15 Friday Feb 2019
Posted in Clowns, Grateful Dead, Poetry, Quantum, Spirituality
each instrument
a coil of muscle
stretching the length of
the python of song
bass notes wrap and spiral
as guitar circle prey
the piano a calliope
confusion takes form
drummers raise pressure
burning one fuse
energy builds thick
tensions reach critical
but for you there
the darkness is now
in your tiny space
as your spirit takes flight
18 Sunday Mar 2018
Posted in Brain Droppings, Clowns, Conspiracies, Dingleberries, Environment, Guns, Hate, Indivisible, Mental Health, Middle Way, Open mind, Patriotism, Politics, Spirituality, Terrorism, Trump-Hole
It is a practically universally accepted fact that the Russians have been trying to interfere with democratic elections all over the world, including in the United States, where they appear to have been successful.
It is also a near universally accepted fact that human activities are contributing to rapid climate change, and endangering the planet and the human race, and that this activity is directly linked to the burning of fossil fuels.
So, do you suppose that it’s by accident that the only notable exceptions in each of these cases is a group of politically linked, right-wing individuals, who have built a news echo chamber so efficient that even facts are unable penetrate it?
03 Saturday Feb 2018
Posted in Clowns, Dingleberries, Emotional Intelligence, Middle Way, Politics, Quantum, Trump-Hole
After a really long, and stressful day, I wanted to watch something mindless and funny. It had been a while since I’d seen Back To The Future, it fit the bill, so I kicked back and put it on. Forget about the political crap at work. Who cares about the stupid Nunes memo.
And man, Huey Lewis was the epitome of 80’s music, huh?
Anyway, so there I am, watching this inconsequentially mindless movie, taking a momentary break from reality, when I see him… Donald Trump, again.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, a few years ago, Back To The Future writer, Bob Gale, confirmed that his inspiration for one of the all-time perfect movie ‘bullies‘, Biff from Back To The Future, was in fact Donald Trump.
So, again, the Mango Mussolini ends up on my TV screen. But not even the real one this time. No. Instead, I get the bad caricature of Donald Trump. The overly amplified parts; the bad hair combover, the condescending attitude, the insulting of anyone, and the treating of everyone like crap.
Seriously?! why? Why? WHY?! Why would anyone vote for someone like this? I mean Jesus Christ, Trump is such a heinous person that he was easily immortalized as the ultimate high school douchebag in the movies!
“Hello, hello, anybody home? Think, Nunes, think. I gotta have time to get this retyped. Do you realize what would happen if I release the memo in your handwriting? I’ll get impeached. You wouldn’t want that to happen would you? Would you?”
No, Donald. Not at All.
23 Saturday Sep 2017
As reports surface of an “earthquake” in North Korea in the area where they recently tested a hydrogen bomb, it makes you think.
Nuclear brinksmanship is a strategy that has more in common with a game of chicken in a couple of 1970’s muscle cars, than it does with chess. Primarily because it’s more about testosterone, than it is about tactics. For that matter, I have little doubt that Trump, or Kim, would be willing to “whip it out” if it came to that.
It seems like we are getting further away from having leaders who can recognize that humility and compromise can be far more powerful than posturing, or bravado will ever be. Add to that a few latent daddy issues, some questionable mental stability, a bad haircut, and an ever-present entourage of people who are too afraid to disagree with you out loud, and you end up right where we are now. The worst part is, you can’t even tell which one of these two knuckleheads I’m talking about!
Besides, neither one of them cares enough about the people they represent to risk their own reputation by actually wondering if the other guy is serious or not. It’s a choreographed tap dance in a field full of cow pies. And, if you’re wondering how it all ends, you’re in luck, the whole thing gets played out in this 3 minute video.
26 Sunday Feb 2017
Posted in Clowns, Dingleberries, Emotional Intelligence, Middle Way, Politics, Trump-Hole
The Republican Party has learned little from the people. They are still trying to figure out how they ended up with Donald Trump as they’re leader. But, obviously they are willing to go with it for now, since they can use it to push their agenda through for a little while.
The Democratic Party, on the other hand, seems to have learned… well, about the same.
After a crushing defeat in the 2016 elections that left the country with an unstable megalomanic in charge, and after having been caught with their pants down for rigging the primaries in favor of an unpopular establishment candidate over an extremely popular independent, they have shown once again, that they can veer even further off course.
Having your party chair step down mid-election, because she was exposed for rigging the primaries, is bad. Having your vice-chair leave mid-election so she could ethically back the popular independent, leaves an ethics drain at the top. And then to have your interim-chair involved in a scandal about leaking debate questions to the “preferred” candidate, reinforced people’s concerns.
Now the DNC has elected a new chair. It wasn’t the chairperson that Bernie Sanders backed. Nope, they went with the party loyalist again. Showing that, what Click and Clack proved was correct. Behold! The Andy Scale can now be used to efficiently rate the United States Government!
“Posit the question: Do two people who don’t know what they are talking about know more or less than one person who doesn’t know what he’s talking about?
Amazingly enough, you proved that even in a case where one person might know nothing about a subject, it is possible for two people to know even less!
One person will only go so far out on a limb in his construction of deeply hypothetical structures, and will often end with a shrug or a raising of hands to indicate the dismissability of his particular take on a subject. With two people, the intricacies, the gives and takes, the wherefores and why-nots, can become a veritable pas-de-deux of breathtaking speculation, interwoven in such a way that apologies or gestures of doubt are rendered unnecessary.”
07 Saturday Jan 2017
Posted in Clowns, Conspiracies, Dingleberries, Middle Way, Patriotism, Politics, Trump-Hole
The Great Shell Game begins
22 Tuesday Nov 2016
Posted in Clowns, Conspiracies, Middle Way, Patriotism, Politics, Trump-Hole
Now let me preface this by saying that I honestly don’t give a shit if Melanie stays in Trump Tower with her kid since it is the middle of a school year… I totally get that.
However, I am curious about all of those friends of mine who got furious and posted irate FB posts about how much it’s costing taxpayers every time the Obamas took a plain old family vacation. Splitting the First Family like this is really an unprecedented arrangement and will cost taxpayers a whole lot more than many, many vacations.
I say this because I know fiscal conservatives must be very concerned.
06 Thursday Oct 2016
Posted in Clowns, Middle Way, Terrorism
If you think about it, the news is only showing one clown at a time. But there may be cars full of them driving around out there getting ready to unload.
Sleep well.
