This blog will host my ramblings about life. To be a bit more specific, I'll probably focus on these subjects: music, sports, food, the everyday beauty of life, and the comedy/tragedy/absurdity of our existence. That about covers it.
For the US to elect a pathologically-lying, corrupt, bloviating, narcissistic, pedophilic criminal twice and be run by a total kakistocracy right now, we should be renamed Dumbfuckistan.
Carlin said it well with this joke, which is dark humor and not really funny when you think about it.
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And by the way, Dan Quayle would be a help to this administration. At least that guy might have some morals and respect the Constitution.
And speaking of crazy people like Carlin did, during Covid Facebook showed me who the crazy people are.
Once The Late Show with Stephen Colbert goes off the air, I'm not watching CBS anymore.
I'll more likely frequent The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Myers more often.
I'm interested to see who shakes out as the winner of the Democratic primaries here in Illinois. I voted this morning. I'm closely watching the U.S. Senate race.
Gas prices are crazy high because of President Adolf's Iran War to distract us from the fact he's a pedophile.
The tire pressure point is a good one. It's one factor I've paid more attention to over the past few years.
When I was at a car dealership today to get my car's oil changed, it is difficult not to overhear the salespeople talking to one another and to customers. The one sales guy on the phone and in his interactions with other males has a tendency to call those guys "brother."
As someone who grew up watching then WWF wrestling, I automatically associate the term "brother" with the likes of Hulk Hogan and other wrestlers who liked using that word. I just find it odd that "brother" when addressing a male person is a constant in some peoples' lexicons.
The idiocy of President Adolf is on full display with European leaders not willing to help secure the Strait of Hormuz.
The Iran War is only going to motivate people prone to violence to attack the U.S.
It appears many of the recent attacks on Americans on our own soil is the result of President Adolf's attacks on Iran and the bellicose rhetoric from the senile white supremacist and his drunk Secretary of Defense.
There are all kinds of terrorist groups sympathetic to Iran.
I've been listening to the albums of Delta Spirit a lot this week.
I just really dig their sound and the lead vocalist's timbre of voice.
Here's "Home Again" from the 2020 album What Is There. The band's most recent album is One Is One that came out in 2022. I'm hoping for a new album sometime soon.
Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson) has a new album coming out on LP, CD, and cassette, but it's not available to stream although he did drop the whole album on YouTube.
So here it is. Enjoy the country-rock-disco mashup that it is.
I gassed up my vehicle before President Adolf initiated a war with Iran. At that time the price per gallon in my area of east central Illinois was $2.91.
I drove past the station where I get my gas, and if I remember right, the price jumped to $3.19.
Gary Markstein provided a great political cartoon related to how the administration is using the Justice Department for their own ends and to cover up President Adolf's pedophilia.
The strikethroughs are true.
So the guy who ran on no more "foreign wars" is doing all kinds of unconstitutional foreign wars while the craven GOP sits back and does nothing.
Markstein is on the mark again with his latest.
The US attacking Iran is simply going to move up someone else similar to the previous leader.
President Adolf is a puppet of Netanyahu in regarding the Middle East.
And the attacks are going to create more terrorists who will target the United States. The GOP has learned nothing from Afghanistan and Iraq.
This song came across SiriusXM's Lithium channel when I was driving around this week.
It's a classic one-hit wonder of the 90s. It has that 90s pop-rock alternative rock sound that was so prevalent during the decade. Very Third Eye Blind like.
I finished the documentary on the ABA the other day titled Soul Power: The Legend of the American Basketball Association.
It's quite good, and I learned that the ABA started the three-point shot and the slam dunk contest. And during the 70s the ABA served up a better brand of basketball than the NBA.
I'm not much of a watcher of the current NBA although I grow up watching the Bulls on WGN when they were a bad team, suffering through Jordan's Bulls losing to the Pistons, and finally reveling in the glory of the Bulls dynasty.
I've gotten to the age that half the time I don't know much or if anything about the guest host of SNL. And I usually don't like the musical guest.
One of the books I'm currently reading is Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.
After he finally took over as Khan and united all kinds of clans on the steppes, he instituted "The Great Law of the Genghis Khan" that, for its time, was quite progressive and helped stop the cycles of exploitation and violent paybacks.
The Great Law of Genghis Khan instituted these rules (and I'm quoting directly from the book):
"forbade the the kidnapping of women"
"forbade the abduction and enslavement of any Mongol"
"he declared all children legitimate, whether born to a wife or a concubine"
"forbade the selling of women into marriage"
"outlawed adultery" - "adultery applied to relations between married people of separate households. As long as it did not cause a public strife between families, it did not rank as a crime."
"made animal rustling a capital offense"
"forbidding the hunting of animals between March and October"
"decreed complete and total religious freedom for everyone"
"exempted religious leaders and their property from taxation and from all types of public service"
"extended the same tax exemptions to a range of professionals who provide essential public services, including undertakers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and scholars"
So in the 13th century, the Mongol leader instituted reforms that would reduce strife and conflict, moved the perception of how women should be treated, created a hunting season, established religious freedom, and gave tax exemptions for people who work for the public good.
I would especially like that tax exemption for teachers and scholars.
That forthcoming alliance cannot be for American farmers and manufacturers.
Please join the resistance against this administration.
I know a bunch of people are selling the car decals with a loon as a rebel resistance symbol, but this one works for all the subsequent places President Adolf and his goons are going to terrorize.
I got one on my car and one on my office door.
Pam Bondi is protecting pedophiles. Here's some excellent work from M2Bulls.
Talking about the DOW during the House Judiciary Committee hearing is one of the best examples of a red herring I've seen in a while.
This week's Existential Comic features the point by Bertrand Russell that the wiser the person the less sure they tend to be.
Russell's advice is that "So whenever you see someone proclaiming that they have all the answers with total confidence, think to yourself: This guy is probably a total idiot."
In this troubling world and in this troubling country run by an absolute lunatic, I need some positivity in my life.
One of ways to combat all the negativity out there is reading The Optimist Daily. I highly recommend it.
As I've seen repeatedly on TikTok, all kinds of people are selling the loon in the symbol of the rebel alliance (Star Wars) in solidarity with protests in Minneapolis.
Instead of getting one of those, I purchased a regular Rebel Alliance symbol for my car (see below) and one for my office door.
I hope the use of this symbol spreads because we are truly going up against evil people, the dark side of America.
Prior to the election, there was one house on one of my dog-walking routes who engaged in some satire in response to their neighbor having a Trump-Vance yard sign on their lawn.
They countered with Palpatine-Vader yard sign. Brilliant.
I haven't watched any of the Winter Olympics yet. I don't know if I'll watch any of it.
I did like the video I saw of J.D. Vance being booed at the opening ceremonies.
