Monday, September 26, 2016

Who's going to win tonight's debate?

"I see a victory for the two party monopoly." 

"Dat geezer Trump is wot who is gonna win.  Because all he gotta do is not fuck up."

"I care not who wins that silly debate because my dog and I are on our honeymoon.  Thanks a lot Obama!" 

"I'm too stoned to say right now.  Come back after my buzz wears off."

"I piss on your debates."

"Je suis un lapin." 
"I'm rooting for Hillary because I want to root Hillary.  What?  Is it sexist to say that now?  Oh fuck, I give up."

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Surely he's joking (He's not, and stop calling me Shirley)

That goofy looking southern Republican is Robert Pittenger.  He's a Congressman from North Carolina and he looked at all the civil unrest in Charlotte that's going down in the wake of yet another unarmed innocent black male getting gunned down by a trigger happy cop and he's asking, "Where's the spirit of Martin Luther King?"

He's too fucking stupid to realize the spirit of MLK is alive and well when black folks rise up and fight systemic racism, police brutality, and injustice. He thinks King was some kind of meek kumbaya milktoast who just wanted all of us to get along.  He's forgotten that King led thousands of marchers out in the streets to demand an end to police brutality.  It's slipped his tiny mind that King was the leader of a mass movement that worked for jobs, justice, and voting rights for the millions of oppressed black folks in the south and everywhere else in the USA.  He's fallen for the bullshit lies of the Quislings like Jesse Lee Peterson who claim that King was a Republican who hated labor unions, for the record one more time King was a liberal who worked to unionize black folks because he knew that collectively black workers have more power than they do individually.  This white gerrymandered corporate stooge thinks we all forgot how King was anti war, anti capitalist, and ready to take to the streets whenever he needed to in order to make his point or to mobilize people on behalf of his causes.

King is out there every time black folks and their allies say that black lives matter.  King is there protesting today's wage slavery and economic injustice.  King is right there shoulder to shoulder with all people who want to see true equality, an end to racism, the end of police brutality, and who demonstrate against their oppression.

The spirit of MLK is alive and well and it is still looking for freedom, equality, and justice.  And his spirit is in Charlotte in the streets.

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Woman crush Wedenesday


I'm still crushing on Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Dear Bernie,

My vote for Dr. Jill Stein in November won't be a 'protest vote.'  I'm voting for Ms. Stein because I genuinely want her to be POTUS.  Also, there is no such thing as 'the Nader effect.'  More Democrats in Florida in 2000 voted for Bush/Cheney than voted for Ralph Nader and Gore took his home state of TN for granted.

Just because you rolled over for Hillary doesn't mean I'm going to.  Deal with it.

Sincerely,
Me

Sunday, September 18, 2016

Millie knows what time it is

Aaah, the casual sexism of Millie the Model, she was man crazy.

Friday, September 16, 2016

Voices from the past speak out about Donald Trump

"He's a foul mouthed buffoon who needs to be soundly thrashed."

"I'd sooner vote for a Negro or a woman than vote for him."

"We'd vote for him if they let jaunty homosexuals like us vote."

"Go away, I'm about to eat this baby."

"Trump makes me wish I had been on the Titanic."

"If we gals ever get the vote no anti female jackass like him would ever be elected."

"I dreamed all of you up, you don't really exist, except in my mind.  Also, all of my internal organs are made out of English muffins."  

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Monday, September 12, 2016

That face you make...


  • when Buffoon Trump denies his birtherism.
  • when Lena Dunham says anything.
  • when you tell someone you live in TN and they ask if you know their favorite country music singer.
  • when someone says that a vote for Dr. Jill Stein is a vote for Buffoon Trump.
  • when someone feels compelled to tell you they hate what sport is in season.
  • when someone does another post with Tina Fey doing her eye roll in it.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Red Sunday



Red on the head, fire down below.

Saturday, September 10, 2016

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Book Report

I loved this well written and gripping page turner about the founding of Henry Ford's boondoggle in Brazil.  Mr. Grandin's book tells the tale of how Ford tried to tame the Amazon jungle for profit but ended up with fuck all to show for it.

Frightened that the British were planning to form a rubber cartel, Ford persuaded the government of Brazil to practically give him a huge tract of land the size of CT on which he promised to grow enough rubber trees to allow Brazil to regain it's once mighty rubber monopoly.  Ford ramrodded his plans through and he sent scores of men and material down to his Brazilian holdings to build a rubber plantation his way.  Unfortunately for Ford his way was the wrong way and everything that could go wrong did go wrong for the notoriously penny pinching capitalist potentate. They grew the trees too close together, planted them too near the river, tried to micromanage their workers lives off duty and on, built the wrong style of houses, and at times, they had to deal with rioting workers and unionization attempts.  The litany of things that went wrong due to the hubris of the management team at Ford is astounding.  They tried to run this operation from the company HQ in Michigan and they paid dearly for their mistakes.

In the end hundreds died, a shit ton of money was wasted, and in the end it ended up being taken over by the US government who eventually turned it over to the Brazilian government.  It was a money pit full of failure for Ford, which is why they never talked much about it afterwards.

Grandin is a very good storyteller and his writing is top notch.  This book reads like a non fiction novel more than a history.  I highly recommend it.

Monday, September 5, 2016

Happy birthday to you Raquel Welch!

And I hope the rest of you in the USA had a good Labor Day.

Sunday, September 4, 2016

Saturday, September 3, 2016

Can a woman be an Uncle Tom?

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Thursday, September 1, 2016

I left my spleen in San Francisco

California never held much allure for me but mid century San Francisco looks like a place I would have loved.