The Supreme Court easily could have let the lower court ruling against Trump [having presidential immunity] stand, but Roberts orchestrated a ruling that effectively pardoned Trump retrospectively and prospectively. That unprecedented and partisan edict paved the way for Trump’s return to power.
John Roberts chose to be the kingmaker, giving Trump king-like powers last year, and then this year mowing down well-founded and well-grounded temporary restraining orders [that allowed] an array of unilateral and extreme dictates to proceed — even though doing so will cause irreparable harm transgress constitutional provisions, laws passed by Congress and long-standing legal precedents.
Roberts ignored a mountain of congressional findings, thousands of pages of record showing that the Voting Rights Act needed to be reauthorized for another couple of decades, in part because there were continuing attempts to oppress black voters by white dominated state legislatures. But John Roberts disregarded those findings that he was required to defer to.
The Supreme Court is not a fact-finding body — it is supposed to defer to the factual findings of lower courts and Congress. Instead, [he] has arrogantly used his position, with the willing help of other Republican appointees, to decimate key enforcement provisions.
Friday, October 31, 2025
John Roberts is a Piece of Shit
HAPPY HALLOWEEN, II
...since beating the Cincinnati Reds in the Wild Card Series, the Dodgers are batting .214 with a .666 OPS against the Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Brewers and Blue Jays.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
To celebrate October being Halloween month I re-watched Hot Fuzz; while I eagerly awaited the Village Green Preservation Society scene I had forgotten that Village Green (different song, idiots!) is also in it and it struck me to ask that with these two songs being featured as part of Simon Pegg's comedy-horror Three Flavors Cornetto trilogy along with songs such as Wicked Annabella, End of the Season and Lazy Old Sun, are The Kinks the most naturally-springing organic spooky Halloween band out there? 🤔 🤷♂️
I vote YES!
Repeat No Repeat
At 24 seasons & counting, the longest stretch in MLB history without a repeat World Series champion is the one we're in right now: No team has gone back-to-back since the Yankees three-peat (’98–’00).Okay I guess that pretty much just repeated what I'd already said but goddammit I get paid by the word for my Gentlemen's Platinum Club Members.
Xmastime So Sayeth, So Sayeth Xmastime
The only problem with constantly telling everybody you’ve just brought in trillions of dollars is that eventually someone will ask where it is.
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
I'll Say This
If you knew how much of my packing was based around my big dog slippers you'd probably realize it's exactly as much as you'd guess it would be.
Oh My
Seeing the bowl lying there for me to see just as easy as I pleased, seeming to be resting because it knew damn well it was about to do something nobody else could do, makes me think of when you were young & you'd go see one of your favorite bands and while you waited for them to come onstage their guitars & amps were already onstage waiting as well & you just couldn’t believe you were actually looking at the very thing that made the magic you’re in love with.
Another Announcement About the First 100 Days of an Xmastime Presidential Administration
OTHER XMASTIME PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN PROMISES (so far)
- All adults will be able to order off the kids menu at restaurants
- Anybody who brags about how they ONLY will make popcorn the old-fashioned way on their stove top goes directly to jail.
- Life in prison for anyone who gives Joe Walsh a free pass for associating himself with the shittiest/most boring band of all time The Eagles
- I promise to make it illegal for Amazon to sell books that have passed into public domain & can be printed out by any shithead with a printer without making it clear on their site
- I will force McDonalds to get rid of its McRib nonsense
- No more blowing your nose in front of other people
- It will only be legal to run a goddam leaf blower on Saturdays between 8:00am-8:59am. No exceptions.
- Michael Jordan & Charles Barkley have to be best friends again
- Every tv show has to do a dinner murder mystery bottle episode
- Serving sizes will make sense to human beings who don't get paid to be food serving size scientists; for instance, one serving of potato wedges would be "one potato wedge" & not some wildly unhelpful "3 oz" bullshit.
Ideas. I Have Them.
So why haven’t hotels capitalized on this by using these countless onscreen hours for advertising? As in, maybe that person gets their room for free, but there’s a small logo of the hotel in the corner. OR there’s a digital ad in the background as if a poster on the wall behind the person on the call. Has this not happened yet?
Can I get a team of $$$$$ together to make this happen? OR DO YOU NOT WANT TO BACK UP THE MONEY TRUCK PEOPLE, BEEP BEEP BEEP!! 💰 💰 💰 💰
Movie Ideas. I Have Them.
BUT.
The second spacecraft never launches. When the trillionaires get to their new planet & find out the second spaceship’s not coming, they realize that they’re gonna hafta do everything the people in the second spaceship were gonna do for them just to survive, so now these fat cats have gone from crowning themselves as Gods of the New World to scurrying around desperately trying to hunt/find food, build shelter etc but with all the expertise for such things still millions of miles away back on Earth.
