FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

 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...

  Evidently there are people- and agencies- far more important than Trump who need to be protected from the Epstein Files. You may think that Trump being POTUS makes him Job 1, but *they* know full well how disposable he is. It ain't about him. There are major banks, intelligence agencies, diplomats and billionaires that were involved with Epstein. These are "the innocent people" that that fucking closet-case, Mike Johnson is talking about needing to be protected. Granted, many of these men may not have raped teen girls. They surely knew what was going on at the Island at Jeffery's homes, but they were there for other nefarious reasons, such as arms deals, money-laundering and other investments of the shadowy persuasion. These infractions are what they do not want to come out because exposing those opens all sorts of cans of world-wide worms that many, many powerful people do not want to get out. The rape of young teens- and no matter how Megyn Kelly spins it- it is ...

Let's get our minds off of current events here and talk about titty bars. Did you know that I was 50 years old before I spent time in a strip club? It's true. Now, I love naked women and nearly naked women a whole lot, and I have seen more than my share in an in-person and sometimes even a professional capacity. The idea of sitting in a bar, spending a lot of money, watching a gal dance topless, while I contemplate paying big bucks for a lap dance or bigger bucks for time in a back room, just never appealed to me or my wallet. So, prior to my first trip there had been bachelor parties, many of which I was only invited to because Ali, our bar manager, would call downstairs and ask me to bring up a bottle of J&B scotch when the party's stripper was coming on. That was the aforementioned "professional capacity". I don't think the other bartender's downstairs ever caught on or wondered why it took 20-30 minutes to deliver a bottle of scotch up one flight. ...