Today's Day

International Women's Day

My mom. From the typeset plate for the front page of the Arvada Citizen-Sentinel Jan'77#InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/digTj9lYNS

— Mike Roberts (@EvilleMike) March 8, 2016

Samantha Bee

I like Trevor Noah and I want him to do well, and I want the suits to stay with him until he can get his feet under himself, but seriously, Comedy Central's got the wrong guy hosting The Daily Show.

Colbert And The Dongald

I wanna stop being part of the problem, but I can't helping thinking that part of the solution is to make sure more and more people have to look at what a 3rd rate burlesque show the GOP has become.  And to remind the Repub voters that this is what they've been asking for all along.  Trump, Cruz, Rubio - these are their guys.

And then this from College Humor:

Today's GIF

What We Really Need

"... are fewer people who think there's one single thing that will solve all of our problems ..."

Lily Eskelsen, NEA President:

Gimme what we'll spend the next several years on a coupla fully-loaded Ford class aircraft carriers, and I'll turn every public school in this joint into a fucking palace.  Not by painting the walls and landscaping the parking lots, but by helping the people who struggle sometimes just to survive in the neighborhoods where those schools are. 

You can't fix the schools if you don't fix the neighborhoods.  And you can't fix the neighborhoods without giving people solid reasons to believe we're not gonna turn our backs on them and allow their kids to be mangled and pulverized by the cycle of poverty ignorance and crime. 

Oddly Not Godly

The Sedlec Ossuary located in the suburbs of the medieval town of Kutná Hora in Czech Republic is one of the most unusual chapels. Decorated with more than 40.000 human skeletons, the medieval gothic church is also known as the Church of Bones.

Not to be overly generalize-y, but you're not gonna convince me that most of this churchy shit isn't really just a death cult rebranded.

Monday Pix

But Is It Poetry?

About Last Nite

SNL may finally be all the way back in the game.

Today's Wingnut

They don't come any slimier than Alex Jones.

And y'know, Alex - your obsessing about Rubio's obsessing about Trump (and other stuff too) seems to indicate a certain particularly obsessive thing that might say a helluva lot more about your pathology than anybody else's.

Jesus Schwartz, dude.  How is anybody supposed to keep up with any of this double flip with a full-twisting backward takeoff whatever the fuck?

Today's Tweet

Before the war, we slept to dream, now no longer know sleep, and dream dies pic.twitter.com/Vkc4fQ6UvX

— marie ن (@mariesaade1) February 29, 2016

Fuck that war.  And fuck all the other wars as well.  And fuck anybody who tries to tell me this is how humans oughta behave.

Syria is another in a long list of conflicts where nobody even knows how to tell the good guys from the bad guys. But no mater - this is not right. This is just never fucking right.

أنا آسف

Bad Lip Reading

It would appear Mr Poe has gone mainstream now, as it gets harder and harder to tell the parodies from the "real thing".  

A Ghost Of Fridays Past

Duck Before You Drown - a mix tape I did many moons ago.

Don't try to kid yourself - all of man's endeavor is in service of getting close with a lover.

The Krug Man Speaks

Paul Krugman NYT

Donald Trump is a “con artist,” says Marco Rubio — who has promised to enact giant tax cuts, undertake a huge military buildup and balance the budget without any cuts in benefits to Americans over 55.

“There can be no evasion and no games,” thunders Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House — whose much-hyped budgets are completely reliant on “mystery meat,” that is, it claims trillions of dollars in revenue can be collected by closing unspecified tax loopholes and trillions more saved through unspecified spending cuts.

Mr. Ryan also declares that the “party of Lincoln” must “reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry.” Has he ever heard of Nixon’s “Southern strategy”; of Ronald Reagan’s invocations of welfare queens and “strapping young bucks” using food stamps; of Willie Horton?

Put it this way: There’s a reason whites in the Deep South vote something like 90 percent Republican, and it’s not their philosophical attachment to libertarian principles.

Chock full of the good stuff - quit fuckin' around here and go read it. Now. 

Deep Tho'ts

The "conservatives" want to save America from The Libruls.  The rubes wanna save the GOP from The Establishment, and The GOP Establishment wants to save itself from the Trumpkinite Rubes.

Guys, I don't think it's unreasonable for us to ask you to let go of all the stoopid adolescent rescue fantasies (not to mention the boarding school bullshit game of My-Dick's-Bigger'n-Your-Dick) and get to work on the fucking problems.  Could we try that for a while?

Every GOP policy in the last 30 years has been pointed at stripping down the Federal Gov't, delivering all that political power to the coin-operated part-timers in State Houses, and liquidating everything at rummage sale prices for the benefit of an increasingly venal Executive Management Class. This is Oligarchy at its very worst, and they've gotten this place in a tangled mess, all of which is shielded from our doing anything about it by a military and a police force totally dependent on the largesse of a wholly-owned subsidiary formerly know as The United States Congress.  

Wanna know why Trump makes such bold assertions about dealing with guys like Putin and Xi Jinping and Assad and whoever's runnin' the joint for ISIS? Kindred spirits. He knows what makes 'em all tick because he is them.

So this is where we are now.  Go with the GOP and we're being led to the future by way of  an 18th century-style birthright-entitlement aristocracy.  And try to remember that it was such a good deal back then, that about a million people who had everything to lose put their lives on hold for 8 years, and their asses on the line so they didn't have to get on their knees before a guy who coulda been named Drumpf and beg for the privilege of breathing one more day.

Fuck these guys.  And I'm constantly amazed and sometimes a little disheartened that I end up thinking I have to state the obvious, but it's always right there in front of me: 

The only way forward from here 

is to go forward from here.

PS - recalling the lede) "The Libruls" want to preserve democracy and bolster our little experiment in self government by pushing that government to live up to the promises made to "ourselves and our posterity" - and that's what the "conservatives" want to save America from.  

Do ya really need any time at all to let that one sink it?