{"id":20642,"date":"2017-06-02T12:12:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=20642"},"modified":"2017-06-02T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T19:29:00","slug":"leave-kathy-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=20642","title":{"rendered":"Leave Kathy Alone!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"crocker2007\"Lemme know when Kathy Griffin starts murdering people on the Metro. Then maybe I’ll give a shit about the message she’s sending. I thought the mock beheading photo was timely, appropriate, and well within the bounds of acceptable political discourse.\u00a0And anyway,\u00a0who’s to say HBO didn’t stage the whole thing\u00a0… the photo, the social media meltdown, the apology … as a teaser\u00a0for the final season of Game of Thrones? Huh? Betcha didn’t think of that!<\/p>\n

I was dismayed to hear USAA’s going to advertise on Sean Hannity’s TV and radio shows, but then I learned they they were going to start advertising on Rachel Maddow’s show too. A\u00a0while back, apparently, USAA had stopped airing ads on shows they considered partisan. Now they’ve\u00a0had second thoughts and decided to start advertising again, doing business with right- and left-wing outlets. This set off another social media curfuffle (look it up<\/a>, kerfuffle-head), but I’m not joining the boycott.\u00a0We’ve been with USAA since I joined the military in 1973. Over the years we’ve filed\u00a0a few claims, and they’ve always been great. And by great I mean great: fast, courteous, honest, the works. Claims are where it counts, and USAA’s\u00a0always come through. They also pay\u00a0annual dividends, and last year’s was a decent hunk of change.<\/p>\n

We’re\u00a0staying the course. If USAA wants to follow the Swiss model and do business with everyone, I’m okay with that. Hannity is a stupid man and a partisan hack, but he’s not in the same league as racist hate-mongers like Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones. USAA, I hope you’re not going to advertise with that lot … I’ll change my decision in a heartbeat, you hear?<\/p>\n

Surely entrepreneurs are already selling stickers and decals\u00a0of Kathy Griffin holding the severed bloody\u00a0head of Donald Trump. I don’t have the guts to put anything like that on my USAA-insured car, but two days ago I ordered\u00a0a white oval bumper sticker with a single word on it: resist. Least I can do. Never forget that we, the people, voted for Hillary Clinton, and that the current occupant of the White House is\u00a0illegitimate, literally #NotOurPresident.<\/p>\n

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\"Brlla\"<\/a>A\u00a0friend is undergoing chemo and just returned\u00a0home from two weeks in hospital. Her immune system is down\u00a0and she can’t have pets\u00a0in the house; her dog’s with us for the time being. Bella is a little jumpy yappy\u00a0thing, but she’s settling down fast, taking lessons in chill from Maxie and me.<\/p>\n

Hey, I thought about that “in hospital.” Not long ago I’d have made a point of saying “in the hospital” like a good American. But we don’t say “in the hospice,” now, do we? No, we say “in hospice.”<\/p>\n

Donna’s in Las Vegas for Quentin’s eighth-grade graduation. Am I allowed to say, without anyone thinking I don’t love my grandson, that middle-school graduations are a crock? I mean, exactly what is that middle-school diploma worth? I know, I’m griping about modern times like some lame-ass old, but I am<\/em>\u00a0old. My generation went to work in the coal mines as soon as\u00a0we were old enough to swing a pick. Middle-school graduations, forsooth!<\/p>\n

I think after Donna comes home Sunday we’ll start looking for another miniature dachshund.\u00a0We raised Schatzi from a puppy, taught her everything she knew. So we’re not going to look for an adult dog but another puppy instead, even though it’s a lot of work. It’s worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lemme know when Kathy Griffin starts murdering people on the Metro. Then maybe I’ll give a shit about the message she’s sending. I thought the mock beheading photo was timely, appropriate, and well within the bounds of acceptable political discourse.\u00a0And anyway,\u00a0who’s to say HBO didn’t stage the whole thing\u00a0… the photo, the social media meltdown, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,40,250,10,2,8,827,21],"tags":[2320,148,2319,579,1269],"class_list":["post-20642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerism","category-critters","category-culture-wars","category-current-events","category-personal","category-politics","category-social-media","category-words","tag-resist","tag-donald-trump","tag-kathy-griffin","tag-sean-hannity","tag-usaa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20642"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20664,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642\/revisions\/20664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}