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  The tech world was rocked (not actually) last week when (now former) Google employee James Damore’s “manifesto” was leaked to the Internet. In his screed, Damore claims, essentially, that women are biologically “different” (read: inferior) and that he is being oppressed by not being allowed to openly make such claims in his workplace. We’ll get to his claims in just a moment, but first, a brief diversion into the perpetual victimhood of Manmerica. Every one of us who is a parent, or who is older, knows one truth: that every younger generation (that includes us) repeats the same behaviors of the older generations, allRead More →

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  “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States […] They will be met with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before.” I was planning on writing something else entirely today, and not entirely trump-related, although trump-inspired, but then I read those words, and I decided that my other topic could wait at least another day. 27 years ago, I was serving as a security specialist in the U.S. Air Force. This meant that I spent my days and nights trying to stay awake under the guise of preventing anything terrible happening toRead More →

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  I had a conversation today with a resentful right winger. He tried to play the Democrats-are-the-racists-because-Lincoln-freed-the-slaves-and-he-was-a-Republican-and-the-Democrats-started-the-KKK card in our discussion. One of the other conversation participants mentioned the Dixiecrats and his response was, “Oh, the Dixiecrats! You guys always bring them up.” By that time, the conversation was winding down, but that stuck with me. When we are having a “discussion” with right wingers on the Internet, there is always this effort to explain how the parties flip-flopped on their ideas of race, and how the Civil Rights Movement was the final straw that sent Southern Democrats (Dixiecrats) to the Republicans for the foreseeableRead More →

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I decided to take a month off from this. Every now and then, one must give ones’ self a break from the bullshit….. Trying to keep up with trump’s daily slights against humanity can be demoralizing. —Imbecile.     “The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains. It came by the pound and the ton, it hacked at the jungle and cut the trees like scissorsRead More →

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  The Secret Service has moved out of trump tower, and into a trailer on the sidewalk. The reason they gave was that the lease required by trump tower was greater than they believed fair for the government to pay. According to The Washington Post, “The Secret Service has vacated its command post inside Trump Tower in Manhattan following a dispute between the government and President Trump’s company over the terms of a lease for the space, according to two people familiar with the discussions.” The Secret Service was forced to establish a command post in the gaudy gold monstrosity after trump became the presumptiveRead More →

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For a time today, this was the top story at FoxNews.com: This was reported by Crooks and Liars. Shortly afterward, this story was toppled from the top spot by some Argl-Brgl about Hillary’s emails. I know. Shocking, right? Hillary’s emails? What is this, August, 2016? Anyway, as Crooks and Liars reported, this was the top story on Fox News for some time today. Why does this matter? Well, for lots of reasons, but mainly, because immigration is brand new all over again within the trump administration. After the humiliating failure on trump’s part to pass a Billionaire Tax Relief Bill disguised as health care reform,Read More →

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During the Obama years I pointed out the right wing’s indiscriminate and wholesale destruction of anyone who was so unfortunate as to wander – however briefly or haplessly – into close orbital proximity of the Kenyan usurper and black anti-Christ. There was the Obama/Charlie Crist welcome-to-Florida hug which spurred conservatives into freakout mode, costing Crist a subsequent Senate race and erasing forever the capital (R) behind his name.  And lest we forget; there’s the handshake and hand-on-shoulder embrace between Gov. Chris Christie and the President, arriving at the Newark airport to tour Jersey Shore’s Hurricane Sandy devastation, which sent the GOP base into conniptions.  Christie’sRead More →

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Do you like jokes? Funny ones? Knee-slapping, tell-your-friends-the-very-next-time-you-see-them funny? Jokes so goddamned hilarious that Dane Cook would murder his entire family for the chance to finally get a joke his audience would laugh at? Well, get a load of this doozy shared by our president last Friday while speaking to a bunch of cops in New York: “When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon. You just see them thrown in — rough. I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice.’ Like, don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody, don’t hit their head. I said, ‘You can takeRead More →

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Reince Priebus – Chief of Staff; jumped (pushed?) Sean Spicer – Press Secretary; jumped Rex Tillerson – Secretary of State; threatened to jump, was talked down Michael Dubke – Communications Director; jumped Walter Shaub – Director, Office of Government Ethics; jumped James Comey – FBI Director; pushed Michael Flynn – National Security Advisor; pushed Sally Yates – Acting Attorney General; pushed Preet Bharara – U.S. Attorney; pushed Katie Walsh – Deputy Chief of Staff; jumped Melania Trump – First Lady; attempted to jump; yanked back by leash These are the high-profile members of the ss trump who either jumped or were pushed overboard since thisRead More →

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Yeah, I know, everyone’s quoting Queen every time they reference Anthony Scaramucci, but don’t hate the game, hate the player who makes himself such an easy fucking target. Little Douche the Mooch is trying to out-Stephen-Miller Stephen Miller. Remember Stephen Miller, the thin-featured 80s action-movie-villain who swore that the president’s powers would not be questioned? Well, Little Douche the Mooch won’t play second fiddle to such a weaselly looking twerp, and is quickly establishing himself as the second most famous character from American Psycho to come to life in the trump administration (those reflective aviator sunglasses aren’t going to date-rape themselves, you know). So howRead More →