Finally

 Fast away the old year passes, but not fast enough.  I hate years that raise your hopes and then serve you a pie like the one in The Help.


You know what I mean and if you don't, see the movie.  I'm trying to swear less in the new year.

Ridah bin Saleh al-Yazidi is having a happy new year.  Since 2002 he has been locked up in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp without being charged with a crime.  The Biden administration has transferred al-Yazidi, now 59, to the custody of the Tunisian government.  He could sue, but it wouldn't do much good.  Fifteen prisoners remain; they were never charged either.  Remember the War on Terror?  We lost.

Colorado state representative Matt Soper is seeing the old year out the way he saw it in -- hateful and semiliterate:


This load ran unopposed.  Delta must be a hemorrhoid on the ass of Colorado.  Soper apologized after sobering up from his "Champaigne" binge, so he gets to have it both ways.  


The District of Columbia mayor's office and Department of Transportation are not exactly obeying in advance, but they're nervous about being accused of paying for this handsome placard.  (The book says "Project 2025.")  They blame a "rogue vandal," which is a fine name for a band.

A day after the Musk sac invited his critics to "FUCK YOURSELF in the face," Steve Bannon riposted that he should "sit in the back and study" or "we're going to rip your face off."  Is there a way they can keep this going for four years, or until one of them loses an entire face?  I could set up a GoFundMe.

Remember when Trump hated (grrr!) TikTok because those whippersnappers used it to book tickets for his Tulsa hatefest so the venue would look half-empty?  And then a man named Yass who owns a lot of TikTok bailed out failing Trump Media, and now he loves TikTok and wants the Supreme Court to rule against a law that requires Yass to sell his part of it.  Question:  Wouldn't it be cheaper to bribe the Sleazy Six?  An RV here, a vacation there, a couple cases of beer for you-know-who -- do the math.


One thing you can count on -- low-information voters (as the euphemism has it) will always fall for the right's lies.  The day after Brexit passed in the UK there were searches for "What is Brexit?" by people who had voted for it.  To be that stupid must be like living with a constant migraine.  Tariffs are the solution.  Mexico will pay for the wall.  Leaving the EU will free a thousand gazillion pounds a day for the NHS.  How did George Carlin put it?  "You know how dumb the average person is?  Half of all people are dumber than that."

Stay safe.  Be smart.  Don't overdo the "Champaigne."  We need one another.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

I hate the poorly educated...

Image
 ...when they insist on electing one another. There's a halfwit running for governor of  Missour i on a promise to burn books outside the governor's mansion if it's the only way to protect children from "vulgar pornographic material."  It's not clear what set him off, probably The Diary of Anne Frank again.  If his flamethrower is out of gas, he is also open to bulldozing or "launching books into outer space," which is certainly creative.  (The flamethrower may displace the AR-15 as America's National Weapon, depending on how high Biden drives the price of gasoline.)    Book burning is nothing new, Gott weiss,  but its mainstreaming marks a new phase in American barbarism.  We know what we mean by Orwellian and Kafkaesque -- perhaps we need a new word:  Bradburian, and not only for the destruction of books and what they represent.  In Fahrenheit 451  Ray Bradbury posited a future where firemen would start fires instead of putti...
Read more

Going out of business

Image
 With polls sounding a death knell and red-hats leaving his rallies like they left the oven on, Trump has dimly seen his future.  That's why Trumpworld is holding a sale on all Bibles, gold sneakers (pre- and post-assassination styles), Victory47 cologne ("My eyes!  My eyes!") and the limited-edition Trump diapers: Get a jump on your Christmas shopping and remember who made it possible to say "Merry Christmas" again with a fabulous  Trump Victory Tourbillon watch,  only $100,000.  Three colors, 122 diamonds, only 147 available.  Or a shoddier version for $499 if you're impoverished by Bidenomics.  Profits will not go to the campaign, the website says, and when has Trump ever lied? "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress -- but I repeat myself," said Mark Twain, who died in 1910, so maybe it's always been this way.   Tommy Tuberville,  football's worst mistake, thinks Kamala Harris should drop out of the...
Read more

Full disclosure

Image
 With Trump and his silk pajamas in recess, the political story of the day must be  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,  sharing the story that a worm crawled into his brain, ate some of it and died.  The New York Times says it obtained a deposition from his 2012 divorce case and came across this nugget.  At the time of the parasite's discovery, doctors said he also had mercury poisoning, probably from eating a lot of fish.  In the deposition Kennedy says, "I have short-term memory loss and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me."  At least he doesn't blame the worm on vaccines.  Even before his stalking horse earned the nickname Worm Brain, things were going Trump's way.  His boutique judge  Aileen Cannon  postponed indefinitely the stolen documents case that mean old Jack Smith is waiting to present because she has to study eight pending motions from the defense and she's just stumped by their  "novel and difficult questions." ...
Read more