Overheard

People tell me I'm such a downer because I've got nothing bad news all day every day.

So, OK - I hear you. And every now and then I want to be of some comfort to my friends and loyal readers, so here's a bit of good news:

Things are great today -

compared with

what's coming tomorrow.

Happy now?

Oy

You can't kill your way out of your problems.

Are you trying to tell me none of these idiots ever watched just one lousy episode of Perry Mason? Murder She Wrote? Columbo?

Fuck. I'd give just about anything to be living in uninteresting times.

Iran Clusterfuck

Some things:

• As someone who's been known to attempt an inappropriate joke at an inappropriate time, I get the Huckabee thing - but damn, son - I never did that shit
• "...do no rely on the US government..." has become the entire world's motto
• If the reporting on what you're doing is making you look bad, maybe you should be doing something that won't make you look bad when somebody reports on it

War Bucks

The price of oil needs to be over about $65 a barrel for America's Dirty Fuels Cartel to break even on domestic production, and between $80 and $90 to reach "Sustainability".

And wouldja just lookey here - almost halfway!

I wonder how that happened.

It's a wonderment is all it is.

HCR

There is no "end game" other than domination - dare I say 'dominion'.

without a world-ending

conflagration in the middle east

there can be no rapture

A More Perfect Union

It's groundbreaking! Somebody write this down!

Manufacturing Ignorance

agnotology
noun

The process of intentionally creating or encouraging doubt or ignorance, for example by spreading false information, in order to influence opinion, sell a product, or gain an advantage, or the study of this process.

Monte Mader

Stating The Obvious

Trump is one stupid fuck, surrounded by an entourage of stupid fucks.

President Farquaad