“Republicans have one path to victory in this election and it is called false equivalency. They can’t deny Trump is horrible. It’s on tape. So they want voters to believe Hillary is just as bad. And in pursuit of that goal they have a very powerful ally: lazy people. People who like to say, ‘They are all bad.’ Because when you say that you don’t have to do any homework. Say they are all the same, and you can sound justifiably jaded by the entire process when really you just don’t know anything. You say you are cynical about politics? Don’t flatter yourself. Cynical comes when you know too much. You, on the other hand, haven’t bothered to learn anything.
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Truth in 2016
I've been screaming this for years re: idiots who dismiss politicians as "oh, they're all bad":
Friday, October 28, 2016
One Year Ago Today, II
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Live Forever
These quotes and insults from the Gallagher brothers ranked are, in a word, awesome.
16. Noel on the worst band he's ever heard: "Do you ever look at the sky and think, 'I'm glad I'm alive?' After I heard Sum 41, I thought, I'm actually alive to hear the shittiest band of all time. Which is quite something when you think about it. Of all the bands that have gone before and all the bands that'll be in the future, I was around when the worst was around."
Oh, Good.
Hmm.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
More Thoughts. I Have Them.
Hey, if Trump has to base his first 100 days in office as president on an Adam Sandler movie, at least it's the funny one.Thoughts. I Have Them.
Trump's chances of winning may be
drastically different if he'd chosen a certain NFL tight end as his running mate.
Officecow Memories!
Questions. I Have Them.
World Series
Seems like a good time for some outrageous indignation from the right about the time Hillary waffled on being a Cubs fan.
Footnotes
I'm often fascinated by uber-footnotes in history; either in pictures (ie. who's the woman in the picture they always show kneeling over the body at Kent State?) or otherwise (ie Raymond Jones - to quote Wikipedia: The Beatles had recorded the 'My Bonnie' single with Tony Sheridan in Germany...Epstein's version of the story was that a customer—Raymond Jones—walked into the NEMS shop and asked Epstein for the "My Bonnie" single, which made Epstein curious about the group.") Who are these people? Has anyone ever interviewed them? That should be a whole book, interviews with these footnote people. There's millions of 'em.Who was the guy in real life who inspired John Sullivan to write the greatest BBC moment ever?
More Xmastime footnotes HERE.
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Halloween!
Michelle
JANUARY 20, 2025
I can’t believe I’m having to leave this place after only 8 years, I was the best at presidenting, I really was the best. People are giving me credit, some great people, are giving me credit for being a great president. I don’t know how a loser like you could possibly follow in my footsteps, but what do I care. There’s not a lot of “10”s around here anyway so I’m not even sad about leaving. I left some KFC in the fridge for you, which I’m hearing, I’m hearing things, is a great thing for me to have done.
If you need to reach out to me for advice on how to keep making America
great again I’ll be at Putin’s summer cottage just outside of Rutgers
even though, as we’re all clear about, I’ve never met him. Meanwhile,
feel free to have some fun (wink wink) in the Lincoln bedroom (just ask
Ivanka!)
I’m most proud of The Wall I built, even if in the end it only covered 8 feet outside of a Taco Bell in Denver. There will never be a president like me again but for some reason I guess we’re still going to have them anyway, so good luck to you and this country I made great again.
And you’re welcome for getting rid of all the non-whites, btw.
I remain,
THE DONALD
(Catch Celebrity Apprentice on NBC every Tuesday at 10pm!)
I’m most proud of The Wall I built, even if in the end it only covered 8 feet outside of a Taco Bell in Denver. There will never be a president like me again but for some reason I guess we’re still going to have them anyway, so good luck to you and this country I made great again.
And you’re welcome for getting rid of all the non-whites, btw.
I remain,
THE DONALD
(Catch Celebrity Apprentice on NBC every Tuesday at 10pm!)
SHOCKING NEWS DU JOUR
I'm No Expert, But...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
RIP
It's both incredible that Phil Chess was still alive and what he accomplished and influenced. Unreal.
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Thank You!
