Things I Can Do Without For 7/19/2019
It's been a busy week in things that I think suck, from Trump's racist rallies to this summer's persistent annoying cloudiness, it's time for Things I Can Do Without...* 1.…
Scaramucci Says Trump Is Turning Into a Racist
Turning into? Is he calling us from the year 1953? — Read on politicalwire.com/2019/07/16/scaramucci-says-trump-is-turning-into-a-racist/
Things I Could’ve Done Without 7/11/2019
Now that I'm back to blogging regularly again, I thought I'd start some regular features. I'm busy, so they'll be weekly. I'll have astronomy pictures on Tuesday--as many fresh ones…
How I Got Kicked Off Twitter
"I got fired last year in Las Vegas from the Frontier Hotel for saying 'shit', in a town where the big game is called 'crap'." --George Carlin, FM & AM…
Notes On “The Curious Legend of the Grade Z Ghost”
The idea for this story began with an image taken from an item from the 1980s era TV show "That's Incredible". Unusually for shows of this kind, this segment actually…
His Haughtiness
David Brooks, the aggressively moderate swell who writes aggressively moderate columns for The New York Times, is seldom so entertaining as when he gets haughty. It affronts him when people of…
With All Due Respect, Fuck Civility
Occasionally, I make a dreadful life mistake and I read a pundit. I know, disgusting habit. I'm trying to quit, but sometimes I just can't help myself. (Maybe pundits are…
Mugs and Suckers
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awY1MRlMKMc?ecver=2] Last year, much to my surprise, Donald Trump, in all his appalling ignorance, taught me what may be the most important lesson I could've learned in 2016. You…
Rancid Wine In A New Bottle
Our culture has a fetish for putting old wine in new bottles. We reboot old TV and movie franchises, comic books, games, everything. We crave both novelty and familiarity, and like to get both at the same time if we can. Yiannopoulos is that in spades. He's the racist, homophobic, sexist uncle you dread talking to at Thanksgiving, but he wears eyeliner and pearls.
Can’t You Trump Voters Just Own It, Already?
Trump voters are sad that people are mad at their support for the Orange Menace. From the New York Times: “We’re backed into a corner,” said Mr. Medford, 46, whose business…