FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

 I hate it when something goes wrong and you have done two or three things new or different about the same time, and it's that much harder to pin down the cause. It becomes a sort of chicken or egg thing.  The laptop is behaving strangely. I think it's heading up on two years' service to me, but I also recently got Norton anti-virus protection. Is one or the other wrong, or both maybe? This laptop is a Lenovo I bought one Sunday morning when whatever I had at the time went belly up. It seems a year of service is about all I can expect from a laptop. What with planned obsolescence being the foundation of capitalism, I'm probably right. I remember going to Best Buy years ago to get my first laptop and telling the kid there that I had very rudimentary skills and needs to match as far as a computer went, so I didn't want to spend a lot because I didn't plan on performing any computery stunts; just Facebook and maybe that Twitter thing and possibly doing a little wri...

Trump is a salesman. Not a very good one, but his skillset screams of the used car huckster he would have been in life if he had not been born into wealth. Think of a guy like a Herb Tarlick from WKRP in Cincinnati with his garish suits. You want people to notice and remember you. They may not remember your name, but they will  remember the plaid sportscoat and green pants. Trump's the worst dancer this side of Elaine Benes, but he regularly breaks out into his double-jerk off dance to the Village People's "YMCA". He must know it's a gay anthem. He must not care. It's his song and his dance. He does like to co-opt things.  No doubt Trump is the least presidential of all presidents ever. He had zero political bonafides, never having been elected to any office. Spin is everything in politics and this was made to look like a strength rather than a weakness. The republicans had been pushing the need for a businessman in the White House; someone who understood spen...

 Last night I went down a YouTube rabbit hole of videos about how Canada is not the land of Storybook Gardens I thought it was when I was 12 years old. It's not. In fact, Storybook Gardens is closed! Well, that's just for the season. It'll open again for skating and other snow-filled fun when it gets down Celsius enough for that stuff. But Storybook Gardens was all I really knew about Canada (except for hockey and SCTV) for most of my life until recently when Trump got ugly with them and decided to make them great again by further denigrating America. I really thought they were just like us, but without guns. I was pretty much right about that and- no spoiler alert- I'm still right about that. It's just that I learned last night that Canada really doesn't have the Trump-given right to be so smug about themselves as I thought before I hit the rack last night. They're a little fucked up too. And unfortunately for them, they don't have a Trump to point to a...

Bestiality is in the news this week, but for the oddest reason, one that you'd never imagine. No senator from farm country got caught with his 'mistress' as you might assume. It wasn't even anything related to Epstein's Zorro ranch in New Mexico where you might guess that the purpose of which might have been to supply the world's wealthy freaks with nubile young sheep and goats to satisfy their aberrant sexual cravings. No, nothing like that. Evidently, FBI Director, Kash Patel, wants to relax FBI agent entrance standards to allow for bestiality in a prospective agent's past- as long as it was "forced". YIKES- but how prevalent among applicants could that be, just amongst the FBI wannabes?  Congress wanted to know, so they asked him. This Trump administration has long since stopped being funny, but they still seem to be trying. How the fuck could this be an issue for public discourse? Patel is one of the more ridiculous people holding a powerful po...

On September 11, 2001, I was leading a crew of Ratmo painters in the remodeling of the 6th floor of The Ridgeway Hotel, in Memphis Tn. It was Tuesday and we were in good shape, having until that Friday to finish the job. The powers that be were debating whether to remodel all six floors or tear it down and rebuild from scratch.  I think it was heading up on breaktime when one of my guys told me to look at the TV because a plane had hit a building in New York City. I remember assuming that it was probably a small plane, likely tragic pilot error. How else could that happen?  With televisions on in every room, we watched the drama unfold in real-time while we went about our work. We soon learned it was an airliner that hit the World Trade Center; The Twin Towers. How the fuck does that happen? Who makes a mistake like that? What a tragic accident!  Then the second plane hit the second tower. This was no accident. We were watching a nightmare unfold. Soon the bosses came in ...

 Allow me to explain the vast difference between a democratic form of government and a republic. It may take a while. Might blow some minds. Here we go: "Democracy is government where the people decide laws and leadership directly or through participation, while a republic is government where power rests with the people but is exercised through elected representatives. In the modern United States , it’s accurate to say it is both." Huh. Sounds like looking at identical twins to see which one is prettiest. If I had to choose which system we have here in the US, I would say it's a republic, and according to most all the experts I'd be right. YAY! A democracy sounds a bit more hands on perhaps, but a republic sounds just as busy, but without all the personal involvement of every damn citizen, all the damn time. You don't have to vote on every fucking thing. That is up to the representatives in both systems ultimately anyways. So, same thing; not really different, ...