New Show idea, The Alberta Hillbillies
...then one day he was shootin' at some food and up from the ground came a-bubblin' crude... From The Ballad of the Beverly HillbilliesI haven't seen this diaried yet and it seemed important so here...
View ArticleMerry Theftmas!
Just in time for the holiday season a major ID theft has been reported at TargetThe nation's second largest discounter said Thursday that data connected to about 40 million credit and debit card...
View ArticleTo no one's surprise, NPR blows it
And by blows I mean sucks and by it I mean Chris Christie's dick.If you can stomach several minutes of hot, steamy Republican pr0n read the NPR coverage of Governor Christie's press conference.For...
View ArticleDuck off -- Duck Dynasty quacking up
So many puns, so little time.It looks like being a bunch of posers as well as racists and homophobes really ain't a great way to run a dynasty.'Duck Dynasty' rating slide continuesThe second episode of...
View ArticleWill Dilbert be banned in Russia?
So today I clicked on my Dilbert comic button in my browser and get treated to this..http://www.dilbert.com/...Asok the intern is now gay to protest the Indian Supreme Court's recent ruling. From Scott...
View ArticleMy town kind of blew up last night
First the good news, nobody was seriously hurt. But over night, at around 3:45 PDT, an apparent natural gas leak exploded in my town of North Bend, WA.The building at the center of the blast had...
View ArticleDear Phil Robertson, shut the duck up.
Well you knew this was coming. More anti-gay bile from America's Favorite Bigot.Duck Dynasty "star" likens gays to thieves and adulterers 'bound for Hell'His comments are included in a sermon delivered...
View ArticleAnother tragic expression of "freedumb" in PA Hospital
WTFJuly 24 (Reuters) - Three people were shot at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pennsylvania, on Thursday and one person was in custody, according to NBC10 television station in Philadelphia....
View ArticleWe need a new word for this
Data breach just doesn't do this justice.1.2 Billion Web Credentials Said To Be In Russian Gang's HandsOver 400,000 web site were compromised over a six month period. The gang, about a dozen hackers...
View ArticleWhen Did Hating Workers Become Acceptable?
Reality and Wall Street aren't on speaking terms. Something happened today that you'd think would be good news -- the number of job openings reached a 13 year high. Yeah, we can get into the nitty...
View ArticleDepressed as f#¢king hell
First let me say this, I'm not writing this for attention but as a cathartic act -- a release.The shit running thru my brain is dark and scary. Armageddon, Ragnarok, and a planet killing asteroid all...
View ArticleMy fellow, white Americans...
there's something about how we've been acting and it's bothering me. A lot.So I'm going to be brutally honest with you. In all my sparkling whiteness to your incandescent, glowing whiteness. Every time...
View ArticleHere we go again and again and again...
Can we please stop blaming the victims of violence?The tragic death of Tamir Rice is ripping my guts out and I see people ready to offer "advice" like"He shouldn't have reached into his...
View ArticleLooking for work in the 21st Century
So here I am, 52 years old and out of work.I'm not hurting, if things work out and we sell our current home and move I could retire and live fairly comfortably. Not a bad situation to be in all things...
View ArticleF#ck you, Shaun King
About two hours ago you posted a diary about Sean Hannity and his love of Witness #40. You chose to make the issue of the witness' medical condition a prominent feature of your story. So much so that...
View ArticleLadders and Bull$h!t - A True Tale of Conservativism
Many years ago when I was still a respectable lad I got called to jury duty in Minnesota. Back then, in the early 80's, you got a two week assignment to a pool and could be called multiple times. The...
View Article"Yes you do."
It's as predictable as the sun rising. Someone writes a diary about white privilege and the complaints and denials start flying. Of all of the ones I see the one that I'm the most tired of reading is,...
View ArticleA little gallows humor...
I made a comment in BiPM's Cheers and Jeers about how the weather on the west coast is definitely not normal. And it got me to thinking, we should probably change the names of the months to better...
View ArticleThe Cry of the Turtle
"It's Obama's fault!"You've all heard about the #47Traitors (or is that #49Traitors now? Someday I'll get a Twitter account) but you probably haven't heard why they became treasonous dickwads.On the...
View ArticleThe United States of North Bend
Last week a drama unfolded less than a mile from my home here in the foothills of the northern Cascade range. A 41 year-old man going thru a divorce decided a gun was going to solve his problems. What...
View Article"He was caught up in the emotion"
There are lots of times you can understand people getting emotional and over-reacting to a situation. We're humans, it's kind of what we do. But I was sickened and outraged when I heard some police...
View ArticlePainting a smiley face on the Apocalypse
There are times I yell at my car radio.Yeah, it's stupid, but boy does it feel good. The latest was today listening to a story on my local NPR station KUOW. The Pacific Northwest is having a bumper...
View ArticleDemented Nazi gasbag blames Roof's terrorism on evolution
You have to hand it to Rush. He always finds a way to be stupid, crass, and ill-informed. It must take a lot of practice to uncork a doozy like this...If you happen to be a young kid in junior high or...
View ArticleHow to shut your conservative friends up about Kim Davis...
You all have them, those annoying conservative friends who claim Kim Davis is being forced to do something her faith doesn't allow. Well, ask your conservative friends the following question..."If a...
View ArticleOh, so NOW you're unhappy.
Now that Hair Drumpf has claimed the prize of GOP nominee I was trying to understand why so many so-called conservatives are upset with him. After all he’s using a mixture of a dubious entertainment...
View ArticleAs desperation sets in Republicans announce "Unnamed Republican" as their new...
