Courage
OK – airlocks SHUT!
Exhaust fans at 120%!
Let’s go!
OFFICIAL (Live) MIDTERM ELECTION RETURNS THREAD, 2018
All of us, and God too. | 11/6/2018 | All of usPosted on 11/6/2018, 10:01:19 AM by Lazamataz
It is my birthday today, so I get to post the live thread. 🙂
Lucky you.
Give me a good birthday present today! Giftwrap me a Republican House and Senate,
and a Republican GA Governor.And if you recall last time, the more I complained about random things, the better we did. Perhaps I shall do that today.And most of all, PRAY. Prayer works.
To: CatOwner
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To: Ravi
I need to see some good news for Red or i am going to loose(sic) my lunch
821 posted on 11/6/2018, 6:05:27 PM by Texas4ever
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Now DeSantis down. What happened?
1,057 posted on 11/6/2018, 6:36:41 PM by MayflowerMadam (“Do not discount anything in which Donald Trump is involved.” – Rush Limbaugh)
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Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – election night thread !”
The things Slade puts up with, honestly: A. Continue reading Sunday Catblogging
When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache. The sense of weight persists. And so with Paris. Not at once did the city rejoice openly. It prayed first, and then it counted the sore spots, and they were many. And it was dazed, too. There had been no time to discount peace in advance. The streets filled at once, but at first it was with a chastened people. Audrey herself felt numb and unreal. She moved mechanically with the shifting crowd, looking overhead as a captured German plane flew by, trying … Continue reading The Silence of the Guns
I’m keeping this week’s outing snappy because the time change has messed me up. My sleep patterns have been disrupted, as a result I’ve been groggier than hell. Additionally, Della and Paul do not respect day light savings time and demand to be fed at odd hours. Oddly enough, such oddity will inevitably impact Odds & Sods.
A quick note on the featured image. I cheated on Jasper Johns with a 1961 flag painting by William N. Copley aka CPLY. I think the think flag fits this moment eerily well. The country needs more thinking and fewer hot takes right now. Why are people bleating over Tucker Carlson when there are babies in cages?
This week’s theme song was written in 1956 for the musical Mr. Wonderful by Larry Bock, George David Weiss, and Larry Holofcener. I selected Too Close For Comfort because of all the votes that are still being counted, especially in Florida, Arizona, and California.
We have two versions for your listening pleasure: Frank Sinatra with the Billy May Orchestra, and a fabulous Ella Fitzgerald-Joe Williams duet with the Count Basie Orchestra. You know that I love me some Bill Basie.
Now we’ve gotten way too close for comfort, it’s time to jump to the break but first a reminder that Too Close For Comfort was also the title of a long-running Ted Knight sitcom that I watched only once.
Continue reading “Saturday Odds & Sods: Too Close For Comfort”
It’s not over until it’s over in a Florida election. Election weirdness has been discovered in heavily Democratic Broward County where there were some 24K fewer ballots cast for the Senatorial candidates than Goober guys, Gillum and DeSantis. Oops. This could be incompetence instead of Brian Kemp-style fuckery but that remains unclear. What is clear that we’re in for a good old fashioned political brawl ala the 2000 Gore-Bush recount battle. Will there be a second Brooks Brothers riot without Roger Stone to stage it? Josh Marshall focused on the Governor Bat Boy factor: Things are getting ugly fast in … Continue reading Florida’s Gotta Florida
Even by feline standards, Paul Drake is a creature of habit. This is his latest perch: Continue reading Friday Catblogging: Purple Reign
Adrastos on the slow motion Saturday Night Massacre. Continue reading The Fog Of Scandal: More Trouble Every Day
This is another search driven post. I asked Mr. Google to show me paperback covers with blue in them. Nice job, virtual sir. One reason I like Blue Mascara Tears is that it reminds me of one of my favorite … Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Blue Mascara Tears
I can’t let go of my beloved tick tock image of Harold Lloyd in Safety Last. I decided to give it an encore after a long night of watching/following the election returns. It still aptly describe the state of a … Continue reading Campaign Notes: Split Decision
I thought of Sue and Kim this morning: They were standing by a lamp post, this middle-aged couple. They could have been my parents, in another life. They could have been yours. Sue and Kim. He retired after 33 years working for the state. She still worked for the state, on a temporary contract that kept getting extended. They’d had pay freezes for half a dozen years, when they didn’t have pay cuts. They weren’t getting wealthy on their pensions. They weren’t sporting $60 haircuts. They lived in a small town. They were trying to hold on to what they … Continue reading You Can Run On For a Long Time
Van closed. Thank you all for being here and I’m sorry the interface was so glitchy. A. Continue reading ELECTION NIGHT CRACK VAN
I voted last week, voted early, to get it out of the way and not have to worry about getting up early or staying out late. I’m coming to the end of a serious hell-period at work and Mr. A is leaving tonight for a week overseas, and the time change is fucking with Kick’s sleep in a way it never has before, and it didn’t seem sensible to leave this to chance. I didn’t expect it to make me feel like a superhero or anything. I’ve been in the streets every other weekend, family beside me, against misogyny and … Continue reading Go Tell That Long Tongue Liar
It’s election day. It’s time to vote the rascals out and support the good guys. The next Congress is going to look very different given how many Democratic women are running. There *will* be a midterm Crack Van. I got … Continue reading Election Countdown: Time Has Come Today
The reason I’ve always been optimistic about the midterms is that Americans like divided government. I prefer Democratic control of all the political branches but most Americans like checks and balances, especially with an unbalanced president*. The electorate appears poised … Continue reading Campaign Notes: The Homestretch
OK folks – got in the old minivan (hey, I have to haul the world’s second-biggest bass rig, so don’t judge) barefoot Friday, misjudged the height of the bottom door jamb, and managed to sprain (or break) the two middle toes on my right foot.
