Today's Tweet

#JesusChangesEverything is trending... just doing my part... pic.twitter.com/Ag9zwcyYGX

— Think Atheist (@ThinkAtheist) July 16, 2016

Trump On 60 Minutes

Here's a taste:

I was trying to count 2 things here: The times either one of these jokers contradicted either himself or the other.  And the number of times they each spoke of the other in the 3rd person.  I lost track in a big hurry.  I couldn't keep up.

If you're saying you intend to vote for this rolling clusterfuck, I'm gonna feel perfectly justified hitting you in the knee with a 24-oz ball peen until you stop saying that. 

Today's Pix

Another Day, Another What The Fuck

Three dead cops in Baton Rouge - 3 others wounded, one in critical condition. Plus one dead perp and as many as 2 others on the loose. (as of 3pm Sunday)


(update as of 5:30pm Sunday: Cops think it was a single perp - Gavin Eugene Long. No others are known to be involved, and the cops say they're not looking for anybody else.)

Three police officers have been fatally shot in Baton Rouge, La., and three others were wounded, according to East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Department.

East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux III said one gunman was shot dead, but two other suspects may be at large.

"At this point in time the scene is still active," he said. "We are advising the public to please take an alternate route and steer clear of the area."

Corporal L'Jean Mckneely Jr., spokesman for the Baton Rouge Police Department, said officers secured the area around the suspect and sent a robot device in after the shooting, “making sure there aren’t any explosives in the area."

To be sure, this is a truly shitty thing.  As Fugelsang tweeted earlier:

I'm on the side of everyone who's against both police brutality & brutality against police. It's not a complicated position. #BatonRouge

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) July 17, 2016

I do have to wonder though - where are all the Ammosexuals in this?  They should be standing and wildly cheering as these heroic defenders of liberty have exercised their god-given 2nd Amendment rights to fight back against the oppressive tyrannical Police Forces (aka Da Gubmint).  And yet there's this deafening silence.

That level of cognitive dissonance seems to get a bit paralyzing, don't it?  

Today's GIF

Today's Podcast

Certain Press Poodles have been assigned the task of lamenting "our difficulties" in talking about the horribleness of the apparent racism in USAmerica Inc, and about how our political leaders are exploiting the divisions blah blah bah.

So there was a poll asking Americans about how the two major party candidates are doing in the whole Racial Divisiveness thing - ie: Who do you think is more responsible for the negativity regarding our "national conversation about race"?

Trump = 67%
Clinton = 16%

Press Poodles: But remember,folks - overall, 61% of Americans think it's all pretty shitty, which lets everybody slide back into the comfortably numb Both Sides narrative, and so we'll call it a draw.

Today's Tweet

People who are most against homosexuality often have the most secretly homosexual logos #TrumpPence pic.twitter.com/ZY9MUGCB4j

— Mike T (@majtague) July 15, 2016

A Glimmer

Saudi Arabia has roving bands of Morality Police with the power to beat up citizens they deem not behaving as good little Wahabis.

A judge in Kentucky decided he could refuse to officiate at a civil wedding ceremony because the couple didn't mention God in their vows.

Bands of psychotically religious assholes do all manner of shitty things to people everywhere, in the name of their love and devotion for any of a dozen versions of the one true merciful and loving god.

Fuck 'em.

Still, there's this tiny glimmer of hope in USAmerica Inc.

  

Maybe It's Just Me

From a distance, and if you squint just a bit, the GOP Convention logo looks kinda like an advertisement for The La Brea Tar Pits.

Just sayin'.

Metal Working

Anthony Howe

They never told me I could put Shop Class together with Art Class and maybe end up with something this fucking amazing.