FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

 Since 2008 we have had three presidents and two of them have been democrats. Really, all three should have been democrats, but that is a story for another day. If you were looking to break into the ever-expanding pundit field in 2008, you would have looked at the handsome, smart, black, Barak Obama and you would have easily reasoned that the smart punditry money was to be made in being against this man. He was going to be around for a couple of terms. His job security was your  job security. And if things went as they righteously should, he would be succeeded by Hillary Clinton- our first female president- and you'd be looking at 16 years of solid employment. OK, not really a guarantee there, but a pretty safe bet. Good for the country too, if you care about things like that.  Well, conservative pundits don't care about things like what is good for the country. They are very selfish motherfuckers who only want what is good for them. Like republicans in general, they want...

 I've heard them all. "Oh, I don't do that!  My husband/boyfriend used to make me do that!"  well, OK, you don't have to do that . Nobody should have to do anything they don't want to do. I totally believe and support that, whether it is sex or anything else in life. If you wouldn't do it, why should you expect anyone else to do it? It is pretty much the Golden Rule, right? Blow Jobs are in the news, mostly because recently released Epstein emails said that Trump blew a guy named "Bubba". People first thought it was Bill "Bubba" Clinton, mostly because they wanted to believe it was him because that's ironic and pretty funny. It wasn't the former President, the Epstein family said, but the interesting part of that was that they simply said it wasn't him, not that the BJ didn't happen. That is a way of doubling down, if you think about it. Nor did they deny that Putin and Netanyahu may well indeed have video of him perform...

 This is a sort of review of an HBO mini-series that I had never heard of, "The Night Of", but found when I was lacking viewing pleasure for the evening. I tried the "True Detective" series with Jodie Foster, but if she was trying to impress me, she failed. Her story took place up at the Arctic circle, but the mystery seemed to involve the occult and that doesn't appeal to me. It just doesn't and I'm not sorry about that. If solving the mystery involves an 9th century Norse God or an Egyptian curse unleashed, it shall remain a Scooby Do mystery to me. Gritty fictional- or non-fictional- crime is my wheelhouse. I don't spend a lot of time trying to figure out who did it in fiction though because it's always the writer. They decide whodunnit, often with no rhyme or reason. Fucking writers like to GOTCHA!  So, at this point, I don't know who did it, but I know who didn't, and that would be the main character, Naz (Riz Ahmed). He's an Ame...

 It wasn't until 1974 when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act passed that women could apply for- and receive- a credit card without a man co-signing. The man could be a husband, father or even a brother. I think they preferred a husband though. Anecdotally, I have heard that up through the 50's and 60's it was harder for women to get into the workforce because male employers often saw them as taking a job away from a man who would be supporting a family. I don't know- maybe? I just kind of find it hard to believe that men have ever really been that *practical* or that much into solidarity amongst their fellow man. Business is pretty cutthroat, ya know. It always has been. In the 1860's this nation fought a war over slavery. Half of the country wanted it, and the other half did not. I am pretty sure that war continues today, as it never really ended.  \You may think we are corporate owned now- and we are- but we always have been. It's just more obvious now as it is...

 Trump sure has been weird lately. There's a news flash. Everyone was expecting him to have goons jump Zohran Mamdani in their private, White & Gold House meeting this past week, but it turned out that Trump was quite charmed by the young socialist and, even though terrorist MBS had visited a day or two earlier, no bone saws were to be used. We are all glad of that- "we" being the reasonably normal people here in America. Republicans (not a fucking one of which are "normal") were not  pleased. But are they ever? The answer to that is "no". His cheerful meeting with Mamdani was smack dab in the middle of his screaming at a reporter, calling her "Piggy", a feud with the nearly departed Marjorie Greene possibly coming to an end, and a Russian peace deal that was pretty obviously written in the original Russian and both owned and disowned by Secretary of State, Little Marco Rubio. It's hard to keep up with the changes with this version of...

Not sure I ever mentioned "Bobby the Hairdresser" before. There being an abundance of Bob's in the world, it helps to differentiate been the various Bob's by what they are known for. There was "Bobby the Big Dick" (He was and had a big one), "Bobbie the Cigar". He was a very squeaky little guy who smoked cigars that were almost bigger than he was. And "Safety Bob" who made his living as a safety engineer but managed to break his leg getting into a cab. He was, of course, drunk. Surely other Bobs too, but they were just Bob's.  Bobby the Hairdresser and I had gone to school together, but I don't recall knowing him. Big school. Maybe I did know of him, because I knew he had been a greaser. Kind of a fancy greaser at that, as he used hairspray rather than grease to slick his hair back. As Warren Zevon sang, his hair was perfect. He had an angular walk to him that I'm sure he had practiced a lot , that suggested he was always read...