I’d watch that shit!
LOOKING FOR INVESTORS PEOPLE!!! 💰💰💰💰
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Il y a 10 Ans Aujourd'hui
See:I have no idea who that terrified person was.
Follow along with my trip via my post highlighting the delightful Instagrams I posted throughout my travels!
Here's one to wet your beak:
Me. I'm Really Happening, Aren't I?
I mean I know I sound like a 4th-grade boy here but I just can't believe this line got through what must be a quite rigorously prohibitive Oreo Cookie approvals gauntlet.
Whoa Whoa Fellas, Easy!
9th UPDATE: You Are Freaking Me Out Now, Apple
Nine Eighteen Twenty-seven Thirty-six Forty-five Fifty-four Sixty-three Seventy-six Eighty-five Ninety-four One hundred & four days ago, I mentioned how strangely fresh an apple in my fruit bowl was looking:
Ever since Super Size Me first came out everybody wants to push some crazy story about how fake the Big Mac is based on it supposedly never rotting away - "OMG Ben Franklin put a Big Mac on his counter and now just two weeks ago the fucking thing learned how to drive a stick shift!!!" - but meanwhile I bought this apple so many weeks ago I can’t remember when and it looks the exact same as when I bought it. 🤔🤷♂️
An Open Letter to Podcasters
I remain,
Xmastime
New Off-Putting Broadway Play Idea
Starring: MAGA Dudes!
LOOKING FOR INVESTORS PEOPLE, LET'S FINALLY BACK UP THAT GODDAM MONEY TRUCK ONCE & FOR ALL!!!! 💰💰💰💰
Opening Sentence of My Next Novel
I'll Say This.
RIP Sybil
In “Fawlty Towers,” which aired on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979 and later on PBS, Ms. Scales elevated the character of exasperated spouse to a new level.Starring opposite John Cleese, who played the high-strung manager of a dysfunctional seaside hotel, Ms. Scales was his elaborately coiffed and impeccably dressed wife who stood as a picture of eye-rolling calm as farce unfolded around her.
Monday, October 27, 2025
Down at the Wegmans
A Statement on America
Republicans come in & act like assholes for a coupla years & then when there’s no more money to scrape up anymore …
Democrats hafta come in & be the adults and clean up the mess
While publicly stating that instead of holding the people who ran rampant with their own ideas of what laws should be accountable for their actions and the destruction they’ve done or tried to do to the American people …
We’re “moving forward”, and that “Americans don’t have the stomach for putting the country through such a tumultuous time” …
And if we can get ONE good thing out of each Democratic administration – Obamacare, Biden’s infrastructure bill – then we could live with knowing that it's only a matter of time before the next Republican shithead rolls back into power
Rinse, lather, repeat.
But thanks to Trump’s Personal Revenge & Retribution Tour, Democrats can no longer do the whole “oh let’s just move forward…” thing since unlawfully jailing your political foes without even hiding that it's 100% fueled by personal vengeance is a bit removed from generic political bullshit; Democrats need to be very clear right now that unless Republicans take steps to reign Trump in then should there ever be another Democratic president, which there may not be, no mercy will be shown to those who most nefariously helped Trump become Our American Hitler.
We know Trump’s gonna be just fine with his tootsies up on a beach somewhere, and we know he’s not gonna lift a finger to return any loyalty to those people anyway, so if this shit keeps going then it needs to be made very clear that should the time come, it will be their Nuremberg moment and their Dear Leader won't be saving them.
Of course I'm not gonna hold me breath for any of this, but I think it still holds as being true.
Out in the Street
RONNIE BARKER FOREVER!
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Vinyl Shoutout + Some Superslice of All Superslices Marah Love
Current Events, with Xmastime!
I'm not quite smart enough to put my finger on it, but whenever I see someone screech about the horrors of socialism while extolling the singular virtue of 2025 capitalism I can’t help but think about this excerpt from a CERtain someone’s debut best non-selling novel:
I handed him his apple juice and turned to the stovetop to finish his plate off with some rice and beans.
“How ‘bout some of these rice n' beans, buddy?”
“No! NO rice n beans!”
The bottom of his sippy cup came slamming down on the island in utter defiance.
“Really? I dunno buddy, they look really, really good.”
My back was to him as I plopped the rice and beans into their correct slot on his plate.
“No! No Rats, no rice n beans!”
“You sure?”
I carried the plate to the island where he defiantly sat, pointing and shouting at me to not even try to feed him that crap.
“No! NO RICE N BEANS!”
“Okay, lil’ buddy, you got it.”
I simply put his plate down in front of him and waited. He looked at the plate, staring at the rice and beans.
“Rats, what’s this?”
