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COVID-19 appears to kill gaslighting.

Whoa…I’m not hearing, “Coronavirus is like the flu, quit worrying.” as often as I did a few days ago. According to Donald Trump’s news conference yesterday, COVID-19 now qualifies as a national emergency. So…no. It’s not yet another attempt by the libs to tank the stock market because they’re all jealous and envious of Donald […]

I’m not a socialist. You have billionaires’ peni up your bum. That’s the problem.

This hysteria about the dreaded communism demon from people who let the 1% take advantage is getting dumb(er). Not gonna be a long post. I’ll link to others below, similar subjects. Read those if this one intrigues you.  For historical reference, we’re about to hit Super Tuesday. I like that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren […]

If America is going Porky’s, Melania Trump makes an ideal First Lady.

“Make America Great Again” means “Give Whites Every Systemic Advantage Again.” Part III in my series, “America: The Porky’s of It All.” Part I. Part II. BIG OL’ DISCLAIMER TO START OFF THIS POST: if you came here thinking that you’re going to read some viciously bro-tastic slut-shaming directed at Melania Trump due to the […]

Yes indeed, bro. The phrase “White Men Built This Country” is racist.

Unearned senses of superiority keep America…what’s the word…America’ing. Lots of angry white dudes out there these days. For many, anger might the only thing they have left.  Wages have stagnated. Jobs have been automated. On top of that, more than a few of these dudes are constipated. And despite all of the stresses put upon […]

Circus seals pretending to be Navy SEALs.

A few thoughts about this “civil war” thingie. (Quotes intentional.) Something about this news story link feels so…so…so Don. TL;DR: his administration wants to exhume bodies of American war veterans in order to build his border wall through the cemetery.  Take a step back and think about that idea…very Don-Don-esque, isn’t it? Plus, he knows that this […]

Let’s talk about America’s closeted communists.

“Whenever the government provides opportunities in privileges for white people and rich people they call it ‘subsidized’ when they do it for Negro and poor people they call it ‘welfare.’ The fact that is the everybody in this country lives on welfare.” — Martin Luther King, The Minister to the Valley, 2/2/68 THIS JUST IN: Guys […]

Understand the “America” in “Make America Great Again.” Watch the movie Porky’s.

This Reagan-era T&A flick contains more insight about our modern times and the Trump presidency than you realize. This post expands on an earlier post of mine, America is under siege from the guys in Porky’s.  TL;DR: I wrote about being a white male who got to travel through my late boyhood/early teen times during […]

A gigantic thank you, from me to Rush Limbaugh.

You deserve some credit for my first book. Hi, Rushton.  We don’t know each other. And never will. I heard about your cancer news and don’t care. No. That’s not quite right. It’s more like a few good people in my life have died of lung cancer and I would gladly trade you and some […]

Something odd-but-not-odd about Trumpsters using the words of Caligula as one of their war cries.

“Oderint Dum Metuant…Let them hate as long as they fear.” — A guy who committed lots of incest with his sisters and made his favorite horse a Roman Senator, then declared war on the god Poseidon. This won’t be a long post. For reference, chickenhawks who are too lazy to join the military want a […]

I just witnessed a scene from my book. It was trippy.

Whoa…my fiction just showed up in a coffeehouse. Turning reality into fiction is a blast. Something inspires me, the details of a moment run around inside my head, then—however many months/years later, whenever—these details rematerialize as a scene or two in a story. Only sometimes, a scene from a fictional story happens in the real […]