Thursday, August 06, 2020

Useful Idiot

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Let's thump the deceased equine one last time for good measure -- if you're buying his music, or his clothes, or any of the other c...

This Is Us

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However this movie ends -- and while my prediction wavers week-to-week, I think Biden squeaks through, though it will definitely get much u...
Saturday, August 01, 2020

Subverting Norms

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Lately I find myself thinking back frequently to a classic Norm Macdonald bit, about a homeless guy who has a dog with him. (Bear in mind t...
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Thursday, July 30, 2020

Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes

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I had been wondering earlier in the week if Herman Cain, who had been hospitalized since shortly after attending Orange Foolius' COVID ...
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Monday, July 20, 2020

For the Millionth Time, Kanye West is a Piece of Shit

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Maybe at one time in the very distant past, it was a goof, but it hasn't been for years. He's an awful person. If you give him any ...

Idiots and Assholes

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Hoarse Whisperer has been one of my favorite reads on Twitter for some time now, and this post is one reason why , because I've made th...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

Desaparecidos

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If it is necessary to turn the country into a cemetery in order to pacify it, I will not hesitate to do so. -- Colonel Carlos Manuel Arana ...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Self-Cancelling

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I suppose the big "news" of the day is the back-to-back resignations of Bari Weiss and Andrew Sullivan, from the NY Times and Ne...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

The Questions You Didn't Ask

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Not really questions, so much as a suggestion and an observation. Suggestion:   Maybe one of these reportin' types, when asking Trump...
Sunday, July 12, 2020

Promotional Item

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I don't plug a lot of things (giggity), but when I do, I bloody well mean it, so listen up:  Don Winslow is an outstanding author and a...

Job Qualification, Slight Return: Dereliction of Duty

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Per the previous post , Adam Davidson has a brief explanatory follow-up as to why and how the money-laundering sausage doesn't get ma...
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Job Qualification

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If you're not too broken up at or distracted by the invisible perfidies of, ah, cancel culture, here's an interesting thread from t...
Thursday, July 09, 2020

A Serious Man

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This disjointed, rambling "interview" with 'murka's most notorious celeb mental patient -- well, he's not a "pa...
Saturday, July 04, 2020

Wasted Motion

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So here's an interesting dynamic, becoming more and more commonplace: Trump breaks the routine tedium of saying and doing stupid thin...
Friday, July 03, 2020

The Murder of Elijah McClain

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The more you read about the details of Elijah McClain's murder , the more unsettling it really is, both in the crime itself, and the la...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

The Republican Party Hates America

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You sell your oldest friends, you sold your countrymen And yet we know your name....  Motörhead, Traitor I long ago gave up on the New Y...

Economic Anxiety

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I parked my truck and sat in the gallery during the morning session of the legislature. I watched the regard with which Bobby Earl was trea...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Represent

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These days, I can't really muster the energy necessary to get too boiled about this sort of shit , mainly because it is entirely expect...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Summer of Stupid

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Because the US has a constant surplus of genuinely stupid, credulous dupes who rilly rilly care about shit, but simply cannot be bothered ...