FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

 If you have been anywhere near the internet the last 20 years, you may know that it has been beaten into our heads that the only thing protecting us from a tyrannical government is our right to bear arms. The government should fear the people- not vice versa- and the people have the right to rise up against the dang gubmint, anytime it what gets too big fer its britches. Dang gubmint get what for! Fuck around and find out! A little crude and hard to follow, but that's basically the intent behind a billion posts on gun rights over the last twenty years or so. "We have to protect ourselves from a tyrannical government! It's a God-given, sacred right also given to us by the Founders in all their wisdom and glory! It is THE law that protects ALL the other laws! Pretty neat, eh? No other country in the world has a God-given right to defend itself, but the US. We're pretty special in that regard! Here's the text of the Second Amendment, in its entirety. Here we go:  A w...

 I don't keep up with soccer, or as the whole world calls it; futbol, but I get it. I appreciate that probably a billion people absolutely love it. I'm not sure of the figures, but clearly more people love futbol more than 'my' sports of baseball, football, hockey and basketball- combined. That's impressive. Even though it's common for a match to end in a 0-0 tie, I guess it's exciting. It's just not, as we say, "my cup of tea".  As far as competition goes, it's an endurance feat of strength and intermittent bits of skill that many people really like. I won't question their love or sincerity. It looks fun for kids to play, and it can be hilarious to watch five-year-olds going at it. They are also hilarious at T-ball and Pee Wee football.  From a youth participation perspective, your child is better off kicking a ball around a field, occasionally bouncing a ball off their noggin than they are slamming their head into another kid's he...

 Could you have ever fathomed an America so rife with gangster capitalism and led by THE  stupidest motherfucker imaginable, falling apart so fast? Of course not. No one saw this coming, save for the scumbags who made it happen, and even they must have been winging it, amazed at their success. I'm not going to give anyone- least of all, Trump- props for pulling this off. He's not laughing all the way to the offshore bank, pretending to be an idiot. He's not pretending. He's an idiot. Been saying for years that he's a perfect storm of idiocy, the only republican who could pull this off, ever. If Trump was given any marching orders by his handlers at all, surely it was, "Just be yourself. People like that shit!". Oh, he could do that! Tell him he is great and he will believe it. He is a delusional narcissist and always has been. He thinks, therefore he is. Someone is always right there to affirm his brilliant greatness. I don't know who that person is, a...

 Like you (maybe) I get frustrated by stupid people. There have always been people who were purposefully stupid, but it wasn' t until the republican party was created, prior to the civil war, that we knew what to call them. Now, mind you, they gave us Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in the US and that was definitely a good thing to do, but they kind of peaked with that and have been nothing but trouble since. You can look that up.  One of the things they do that irks me is their intentional misunderstanding of the system of government known as socialism. They insist that it is the same thing as communism. They really don't even actually question why there are two very different words when it is so obvious to them that North Korea and Sweden have the exact same systems of government. They are both communist because that's what socialism is; just another word for communism. They have a tendency to oversimplify things, to a fault.  Democratic socialists have recently ...

 Had a dream that I interviewed with Chris Hayes for a bartending job at the San Francisco Hilton. He was very impressed with me, and I was all but hired. He then found out that I had quit my job at "ABC 7" the day before, by saying: "The best part about a job at ABC 7 is being able to quit ABC 7". Hayes didn't like that. Like he took it personal somehow and chided me for it even though they were (somehow) the competition. He implied that by quitting there, I broke the freezer. The weird part is Chris Hayes has nothing to do with the hotel bar business, but he is a doppleganger for Mike Knight, who was THE best boss I ever had in the restaurant/bar business, years ago in New Orleans, in real life. Also, IRL, Mike had been arrested at the '68 Democratic Convention in Chicago so, he had his political bonafides, as Chris Hayes does. Chris had been having his hands all over a new-hire waitress and I could tell he had been drinking. I questioned him about that, a...

 The younger Gilmore Girl (I'll call her, Rory) rang my doorbell. I'm like a dog with doorbells. They freak me out. I don't bark, but I run around the house looking for my pants because I know, it's probably someone I need to wear pants for. And, of the 100 or so ring tone options on the doorbell, it somehow settled on a very loud, up tempo Jewish tone. Not Hava Nagila. Something snappier. I fucking hate it, but I probably hate them all. Nobody drops in on me except the Gilmore girls, so I guess I got the wireless doorbell for them.  Rory was distressed. Near tears. She began apologizing, not for the intrusion, but for the reason for her ringing. She feared she might have bedbugs and that I might too and that it might be their fault. Rory invited me down to scope out the evidence.  Her and her mom had done their homework on google before consulting me, and it was an either-or proposition of evidence. On her mom's bed, there were black dots that could well be bedbug ...