May 26, 2025

Philosophizing

Why people buy things they don't need, with money they haven't earned, to impress people they don't like.

Wealth as a symbol of social parasitism.


Today's Keith

It's possible Trump is exacting a little revenge because (it's rumored) that his boy, Barron, applied to Harvard and was rejected.

It's also than possible he just wants the homage - he needs them to pay him tribute. So he's trying to extort them. He's the boss and everybody has to pony up his piece of the action.

And I think that's the main theme of all the shit he's throwing. He acts like the biggest baddest motherfucker ever in order to cover the truth - that he's just another whiny-butt little pussy who believes the world has treated him badly, so now that he has the power, he's going to punish everybody.

He's that classic sullen teenaged punk who thinks the world owes him something.


May 25, 2025

Seight Of Hand


On A Sunday - Overheard


Feel free to mock me
for being atheist.
It won't hurt my feelings,
it won't shake my "faith" in
sound practical reasoning,
and I won't kill you for it.

May 24, 2025

While I'm Out


  1. Don't add to the population
  2. Don't subtract from the population
  3. Don't damage any property
  4. Stay out of the hospital, the news, and jail.

Phone List


The Big Beautiful Bamboozle Has To Be Stopped

Republican Senators:

Alabama: Katie Britt 202-224-5744
Alabama: Tommy Tuberville 202-224-4124

Alaska: Lisa Murkowski 202-224-6665
Alaska: Dan Sullivan 202-224-3004

Arkansas: John Boozman 202-224-4843
Arkansas: Tom Cotton 202-224-2353

Florida: Ashley Moody 202-224-3041
Florida: Rick Scott 202-224-5274

Idaho: Mike Crapo 202-224-6142
Idaho: James Risch 202-224-2752

Indiana: Jim Banks 202-224-4814
Indiana: Todd Young 202-224-5623

Iowa: Joni Ernst 202-224-3254
Iowa: Chuck Grassley 202-224-3744

Kansas: Roger Marshall 202-224-4774
Kansas: Jerry Moran 202-224-6521

Kentucky: Mitch McConnell 202-224-2541
Kentucky: Rand Paul 202-224-4343

Louisiana: Bill Cassidy 202-224-5824
Louisiana: John Kennedy 202-224-4623

Maine: Susan Collins 202-224-2523

Mississippi: Cindy Hyde-Smith 202-224-5054
Mississippi: Roger Wicker 202-224-6253

Missouri: Josh Hawley 202-224-6154
Missouri: Eric Schmitt 202-224-5721

Montana: Steve Daines 202-224-2651
Montana: Tim Sheehy 202-224-2644

Nebraska: Deb Fischer 202-224-6551
Nebraska: Pete Ricketts 202-224-4224

North Carolina: Ted Budd 202-224-3154
North Carolina: Thom Tillis 202-224-6342

North Dakota: Kevin Cramer 202-224-2043
North Dakota: John Hoeven 202-224-2551

Ohio: Jon Husted 202-224-3353
Ohio: Bernie Moreno 202-224-2315

Oklahoma: James Lankford 202-224-5754
Oklahoma: Markwayne Mullin 202-224-4721

Pennsylvania: David McCormick 202-224-6324

South Carolina: Lindsey Graham 202-224-5972
South Carolina: Tim Scott 202-224-6121

South Dakota: Mike Rounds 202-224-5842
South Dakota: John Thune 202-224-2321

Tennessee: Marsha Blackburn 202-224-3344
Tennessee: Bill Hagerty 202-224-4944

Texas: John Cornyn 202-224-2934
Texas: Ted Cruz 202-224-5922

Utah: John Curtis 202-224-5251
Utah: Mike Lee 202-224-5444

West Virginia: Shelley Capito 202-224-6472
West Virginia: James Justice 202-224-3954

Wisconsin: Ron Johnson 202-224-5323

Wyoming: John Barrasso 202-224-6441
Wyoming: Cynthia Lummis 202-224-3424

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May 23, 2025

The Lights Are Flashing

Ten years ago, it was Social Media and bot farms.

The culture is changing with startling rapidity, especially now that the operative phrase is "Go fast and break things".

A.I. is the new media tool that's being used by (eg) American fascists the way the brand new media tool known as radio was used in the 1920s by European fascists.



The road to tyranny
is crowded with people
telling us we're overreacting

The Big Beautiful Enabling Bill


Buried in the bill is a provision that forbids courts from charging Trump or other Executive Branch officials with contempt for defying court orders.

Since SCOTUS invented 'Presidential Immunity', this little piece of Republican fuckery sets the stage for Trump to become America's dictator.

202-224-3121
RAISE HELL


aka: The Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Reich

Today's Belle

The bank giveth and the bank taketh away.

Foreclosure rates go up as lenders and insurance carriers perceive greater risk.

As the costs of borrowing and insuring your home go up, so does the rate of foreclosure.

A nation of debtors and renters - the American Plutocrat's dream.