As Democrats begin to unite behind Secretary Hillary Clinton national poll numbers are becoming harder to ignore. “It looks like it could shape up to be a landslide”, said one Republican operative who...
View ArticleGot 10 minutes? OK, time enough to get an AR-15!
No, that’s not an exaggeration. It’s from a story in the Philadelphia Inquirer. A reporter, Helen Ubiñas, went to a gun store in Pennsylvania and told of her experience in buying an AR-15. Here is an...
View ArticleAmerica, there's hope on guns
Read this“There is too much gun crime in the USA, and high-powered weaponry is too easy to get," he said. "That's the fact. So let's deal with it. We all have the right to bear arms, but we don't have...
View ArticleRight about now Wayne LaPierre is cackling with glee.
Shit has hit the fan in America. Only the shit is bullets and the fan is the bodies of thousands and thousands of homicide victims. And the NRA couldn’t be happier about it. What are 5 dead cops in...
View ArticlePope Francis: It is not 'true or right' to link Islam to Terror
Pope Francis went there. On a day when Trump and the fetid corpse of the Republican party are trying to find new and disgusting ways to smear the Khan family and Islam in general Pope Francis told a...
View ArticleWhile we watched Pence lie his ass off the Libertarians did something..
They quit. Well, maybe.A story on Occupy Democrats seem to point to Johnson/Weld throwing in the towel. The story refers to an interview on CNN where Johnson admits that “I guess I wasn’t meant to be...
View ArticleThis isn't just about Trump, this is about the GOP
We’re all caught up in the latest Trumptastic disaster flick. And it’s a blockbuster with Trump’s disgusting verbal sewage and admission of assault on women. And that’s fine, to a point, but there’s a...
View ArticleI'm getting tired of seeing that word uncensored..
Oh, sure, I get it has non-vulgar usages. It can be a term in bridge. It’s part of other words like “trumpet” but I’m sick and tired of that profanity being used over and over again in its unfiltered...
View ArticleNPR sinks to new low by giving fascism its approval
This morning Rachel Martin had an “interview” with T-Rump’s latest addition to his cabal of fascists: Peter Navarro. Tapped to lead the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy created by executive...
View ArticleRemember when...
Remember when Republicans pretended to care about a President having an affair and lying about it? That lying about that affair was so egregious that they needed to impeach him for it? It’s not quite...
View ArticleLooking for advice in CA traffic case
Internet jokes not withstanding I really am asking for a friend. She was involved in an accident a few weeks ago not too far from where I live. Much to her surprise the police are treating the accident...
View ArticleWe Didn't Get Here Overnight...
We are all understandably outraged at the Tr*mp administration’s policies and treatment of immigrant children. But that photo at the top… that’s from a 2011 Frontline documentary about a similar camp...
View ArticleNew to SoCal and need some advice...
It’s been a strange year. Getting divorced after 20+ years of marriage will do that to you. Anyways I moved from the cold and damp of the Seattle area down to Barstow, CA this year. So far, I’m...
View ArticleOMG CBS WTF?
So browsing around YouTube this afternoon I see this…“Trump avoids politics during rain-soaked 4th of July celebration”If you’ve ever wondered what CBS stands for I think “Completely Brainwashed...
View Article70 Miles to Nowhere
Many years ago there was an ad campaign for Camel cigarettes known by its tag line, “I’d walk a mile for a Camel”. Those ads frankly puzzled me since the smokers I knew never seemed to be more than a...
View ArticleQAnon turns autophagic
Grab the popcorn and pour yourself a large glass of schadenfreude — QAnon is eating itself.From Right Wing WatchLate last month, self-proclaimed “prophet” and QAnon conspiracy theorist Johnny Enlow...
View ArticleMy first hurricane -- Mi primer huracán.
Living up north for most of my life I’ve managed to never be in a hurricane in my nearly 60 years on this rock. That streak is about to come to an end. I recently moved to Mexico for various reasons...
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God is Angry
I’m an atheist, I don’t believe in God. However I do acknowledge that other people do. And with that belief comes worship and ritual behaviors. There is something in America that is worshiped as much,...
View ArticleEverybody Knows
I’ve been watching America from the outside for several months now and I’m seeing something that concerns me. There is a concerted effort by the GOP to embrace ignorance that I’m calling “Everybody...
View ArticleDear Republicans...
Another gruesome scene of devastation has happened in another of our nation’s schools and you claim that there are no solutions but more guns and “hardening” our schools. OK, I’m wiling to accept those...
View ArticleJust for Men
Fellow Penis-Havers and those that identify as having one I’ve called you here to discuss a recent topic on this blog that’s been bothering me. Anyone else is free to join in the discussion but be...
View ArticleGTFO
So I live in Mexico. I rarely visit the turista parts of town but I did today. And much to my dismay the place I chose for breakfast had 3 big screens with FOX blaring about the Menendez case. Acting...
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Después de la tormenta
The 3rd major hurricane to strike Mexico’s Pacific coast this month is gone. As of this morning Otis isn’t even a tropical depression. But since the 11th two Cat 4 storms (both of which fortunately...
View ArticleHe's no longer "biologically viable"
Please give me a moment while I climb up on this soap box. A minor rant.Murdered. Assassinated. Killed.These are the terms we should be using when talking about the death of Alexei Navalny. He didn’t...
View Article"Let them eat flakes"
I’m surprised this is getting more coverage here but perhaps I’ve missed it.About a week ago the CEO of Kellogg’s made one of the most out-of-touch comments in years. In response to Americans...
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