Jul 16, 2016
Jul 15, 2016
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.
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.
Jul 14, 2016
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
They never told me I could put Shop Class together with Art Class and maybe end up with something this fucking amazing.
Jul 13, 2016
Today's Jeopardy Question
I'll take Blinded By Bullshit for 500, Alex.
And the answer is:
And the answer is:
What is "Deflategate"?
Right you are.
Today's Tweet
Hilarious. pic.twitter.com/GZjbA38jum— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) July 12, 2016
Jason Explains
Mr Chaffetz seems completely flummoxed by the process of Gubmint.
Normal Human: Whatcha doin'?
House Republican: Looking for my keys - I dropped 'em when I was out in the garage.
Normal Human: So, why are you in the kitchen?
House Republican: The light's better in here.
Jul 12, 2016
Our Mr Brooks
Another in the continuing parade of passive-voiced responsibility-ducking bullshit:
Anybody who spends time in the working-class parts of America (and, one presumes, Britain) notices the contagions of drug addiction and suicide, and the feelings of anomie, cynicism, pessimism and resentment.
Part of this pain arises from deindustrialization. Good jobs are hard to find. But hardship is not exactly new to these places. Life in, say, a coal valley was never a bouquet of roses.
What’s also been lost are the social institutions and cultural values that made it possible to have self-respect amid hardship — to say, “I may not make a lot of money, but people can count on me. I’m loyal, tough, hard-working, resilient and part of a good community.”
Today's Tweet
It'd be cooler'n shit if this was all anybody had to worry about.
Great !👏👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/KRyvF4UfDl— Asghar Nikoorokh (@nikoorokh) July 11, 2016
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