Chuck Berry is even greater than you think:
He is, like many of us, his own best advocate and his own worst enemy, but the particular problem for Chuck is that, for all of the accolades that have come his way (listen to Elvis, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis celebrate his genius on the Million Dollar Quartet session, just for a start), to this day he has not been unambiguously embraced in the full artistic terms he deserves. There are undoubtedly a multiplicity of reasons for this (race would certainly have to be factored in), but the principal reason that Chuck has not been lifted up on a wave of critical and biographical hosannas is Chuck himself. His unwillingness to ingratiate himself. His unreadable apartness. The deep-seated sense of anger and suspicion that can unexpectedly flare up and turn into overt hostility, with or without provocation (check out the 60th birthday, star-studded performance documentary, Hail! Hail! Rock N' Roll, which is both brilliant for its uplifting artistry and maddening for its self-inflicted failures). Most of all, I would guess, it comes down to his determined, uncompromisingly defiant refusal to conform to anyone else's expectations but his own.
Happy 90th Birfday!
To the real King of Rock 'n Roll, Chuck Berry! Whose legacy is of course nothing if not complicated:
Berry, of course, has drawn his share of praise since he emerged in the mid-’50s. He’s topped polls, been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” was the only rock song on the Voyager Golden Record sent into space in 1977. “If you were going to give rock ‘n’ roll another name,” John Lennon said, “you might call it ‘Chuck Berry.’”Berry has symbolized the past — in “Pulp Fiction,” John Travolta and Uma Thurman dance in a retro joint to “You Never Can Tell” — as well as the future: Essayist Chuck Klosterman recently wrote in his book “But What If We’re Wrong?” that Berry is the one rock figure who could be used to symbolize the whole field to people in distant centuries.But despite this and his outliving many of rock’s other pioneers, Berry has been less visible in recent decades. (Klosterman, who is decidely contrarian, may have selected him over the more obvious Beatles, Dylan or Presley for just that reason.) His falling capital may have come partly because he has not treated his legacy terribly well, touring on his old hits during the ’70s and ’80s without a band, so that local backup groups — of extremely varying quality — delivered his music. (Bruce Springsteen, who was part of one of those backing bands in the early ’70s, recalled Berry as not telling his band what he planned to play, responding to a request for a set list with, “Well, we’re going to do some Chuck Berry songs.”)
Sure, Why Not.
Making America Great
FINALLY, we could have a president incapable of fighting off the Jedi mind tricks of Hollywood tv reporters.
Thoughts. I Have Them.
Monday, October 17, 2016
Reason #14,443 the 80's Were the Golden Age of College Basketball
Names like Baskerville Holmes and Jarvis Basnight.
Del Boy Excerpt du Jour
“We made sure the old boy had a decent sendoff, and the vicar played a blinder. He talked about Grandad and everything he’d achieved in his life, but like I say, other than that it went pretty well.”Buy a copy yourself here!
Saturday, October 15, 2016
Naaaaaaaah, Nah Nah Nah
One of my Top 5 Ramones songs is Bonzo Goes to Bitburg, which is the subject of discussion over at Aquarium Drunkard today:
What Reagan’s aides initially missed in planning out the visit was that the cemetery included the graves of 49 members of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the paramilitary inside Nazi Germany. As a result, a furor erupted ahead of time about Reagan’s visit, especially since he initially planned to pass on visiting the concentration camp. Reagan tried to help his cause by stating in his defense that a good number of the SS soldiers were drafted against their will. “They were victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps.” This comparison didn’t go over well with those already angry about the visit.
Joey was himself Jewish and that couldn’t help but inform his perspective on the matter. Reagan did, by the time of the visit, agree to actually go to the concentration camp as well, though it was a little late to ward off some of the criticism as more than half the members of the Senate and House of Representatives had signed letters either asking Reagan to cancel his visit or for Kohl to rescind the invitation.
Movie Night!
(As they're walking away from the Slaughtered Lamb)
"Weird fucking place."
"It was, man...but boy they could play some darts."
Friday, October 14, 2016
Happy Friday the 14th!
Which means it's time to watch one of my favorite Only Fools and Horses episodes! :)
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Irony du Jour
Abraham Lincoln (HEARD of him?) authorized the establishment of the Secret Service on the very day he was killed.
Wiggity-wiggity-whack!
"Just sign here, sir."
Wiggity-wiggity-whack!
"Just sign here, sir."
Something I Learned Today
Goals. I Have Them.
Today's Goal: break whatever the record is for asking "man, doesn't today feel like a Monday?"
Sunday, October 09, 2016
Debate
Trump somehow simultaneously looks like every Peanuts character in the Christmas dance scene.
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