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Jun 22 2018
George Will is not suddenly a good guy.
Among other things he knows nothing about Baseball. Vote against the GOP this November by George Will, Washington Post June 22, 2018 Amid the carnage of Republican misrule in Washington, there is this glimmer of good news: The family-shredding policy along the southern border, the most telegenic recent example of misrule, clarified something. Occurring less …
Jun 22 2018
Friday Date Night Funnies
Sigh. Once again Republicans with super sexy florescent prison palors (closer than you think guys) and perverted fantasies you have to pay extra for (but they won’t because they’re not just thieves but poor tippers) are complaining that acquaintances who have to tolerate them at work but realistically fear that any off site interaction will …
Jun 22 2018
Affirmations of Sanity
So I was listening to Morning Joe because I fell asleep during Rachel or Chris or Lawrence and I heard something that struck me from, of all people, Donny Deutsch. Donny’s not the most liberal guy in the world (Morning Joe is not the most liberal program) and that’s probably why it hit me with …
Jun 21 2018
Why aren’t we talking about Impeachment?
Well, the real reason is Washington D.C. is full of thieves and liars who ought to be in jail and they’re afraid if we get in the habit they won’t be safe any more. That’s it. Corruption is proven. Treasonous Collusion with a Hostile Nation is proven. Conspiracy is proven. Obstruction of Justice is proven. …
Jun 21 2018
Cartnoon
Why am I not on “social” media? Well, first of all, I am on social media. I’ve been blogging for 13 years, over 7,000 posts, more than 2 a day, every day. Did I mention they’re exactly the same? The days I mean. I have at least 6 distinct writing styles exclusive of my Faulkner …
Jun 20 2018
“How much for the little girl?”
The women. How much for the women? What? The women. I want to buy your women. The little girl, your daughters. Sell them to me. Sell me your children! There’s this seafood joint I go to with TMC sometimes because it has the 4th best Mussels I’ve ever had (the best ones are served in …
Jun 19 2018
Life in Oświęcim
(from Wikipedia) Prisoners were transported from all over German-occupied Europe by rail, arriving in daily convoys. By July 1942, the SS were conducting “selections”. Incoming Jews were segregated; those deemed able to work were sent to the selection officer’s right and admitted into the camp, and those deemed unfit for labor were sent to the …
Jun 18 2018
Smashing Pottery
It’s hard to start describing the history of China without noting how very old and organized it is. Indeed “older than the Pyramids” which sit in an incredibly run down piece of Cairo barely large enough for you to frame your disgusting camel (they are terrible brutes who spit on you with much more regularity …