2019-01-15 Sometimes the best presents are homemade.

I haven't used this blog in a while because, frankly, there hasn't been much to feel funny about in the last three years. That's not to say that there hasn't been much to laugh at, just that much more to enrage. And it looks increasingly that that's not an accident. The United States, and the world that has invested much in it and its ideals, has been under attack and not by starving Guatemalans.

First of all, the criminal mob running Russia spent a lot of money to...

...in our election .Their puppet still wants to spend all of our money on...

...that he promised others would pay for. And China, who wanted to get..

...have beaten us to...

Much of what made these things possible has been...

...on the part of voters almost three years ago and the...

...they put into office. They wouldn't listen to scientists, intelligence experts, actuaries or anyone with first hand experience or a lifetime devoted to studying the effects of their policies. All they heard was...

...and the...

of well-paid right-wing provocateurs on TV, cable, radio, newspapers and online services (who, without any sense of irony, perpetually complain about the left-wing controlling the media) and their...

...of propaganda disguised (not well) as news.  Facts and even the sense that there is any objective truth became...

...and led anybody who still hadn't lost their mind to ask,...

All of this gave the country little choice but to turn over the House of Representatives to a different political party by voting in young, motivated and vocal legislators last year. Unfortunately, their party is still run by...

...of...

...without a...

It still provides a...

...in the...

...for the next election. There's plenty to indicate that...

...will..

...in...

And...

...if our previous President is reading this by any chance...

140225 A joke

If a doctor leads you to believe that he'll care for you and then doesn't, is he a hippocrateaser?

130104- A joke

So, NRA honcho Wayne LaPierre has stated, pretty forcefully, that the national response to the recent spate of mass killings should not be reinstating the ban on the only weapons that make such multiple murders possible. Instead, he insists, there should be stricter mental health screenings involved. Ohboyohboyohboy... this definitely comes under the heading of "Be careful what you wish for." I'm guessing ol' Wayne hasn't read very much O. Henry or seen too many episodes of "The Twilight Zone". It would be kind of embarrassing for somebody whose job was to speak for a firearms lobby to have to tell people he's not allowed to own a gun just because he's crazier than an outhouse rat.

110525- A joke

.....I don't know why pundits keep speculating about the possibility of Sarah Palin running for president. In her new self-aggrandizing documentary, one of the few people singing her praises is Andrew Breitbart. That's like saying, "Friends? Sure, I've got friends! Charles Manson still answers my letters..."

110521- A joke

.....I've heard the news out of Cannes recently. Director Lars Von Trier was banned for comments that he understood Hitler. Von Trier apologized and said he meant it as a joke. Considering what an ass he's always been, I actually find it more believable that he would find that funny than that he would empathize with anyone. Still, the festival organizers aren't letting him back in. There has to be a more direct way of saying "Ten years ago we sat through your excruciatingly painful movies because you showed a lot of promise and thought you were finding your voice. It took us this long to figure out that was your voice."

110518- A joke

.....In today's headlines the head of the IMF has been arrested for the sexual assault of a native African working in a New York hotel. It says he's on a suicide watch. Considering what the IMF has done to Africa, they shouldn't have too much difficulty finding volunteers to watch that.

100507- A joke

.....Let me see if I understand the philosophy behind 'free-range chicken'. If you have a choice between killing one animal or the other, you should kill the one that's happy?