"When I do not want to say things in real life I often say them here." — Mimi Smartypants
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Horrible things are happening to innocent people in Israel and Gaza. No more horrible than what’s happening to innocents in Ukraine and Yemen and I could go on, and one person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter, but this is a time when sides must be taken and I take Israel’s.
I don’t say NPR stands for Nice Polite Republicans just to be mean. And don’t even get me started on the rest of the mainstream media.
September 23, 2023: A reader commented on this 11-year-old post today, thanking me for the tips about riding motorcycles in the vicinity of cars. I don’t do a lot of this, but I’m putting the post back to the top of the blog where new readers might see it. It’s not a very distant look […]
I hope this post triggers the fuck out of any anti-vaxxers who happen to read it.
Hoping for rain in this part of the country is always one of those be-careful-what-you-wish-for deals.
Hola, amigos! It’s been a while since I’ve posted a bag’s worth o’ miscellany.
I was around in the boys’ club days of the Air Force, when NCO and officers’ clubs would bring in strippers, hard-working women who earned every dollar we stuffed in their G strings while fending off our drunken attempts to grope them. Nothing but respect. But those days are over.
Phrases and brainworms stuck in my mind after skimming online news sites this morning: shooter on a scooter, half-Jewish Superman, how often should you poop. The last a question, not a recommendation. Comes to that, I think the answer is “when you have to.” And the scooter shooter? It must be near impossible to aim […]