Wednesday, May 06, 2026
Sterling Gold
Even though it was for a sad reason I always love any time Mike & the Mad Dog get together, and of course them taking about John Sterling was a poignantly hilarious trip down memory lane; even I had no idea that not only did Mike & Doggie love making fun of Sterling’s home run calls, which Sterling himself of course loved more than anybody else, but Doggie’s enthusiasm in particular may have spurred Sterling on to do even more of them.
Just an incredible 20 minutes for Yankees fans to be able to listen to (these first 6 minutes were all I could get to post, but it’s available on Sirius); also, listening to them dancing on lasers trying to describe Sterling without using the word “gay" = unanimous Radio Hall of Fame moment, retired & hanging from the rafters. 🤗😭🤣🤣
WE MISS YOU JOHN STERLING!! ⚾️🕺
Just an incredible 20 minutes for Yankees fans to be able to listen to (these first 6 minutes were all I could get to post, but it’s available on Sirius); also, listening to them dancing on lasers trying to describe Sterling without using the word “gay" = unanimous Radio Hall of Fame moment, retired & hanging from the rafters. 🤗😭🤣🤣
WE MISS YOU JOHN STERLING!! ⚾️🕺
Ideas. I Have Them.
There should be a documentary about tracking down people who were unwitting participants in a comedian's standup.
EPISODE ONE: who was this Zorro ion a plane guy???
(YES I just remembered I've thought of this brilliant idea before so hey now I get to bitch about being light years behind Xmastime, does this please you people??!!?! 😡)
Here's Me...
...coming in with my thoughts on the NBA conference finals after watching a total of 0 minutes of NBA basketball for the entire year up to that point.
A Question for Wegmans
Is the house icon all the way to the right to remind me to get the fuck out of Wegmans? 😡 😡 😡 😡
RIP John Sterling
One of my favorite things on Mike & the Mad Dog was whenever they’d replay one of Sterling’s not-quite-“home run” calls from the night before howling with laughter; he was a true character in a sport that once valued true characters but doesn’t anymore, he was one of the – if not the?- last connections to the Yankees dynasty I walked into back in 1998, and his voice on any of a million nights gave the game he was calling a lift with his personality & love of the game. He will be missed. 😢
Depending on Billionaires Has Absolutely Failed Us
I’m not anti-billionaire, and I’m sorry to tell this to my more billionaire-friendly fans but I don’t really think any other Democrat is either, nice talking point on tv as it may be, but I 100% am anti-let’s-just-hand-over-all-the-power-to-billionaires-pretty-much-solely-because-they’re billionaires, and it turns out the reason they’re even allowed to do it is because one of the Koch brothers got pissed off in 1974:
We’ve given the billionaires all of our money & all of our power and this is what we’ve gotten in return, so shove your “oh this guy just hates billionaires” bullshit up your fucking ass and tell me how this country is better off for ANYBODY who’s not a billionaire or billionaire-adjacent. I’ll be holding my breath. If these guys had shown up & said “you know what with our money & our brilliance that got us that money we’re gonna do XYZ that are gonna make everybody’s lives as fulfilling & comfortable as our own” I’d reconsider my position, but it juuuuuuuuuuust doesn’t seem like that's going to happen anytime soon.
And we can't blame the billionaires themselves - 50 years after David Koch lost his shit Donald Trump screamed at everybody live on tv that people are eating pets in Springfield Ohio because “he saw someone say it on tv” and that, despite having spent 4 years already as President of the United States, he had “concepts of a plan” for healthcare, and 75M+ Americans decided you know what, good enough for me. This is partly because most people are idiots, including myself (although not so much that I’d vote for Trump), and partly because people have spent their lifetimes being told that the billionaires are the ones with all the expertise, they’re billionaires because they’re so brilliant and if we’d only give them the reins & get the hell out of their goddam way they’d save the day and yet, again, so far what they’ve given us is Donald fucking Trump.
In terms billionaires may understand, they have been an incredibly terrible investment for the American people and, therefore, the entire world.
It won’t stop anytime soon – people won’t suddenly stop believing that gee if I just give everything I have to rich people then they’ll make ME rich too; they’ll always believe they’re just one billionaire vote away from being invited into a club they not only will never receive any benefits from, but will be utterly crushed by again & again & again. Great.
In the wake of the Watergate scandal, Congress passed new campaign finance restrictions that would have largely eliminated the ability of wealthy people to buy elections. In addition to donor disclosure rules and contribution limits, the new legislation capped so-called “independent expenditures” on behalf of political candidates at $1,000 a year. There were even curbs on what rich people could spend to get themselves elected.While the article delivers a very gentle “maybe letting billionaires have all the power isn’t a great thing” message, it doesn’t hammer down what’s most painfully obvious: after 50+ years of our slowly handing over more & more power to these people, the best idea they’ve had so far is re-electing Donald Trump. That’s it. And while you can think what you want of Trump as president, if you’re being honest you’d have to say that while Trump being re-elected has greatly, GREATLY serviced the bank accounts of those 300 billionaires, for everybody else it’s been ridiculously chaotic at best and & terrifyingly destructive at worst (ICE/DOGE/Iran/tariffs/etc etc).
