Well, first of all, Witches are made of wood, just like Pinocchio. It’s a fair cop. But I do think a system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama where people are still getting ringworm because they don’t have access to public health is wrong. And I think it’s wrong that …
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Jan 31 2019
Way Back When
Let me tell you about Internet Years. They’re kind of like Dog Years where the cliché goes that every Human Year is the same as 7 Dog Years which is fair enough actually when you consider the rate they develop from bumbling (but cute) Puppies to rather fragile and elderly companions. Most Dogs live about …
Jan 31 2019
About Eczema
Sigh, not my best moment. From the time I was about 11 until I was 15 or 16 I suffered from severe Eczema on my feet and legs and also my arms. It was pretty terrible. My skin would slough off in sheets leaving weeping red welts. I itched constantly. Skin moisteners and Cortisone had …
Jan 30 2019
An Apple A Day Is… OK.
Gah- it’s an abbreviation for Oklahoma stupid spellcheck! Anyway, in Some More News– Somebody comes into our country, they touch one foot on the ground, and we have to catch them. It’s called “Catch.” We take their names and we bring them to court – can you believe this? – and we release them. And …
Jan 29 2019
Are Democrats Too Worried About Howard Schultz?
Umm… Yes. First, Institutional Democrats overestimate the importance of the Independent/Third Party Vote. They did it with John Anderson, they did it with Ross Perot, they did it with Ralph Nader, and they did it with Jill Stein. Blaming your failures on Third Parties, Gerrymandering, and Foreign Interference are simply excuses for under performance and …
Jan 29 2019
How Would A Wealth Tax Work?
Now this is the kind of pissing contest I like. Hard on the heels of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s 70% marginal Income Tax on Incomes over $1 Million, Professor Senator Elizabeth Warren is proposing a Wealth Tax on Net Worth over $50 Million. The difference between Income and Wealth is that Income is what you get in …
Jan 28 2019
Is ‘Centrism’ Inherently Racist?
As I pointed out in my piece about Tom Brokaw below, since the Status Quo is an Institutionally Racist system, those who support it are endorsing Institutional Racism, the more so because they also are in favor of Wealth Inequality and a Class System without advancement or escape. These Old White Guys (and I say …
Jan 28 2019
Tom Brokaw- Racist
I’ve never been one of those that venerated Tom Brokaw as a paragon of a ‘Golden Age’, or at least a Silver or Bronze one, of “Objective Journalism”. So much for Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here–not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible …
Jan 27 2019
Going To The Dogs
As Atrios says, not everyone can do a Philidelphia accent. Now, this is a story all about how My life got flipped-turned upside down And I’d like to take a minute Just sit right there I’ll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air In west Philadelphia born and raised …
Jan 26 2019
Stoned
Not in the good way. What the Stone indictment doesn’t say is what you need to know about Mueller’s Trump Russia probe by Lucian k. Truscott IV, Salon January 26, 2019 By now, everyone on the face of the earth knows that on Friday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted Roger Stone for committing seven felonies, …
Jan 25 2019
Big News Day
As you know I don’t attempt to keep up with breaking and things are. Stone arrest, LaGuardia shutdown, Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio’s second cave in as many days (this one on the Shutdown). No, there is too much. Let me sum up. Well, that will take a while and in the meantime there is this- …
Jan 24 2019
Why Joe Biden Is A Bad Candidate
Normally I save the nominee bashing for later, if ever. I’ve stayed notably silent except in general terms to say that Democrats need more Candidates that embrace positive change (because face it folks, things suck and standing around waiting to lose so they get worse is a pretty nihilistic strategy that only encourages depression and …