So – this one will be a brief collection of single posts – first up – Sleeper Agent man!
(on the MAGAbomber, after another freeper goes all Derp State)
To: Cowboy BobSounds like a sleeper agent.
His cover being steroid injecting crazy meathead living in a crazy van covered in stickers for years and going from one arrest to another?
Wow, he’s really, really good.
BREAKING REPORT — **EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS** : Special Counsel and Former FBI Director Robert…The Gateway Pundit ^ | October 30, 2018 | Jim Hoft Posted on 10/30/2018, 4:01:25 PM by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: BREAKING REPORT — **EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS** : Special Counsel and Former FBI Director Robert Mueller Accused of Rape By ‘Very Credible Witness ‘
Special Counsel Robert Mueller was accused by a very credible witness today of rape at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City in 2010.
A formal press conference is scheduled for Thursday at noon in Washington DC.
Jack Burkman @Jack_Burkman Some sad news. On Thursday, November 1, at the Rosslyn Holiday Inn at noon, we will reveal the first of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sex assault victims. I applaud the courage and dignity and grace and strength of my client. 11:15 AM – Oct 30, 2018 2,726 9,053 people are talking about this
What we know: The woman is a “very credible witness.” Her story are corroborated. The incident happened in 2010 in New York City. The woman is a professional.
We will post the document shortly.
The Mueller apologists are already trashing the accuser — and don’t even know who she is!
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Now we know why Mueller leaked the story that women were being paid to accuse him of rape to inoculate him against the real rape charges that were about to break.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Now it appears that Mueller was in DC on jury duty at the time of the alleged assault.
“Robert Mueller dutifully doing his jury duty in D.C. Superior Court on Monday. The FBI director (with an ear-pieced security guy in tow) made it all the way into the jury box for voir dire on a gun-possession case and got a warm smile from the judge … but he was quickly excused (the “work in law enforcement?” question seemed to do it).
By The Reliable Source | August 3, 2010; 1:00 AM ET”http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2010/08/hey_isnt_that_robert_mueller_r.html
Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – one hit wonders edition”
The next-door neighbors put pumpkins out, and a particularly noisy squirrel went to town on them shortly before Halloween. Ada likes to sit on the stairs watching him and muttering darkly about what she’ll do once she finally escapes her unjust captivity: A. Continue reading Sunday Catblogging: Ada & Her Nemesis
Both sides don’t do it, you have real choices, and it’s time to suck it up and do your damn jobs, everyone: Trump has his accomplishments and his fans, and I gainsay him neither. He is not alone in using hate, in overreacting. But the truth is, no one in Trump’s party has the stomach to stand up to him anymore. Not even Paul Ryan, who in the final moments as House speaker dared to suggest that Trump can’t magically repeal the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship. Trump smashed him down, and his party’s sheeple watched. The GOP, especially those in … Continue reading One Last Thing We’ve All Still Got
It’s been an uneasy week in the Big Easy. There’s much outrage at the local utility company, Entergy, for hiring actors to attend City Council meetings. The company has made it worse by continuing to lie about it. It’s called Astroturfing, it’s not illegal it’s just sleazy. The more Entergy lies, the longer the story persists. Lying seems to be contagious in the age of Trump. Knock it off, y’all.
In other Gret Stet news, we’re voting on a constitutional amendment to end non-unanimous jury verdicts. Louisiana and Oregon are the only two states that have this system and we’re in a race for repeal. The odds are good that voters will end the practice next Tuesday: there’s broad bi-partisan support for the change. It’s good when the Gret Stet good guys win one. In fact, it’s great. Hopefully, that Tony the Tiger-ish sentiment will help LSU when they play Alabama tonight. Geaux Tigers.
This week’s theme song, Running On Empty, was written and recorded by Jackson Browne in 1977. It’s been used in two movies: Forrest Gump and gave Sidney Lumet’s great 1988 movie its title. We’ll have more about *that* Running On Empty after the jump.
We have two versions for your listening pleasure. Both feature brilliant lap steel playing by the great David Lindley of whom I’ll have more to say at the end of the post. Holy previews, Batman.
We may be low on gas but there’s enough in the tank to jump to the break.
4 days until the midterms.
Tick tock, motherfuckers. Continue reading Campaign Notes: Running Scared
I really should not do back-to-back box posts but this picture is impossible to overlook: Continue reading Friday Catblogging: It’s Always Boxing Day For PD
It’s time for our good friends Lloyd and Floyd as in Harold and Pink: Continue reading Election Countdown Time
Willie McCovey, 1938-2018. Continue reading Willie McCovey, R.I.P.
I was green with envy upon learning that Athenae had met the great crime fiction writer Walter Mosly. It inspired me to bend the rules of my pulp fiction universe and do a more recent book: 1991 in this instance. … Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Devil In A Blue Dress