Category Archives: Comments and Observations

Well, it was a good ride I guess

“You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you!” – Colonel Geoge Taylor, “Planet of the Apes”

Oh, I know. The sun comes up, the globe still spins.

I mean, I *am* a pessimist. I generally see the worst in things though my wife and son have helped with that.

But we’ve got a rapist felon heading back to the presidency and – if nothing shady happened – millions of folks put him there because this country just CANNOT fathom the concept of a female as president.

That’s it.

No policy arguments (there are none), no economic angle (Republicans ALWAYS fuck up the economy and yet always seem to get a pass on that). Ethics? Morals? Religion? The guy likely raped a 13 year old girl. You really want to go there Christians?

Nah, I just feel bad for the kids. My kid.

We collectively fucked their futures over in so many ways. And hell, their present to boot. A few will actually die from this, or be violently abused and harmed in ways we haven’t even thought of yet.

They deserve better. All of them. Instead they have us.

From rodeos to radio, inside the Arizona fight against misinformation

NPR – when it isn’t airing Trump without any editorial content or clarification that he’s lying – is trying to highlight stories from swing states.

I mean, I want to wish them well, but they have been SO bad over the past decade, at least, but let’s give them this moment.

I’ll highlight some of these stories because they apparently need the encouragement to do the right thing. I gave up being a sustainer a few years ago and I don’t regret it much.

Anyway, here’s a story from Aryzona, where Spanish language radio is part of the process of getting the real story out this election year.

Tolkkinen: Minnesota has become a state with two flags

No…

We have one flag. There’s an old flag that hasn’t been replaced or is being held on to by racists and curmudgeons.

That’s it.

I see a lot of businesses that went hard into this, buying pristine new versions of the old flag and trying to make some kind of statement by it.

Only statement they made is that they don’t want my money. And that maybe they hate Native Americans and have a kink for slavery.

Just get used to this one. It is a better look all around.

Kamala Harris doesn’t owe the national press anything

The same mass media that will stop everything to air a Donald Trump fart but never fact check a thing a Republican says, demands to know why Kamala Harris won’t sit for their loaded questions.

I mean, she picked a VP choice who spent decades in the National Guard only to be attacked by some 4 year REMF Marine and they took the couch fucker’s side. Gee, wonder why they aren’t thinking they’d get fair treatment.

Hell, I even called out our local NPR affiliate and actually had a reporter question whether I really believed they were biased. I provided examples. Haven’t heard back.

Figures.

So, yeah, fuck ’em.