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The guy who gets fragged by his own guys as war hero.

Year-end thoughts about modern Right wing masculinity and the USA. I am posting a day after Texas’ RWT AG/MAGAt Ken Paxton announced that his office would involve itself in a case and use their authority to force a woman to carry a nearly-dead fetus. Even though the unborn child will die while still in the […]

2023: a bad year to be the poster boy for trickle-down economics.

• American inequality is rising despite higher wages (CNN)• Why Elon Musk’s ‘f— yourself’ Dealbook moment wasn’t the worst part of the interview (MSNBC)*** According to some who were born with shit-for-brains, he invented the electric car. Other ignoramuses see him as a once-in-a-generation mastermind, one who builds rockets in his spare time using his […]

The Donald Trump Tax, part III.

Why the wealthy fellas who didn’t vote for Donald Trump in 2016 need to pay more.  Part I. Part II. USA TODAY: Donald Trump’s use of the word ‘vermin’ draws more comparisons to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini *** Let’s venture back in time… It’s December 2016. The Holidays. Yeah…your ears are taking in the mix: jinglebells, […]

Anti-Semites for Israel

I am both horrified and saddened by the unfolding Israel-Hamas conflict that got spurred by the October 7th attack on innocent Israelis. Stories of Palestinian civilians dying in the resulting IDF strikes continue to be told. Which lead to new incidents against Israelis. An awful cycle. We humans have done this before. The thing is, […]

A chart named Bob.

When I saw this chart for the first time, the initial thought that popped into my head was, Well looky here, it’s Bob. Bob, but in chart form. I used to work with Bob. You might have worked with Bob. Ever done a stint for a company that was owned by a publicly-traded entity or a […]

The lesson of the Titan sub tragedy: #TaxTheRich.

NPR: Experts raised safety concerns about OceanGate years before its Titanic sub vanished.WaPo: Titan sub CEO Stockton Rush spoke of ‘discount’ parts “We have heard the baseless cries of ‘you are going to kill someone’ way too often. I take this as a serious personal insult.” — Deceased OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush Wealthy bros and […]

Open letter to myself posing all happy and smiley beside my first book.

You released Fearkiller (Volume 1), ten years ago. Its inspirations are alive and well. Hey there, my dude.  Doing some archiving and found this pic. It was taken some time in February of 2013. Memory Lane. You got mileage out of that hat, wore it until one of the ears fell off.  And, yeah…Fearkiller 1…in Tattered […]

Attention, my fellow non-MAGAt, non-Jewish white people: Ye is not our problem. Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk are our problems.

“Nazis…I hate these guys.” — Indiana Jones*** Posting near the end of a day of shrewdness on the part of the American Right. Ammosexual chickenhawk Alex Jones invited rapper Ye to appear on his show and…you know…”explain” his anti-Semitic views. I won’t diminish Ye’s role. He said what he said and no one forced him […]

Big chickenhawk energy. Part II.

Bonespurs is running for POTUS in ’24. And the woman-hating white supremacists who do not serve in the military, but act like it, could not be more excited. B.C.E. Part I.***Donald Trump did something smart, everyone. Seriously. I’m not bullshitting you here. His brain showed that it can function. Really, that makeup-covered noggin proved the […]

Big chickenhawk energy.

Right-wingers become warlike when rich white guys buy companies and fire people. ‘Chickenhawk’ (chicken hawk or chicken-hawk) is a political term used in the United States to describe a person who is a war hawk yet actively avoids or avoided military service when of age. In political usage, chickenhawk is a compound of chicken (meaning […]