FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

Having gotten caught up on other bingeworthy shows, I decided to see what the hullaballoo was all about with HBO's, "Euphoria". I'm never on time with any hit show and this series, first airing in 2019, is no exception. I thought it was more current than that. It is  sorta, as it's official third season begins this coming April. Doing the math, it began six years ago, and it seems to me that it should be in season six by now with ordinary television accounting. All I can figure is that it is an expensive show to produce and, since it's so gloriously cinematic in its presentation, it takes time and money to do each episode.  My family grew up on TV. Back when we used to all get together before mom passed, and we broke up into camps; pro-Laurie (the oldest) and anti-me (middle child/oldest son) my siblings used to talk about hit TV shows all the damn time. I was usually lost in these conversations. Even if I had cable, I was using it for sports more than any com...

 I have never for a moment believed that the National Rifle Association (NRA) seriously viewed themselves as anything but a business, out to make as much money as possible. They could argue that the design of the Second Amendment was to arm American citizens against a tyrannical government- and they did- but it was all marketing to sell guns, ammo and gun related accessories. Like many advertising campaigns do, as it grows it tends to go in different directions as it succeeds in the marketplace. From its humble beginnings as a post-Civil War organization whose aim was to teach northern boys to be the marksmen that southern boys were at the time, to a non-profit, multibillion dollar 'gun rights' organization that owns most of congress. Quite the uniquely American success story.  For the last several decades the NRA has been focusing on the notion that if a tyrannical government took hold in the United States, their members would be the citizen militias that stood against tyrann...

Found a pretty interesting show on HBO. It's a dating show, but the six contestants start out buck naked, and the *decider* takes a little bit longer to get there as she or he thins out the herd. It ran from 2016 to 2024, so if you want to go on it, you'll need a time machine. I have to say I was expecting cringe but didn't get it. Perhaps because all the participants were from the United Kingdom where- maybe it's just me- the people seem so much more civilized than us. Eh, it's probably the accents. Well, I'm forgetting the scouse...  You know how dating is. I used to know myself before I retired from work and play. It's agonizing at best whether you are a man or a woman. Day in, day out people are attracted to each other, and both men and women surely spend a lot of time pondering what the objects of their eyes look like naked. So, why not reverse the process and start out with full, frontal nudity and take it from there? Well, interesting as that can seem...

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities". The entire country can look at the same footage (from all angles) of Renee Nichole Good being killed and see completely different things. Some see facts. Others see the alternative facts of the narrative their political leaders tell them to see. There is  clear right and wrong about that tragic incident, but even in the media- now more than ever- both sides of every story must  be reported as equal. It all sounds like that AI shit to me as this particular story is reported in the black and white of either/or rather than the full, living color of truth. You can't 'both sides' everything in life, because when you do, you both sides right and wrong and the script is irrevocably flipped.  The thing that might frustrate me most in life today with maga, is that they absolutely don't mind being stupid. Most of us go through our younger lives in fear of being perceived as stupid. Kids won...

IF  trumpublicans really wanted to deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants, they could easily have begun in user friendly red states with compliant governors. There would be little need for ICE goons, National Guard or threats of military. But what fun would that be?  In Obama's 8 years, he deported 5.3 million people without ICE goon's wilding out on the streets of America. Also, without unnecessary fanfare, Joe Biden deported 545,000. Neither of those two gentlemen used concentration camps for this process. I do not recall much hullaballoo about this on the news or the internet in those 12 years. But here Trump is one year into his second disastrous term and certain blue cities look like war zones. I have to believe that's on purpose.  Both Biden and Obama respected the 14th Amendment and used due process to accomplish their tasks. Trump however gets by with a memo telling ICEholes to disregard the 4th Amendment. ICEholes will also tell you that you can't film them...

 I'm no fucking rat, but I got a line on some very clever immigrants that seem to have escaped the scrutiny of our ICEhole storm troopers. I'm not really worried about them getting busted because I don't think ICE reads and like a lot of stupid people, they don't read this blog. For that reason, I'm going to go ahead and out them here and because their skills in blending into America are so excellent! I mean- they fooled a Ferrerman. That's not supposed to happen. First one is Gerran Howell. He plays young doctor, Dennis Whitaker from Oklahoma on HBO's "The Pitt". He does a fine job, even finer when you discover that the little scamp is WELSH!  That's a country in the United Kingdom called Wales. I never would have guessed or been the least bit suspicious until I saw an interview clip of him on IMDb, speaking in his native voice.  Second up (also from The Pitt) is Shabana Azeez. OK, now the name is not the big tip off you might think it is. I w...