Buttermilk Sky

 I climb out of a sickbed and confront a world in more chaos than the late summer of 1939.  What the hell is going on?   The last best hope of mankind has been turned into a gangster state with kidnapping, extortion and brazen threats on three continents.  This kind of lawlessness should have been answered not with demurrals and editorials but with a January 6-size mob besieging the former White House or wherever these Republicanazis are holed up, with full media coverage when the inevitable shooting starts.  The world from Copenhagen to Bogota has made itself heard -- let them know we stand with them.  Put the creatures in the concentration camps they built for us.  The sooner we act, the lower will be the price that had to be paid in 1945. Nicolas Maduro may not be worth saving but neither was Stalin, as many people asserted at the time.  The international order and the rule of law are always worth saving and right now Trump is the Hitler-s...

 In no particular order, some items of interest: Brian Cole,  the man arrested for planting bombs at the DNC and RNC offices on January 5, 2021, has not yet entered a plea, but his attorney says he suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder as well as autism spectrum disorder and would like to be released from jail.  Given the HHS obsession with autism and Cole's statement that he planned to take part in the Trump coup the next day, he'll probably get his wish. In Florida House bill 917 would make it illegal to discriminate against patients based on vaccination status and also make  ivermectin  (horse dewormer) available without a prescription to "expand parental authority."  As hospitalizations spike due to the A-H3N2 "super flu" variant and  measles  cases are the highest in thirty years, we need to make it easier for idiots to kill themselves.  And unfortunately, their children. Trump likes nothing better than pardoning his fellow criminal...

 This may be the most poignant thing I have read all year. Cardozo High School  in Queens, New York, has banned cell phones and announced it to be a success.  Students are less distracted in class, move more efficiently through the halls and actually talk to one another at lunch.  There is an unexpected problem, though:  many cannot read the clocks on the walls. It's universal.  British  schools  have begun removing analog clocks from exam rooms because the students' inability to read the time increases anxiety.  Many American schools are doing the same, and Cardozo will probably follow.  I knew kids could no longer write in cursive even to sign their names, and rotary phones might as well be butter churns, but replacing beautiful clocks like the ones in old train stations with sterile digital displays saddens me more than I can say.  I-phones can, with a few taps, unlock all the information we spent hours learning in the before tim...

 So....did you "enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!"?  I don't know what he  meant  by that barely veiled threat, either.  It was the end of a long night that began with lying to a child about how nice and clean  coal is and obviously involved a lot of pharmaceuticals.  Maybe nothing, maybe concentration camps we haven't heard about yet.  Does this look well to you? In addition, he seems to have shunt holes in both hands.  Maybe from dementedly shaking every hand within reach, as the Leavitt would say, forgetting that they work there.  Maybe they hook up two bottles at a time and periodically reverse them, as with Catch-22' s patient in white.  Who even cares?  Do the world a favor and die with the year, you malodorous pile of hamburger discharge. Where was I?  Well, Dear Leader put in a busy weekend, conveying Moscow's demands to a tired-looking President Zelenskyy and wasting his time.  Today he meets Prim...

I was going to speculate on how worthless a human-appearing life form has to be to ruin Christmas for an eight-year-old already on the cusp of not believing in Santa Claus, but what's the point?  Let's spend some time with good thoughts.  Vituperation will resume on Monday. Ahmed al-Ahmed,  the hero of Bondi Beach, is still recuperating in a Sydney hospital, where he was astonished when Zachery Dereniowski presented him with a check for $1.65 million dollars, $2.5 million in Australian dollars.  "I deserve it?" he asked.  Dereniowski is described as a Canadian YouTuber and social media influencer who tries to get people to be kind to one another, and who got over 43,000 people to contribute to a GoFundMe.  Al-Ahmed's medical bills are comped by the Australian people but he has two young children and can certainly use the money.   In addition, more than 20,000 Australians queued for hours to donate blood after the attack.  One man who is O-neg...

  I found a card that matches my mood.   Someone should tell Trump that if he airs his grievances every day, Festivus won't be special.  Over the last 24 hours we've been treated to a cornucopia of frothing rage.  Still obsessed with the 2020 election and his ass-kicking at the hands of Joe Biden, he re-Truthed a missive from a lawyer named Joshua Hall alleging that some tabulator tapes in Fulton County  were not correctly signed and demanded that Brian Kemp, Brad Raffensperger and Ruby Freeman be locked up right now!!!  Even if everything hinged on a clerical error, Georgia would not be enough to win him the Electoral College.  Also, five years have passed.  Does he want to go back in time?  Yes, he does.  Dementia. The obsession with comedians is also ongoing.  Having already proclaimed all criticism "sedition" and "treason," he's screaming for the  networks  to lose their "licenses."  "All they do is hit Trump...