“Mexican food.”
Without hesitating he dug in.
A Question About Grant Hart's Fantastic Solo Album INTOLERANCE
Is this the natural successor to his beautiful Flexible Flyer from Husker Du's classic Flip Your Wig?
We Love You Grant Hart! 🤗🕺❤️🥁🎸🥲
State du Moi
Then an instant later the baby's mother popped out of the trash room and strolled away.
Well. I assume it was the baby's mother.
Questions. I Have Them.
Branding I Love du Jour
XMASTIME LIKES!!
Hello Huck!! 🐶🐶🐶🕺❤️🤗 🤣🕺
Conundrums. I Have One.
Will keep you posted!
Xmastime So Sayeth, So Sayeth Xmastime
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Why Bother.
Life is Art is Life (is Art?)
Life. It's Really Happening, Isn't It?
Seinfeld du Jour
Someone just "wrote" an article about how shitty the first season of Seinfeld was, and they seem to think "nobody was ever brave enough to admit this" is the way to go:
I rewatched Seinfeld and realized that season 1 is lackluster and disappointing, and it's a stark contrast to the rest of the series. Despite the praise we still give Seinfeld, I think we all have to realize the first season is weaker than we thought."But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), "didn't you rather bravely rip that season a new asshole all the way back in 2010?"Sigh. Yes I did, faithful readers, YES I did:
Pilot (1989)
Good News Bad News (7/5/89)
Terrible. Although George's bit with the notepad and "why not bring in
another guy?" line is great. And his "I'm aware of you" when Kramer ("Kessler") asks him about commercial real estate.
Season 1 (1990)
The Stakeout (5/31/90)
Blech. Although noteworthy for it being the first episode w/Elaine, the
Loni Anderson bit, and the first time we see George utter the words "Art
Vandelay."
The Robbery (6/7/90)
Awful, except for the Odds/Evens battle and George's later agony over losing it.
Male Unbonding (6/14/90)
Absolutely unfunny except for, again, George. Jason Alexander gets a lot of shit (including from himself) for basically doing a Woody Allen impression this early in the series, but so far he's the only thing worth watching.
The Stock Tip (6/21/90)
Even George couldn't save this one.
Friday, October 24, 2025
Another Announcement About the First 100 Days of an Xmastime Presidential Administration
XMASTIME PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN PROMISES (so far)
- All adults will be able to order off the kids menu at restaurants
- Anybody who brags about how they ONLY will make popcorn the old-fashioned way on their stove top goes directly to jail.
- Life in prison for anyone who gives Joe Walsh a free pass for associating himself with the shittiest/most boring band of all time The Eagles
- I promise to make it illegal for Amazon to sell books that have passed into public domain & can be printed out by any shithead with a printer without making it clear on their site
- I will force McDonalds to get rid of its McRib nonsense
- No more blowing your nose in front of other people
- It will only be legal to run a goddam leaf blower on Saturdays between 8:00am-8:59am. No exceptions.
- Michael Jordan & Charles Barkley have to be best friends again
- Every tv show has to do a dinner murder mystery bottle episode
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Xmastime So Sayeth, So Sayeth Xmastime
Catherine Tate doesn't get enough credit for how funny she was in The Office! 😡🇬🇧
GOOD Capitol
You people know how much I think David Dexter should have his own section in Hell, but the classic Capitol Record rainbow label is 1) a fantastic design 2) a musical Proustian moment for me since as I Sgt. Pepper was the first non-Romper Room or Disco Duck record I ever remember looking at, having found it leaning up against a record player in the back room of the library my mother worked at.
Since of course like any real Beatles fan I make sure all my albums are from the original British Parlophone label I don't have a Capitol version of Sgt. Pepper thank you very much, but I Am the Walrus was recorded just a couple months after Sgt. Pepper and the Magical Mystery Tour LP only comes out on Capitol so I had to buy it....listening right now brings me back to finding Sgt. Pepper in that back room & then hearing it for the first time; while it would still take me a decade or two to grow up & fall in love with their music, I always consider that moment in the back room of the library to be the first step I took to get there.
Goldfish Review
FIRST OF ALL: you people know how much I love love love my Cheddar Goldfish!
But you people also know how much I love my Snoopy & the Peanuts gang
so of course I lit up when I saw these:
Ummmmmm...is this rabbit food? Or rabbit turds? 😬
As I told my goddaughter, a fellow Peanuts fan, it turns out they’re COOKIES, not crackers, which makes more sense. A bit of a letdown, but only because the expectations were too high - I mean they’re supposed to be Goldfish!! 😜🤣🤣🕺 I probably won’t get them again but hey like I said I love the packaging so 🤷♂️. 😜🕺 🕺🤗🐶What a Total Fuckwad
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