David Koch, a wealthy industrialist, was enraged. “I have the right to spend whatever I choose to promote what I believe,” he later wrote, adding that the law “makes my blood boil.”
Flash forward to the 2024 presidential campaign. Six of the nation’s wealthiest billionaires spent more than $100 million apiece to help get another billionaire, Donald J. Trump, elected president. Independent expenditures by wealthy outsiders for the first time in history exceeded what the candidates’ own campaign committees spent, a New York Times analysis showed. Mr. Koch’s brother Charles was among 300 billionaires and their families who accounted for 19 percent of all contributions in federal elections.
We’ve given the billionaires all of our money & all of our power and this is what we’ve gotten in return, so shove your “oh this guy just hates billionaires” bullshit up your fucking ass and tell me how this country is better off for ANYBODY who’s not a billionaire or billionaire-adjacent. I’ll be holding my breath. If these guys had shown up & said “you know what with our money & our brilliance that got us that money we’re gonna do XYZ that are gonna make everybody’s lives as fulfilling & comfortable as our own” I’d reconsider my position, but it juuuuuuuuuuust doesn’t seem like that's going to happen anytime soon.
And we can't blame the billionaires themselves - 50 years after David Koch lost his shit Donald Trump screamed at everybody live on tv that people are eating pets in Springfield Ohio because “he saw someone say it on tv” and that, despite having spent 4 years already as President of the United States, he had “concepts of a plan” for healthcare, and 75M+ Americans decided you know what, good enough for me. This is partly because most people are idiots, including myself (although not so much that I’d vote for Trump), and partly because people have spent their lifetimes being told that the billionaires are the ones with all the expertise, they’re billionaires because they’re so brilliant and if we’d only give them the reins & get the hell out of their goddam way they’d save the day and yet, again, so far what they’ve given us is Donald fucking Trump.
In terms billionaires may understand, they have been an incredibly terrible investment for the American people and, therefore, the entire world.
It won’t stop anytime soon – people won’t suddenly stop believing that gee if I just give everything I have to rich people then they’ll make ME rich too; they’ll always believe they’re just one billionaire vote away from being invited into a club they not only will never receive any benefits from, but will be utterly crushed by again & again & again. Great.
Tuesday, May 05, 2026
Here's Me with the Script from Every Episode of TWO AND A HALF MEN From What I've Picked Up Despite Never Actually Watching an Episode
INTERIOR: Living room. Mid-afternoon. Standing there are Alan, Jake and Berta.
[A middle-aged man in a $5,000 suit suddenly walks through the front door into the room with a stunningly beautiful young woman]
MAN: Everybody, this is my wife Claire
[CLAIRE waves, everybody else waves. In walks CHARLIE SHEEN and hoo boy you’re not gonna believe it but it turns out CHARLIE SHEEN has slept with CLAIRE and so HERE COME THE LAUGHS, everybody!]
THE END
Current Status
I was all excited to blather away to you people about my THE JOHN SULLIVAN XMASTIME FILM FESTIVAL BY XMASTIME but since Only Fools and Horses is the only of the four series currently streaming and the episode I selected (To Hull and Back) happened to be one of the two episodes (The Miracle of Peckham) that for some reason are NOT streaming so I would have to watch it on DVD so spoiler alert the THE JOHN SULLIVAN XMASTIME FILM FESTIVAL BY XMASTIME has been postponed until further notice.
Moi Say Moi
People who celebrate the absolute obliteration of our long history of career bureaucrats at every level of government who've always done the actual grinding work that’s absolutely necessary for any functioning government to exist much less function need to watch this scene from Mad Men to remember oh yeah if someone hadn’t thought to call up Joan their entire venture would’ve lasted about 10 fucking minutes, if that.
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The Longest, Most Destructive Game of Telephone ever
Republicans think everything they hear that they don’t like is “fake news!!” meant to be dismissed immediately but then wanna base everything we believe in as a nation on something somebody said that somebody may have heard somebody say decades earlier about something or somebody around 2,000 years ago. 🧐🤔🤷♂️
Things I Think
I think it’s kind of funny that in 1861 poor white Southerners by the millions went to war so that plantation labor could continue to be monopolized by slaves and the same people in 2026 think that if we just got rid of all the brown people then poor white people would pick strawberries 12 hours a day. 🤔🤷♂️
Current Events
Republicans are apparently using last weekend's attempted shooting at The White House Correspondent's Dinner to give Trump $1B for better security for his ballroom, so...it’s thoughts & prayers for school shootings, $1B golden dollhouses for Trump. Got it.
Monday, May 04, 2026
The Best Billionaire?
I'm assuming I'm not the only person for whom Craigslist is one of my earliest memories of a more truly connected internet; "Craig" was always a mystery but all these years later we finally hear from the great man via an op-ed he wrote in The New York Times - or, as I call it, "The Times" and I'm not gonna bother pulling an excerpt since I agree 100% with every word he says, and I hope it's how I would act/think should I find myself accidentally falling into billions of dollars as Craig from Craigslist claims he did.
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