FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

 My home page on this device is MSN. It's chockful of rapidly changing McNews nuggets. Some are interesting, most are just clickbait. Thanks to the wonders of algorithms, they know I'm a Cubs fan and they assault me hourly with baseball trades that could  happen if trades were left up to the writer's whims and not in reality General Managers. There's also a lot of celebrity mcnuggets on there every goddamn minute. Did you know that actress Kristy McNicole is no longer as young and pretty as the world used to like to think she was when she was a teen? It's a shocker, but she's 62 and you would not believe how she looks now!! Yes, I would. I have mirrors in my home. I've noticed a few changes in myself these past several decades. Just a few.  Young Kristy played young "Buddy Lawrence" on the show, "Family" a drama that was on ABC in the late 80's. If you're scoring at home, she was 6 years younger than me then- and now! That's h...

 What I miss about cable TV is a one-stop shopping of what to watch on TV. There would be a guide available as well (online) that you could peruse to catch anything interesting that might catch your eye. No cable for me now as in its own way it's restrictive and expensive. So, I stream, you stream; we all stream the TV stream.  One of my favorite channels is TCM. It's got some classics on there. Says so right in the name. But until I found a guide for it (exactly two minutes ago), I had to scroll to the middle of the YouTube TV listings to see if something great was on. That's a first world hassle. Last night I found "Network", the 1976 Sidney Lumet gem that starred William Holden and Faye Dunaway. Forty-nine years later, this is a story ripped from today's headlines! Well, sorta. It's an indictment of television then and now. That says either everything old is new again, or the more things change, the more they stay the same.  No real spoiler alerts here ...

 "Hell is the impossibility of reason". That's a movie quote, from Oliver Stone's "Platoon", it's a keeper and I probably think about it every day these days while we all watch the insanity of the Trump regime play out, but the reality of it is, trumpiness has always been with us long before Trump darkened our lives. It's almost enough to make you believe in the Devil. But if you believe in the Devil, you have to believe in God and that whole Bible business. Try and reason that shit out! If God is so great (as heard in song and prayer) why did he invent the Devil and then let the Devil beat him up and down the court, all game every game? Who does that?  Eh, I don't want to get all up in religion. It's pointless and it can get you killed. I'd rather talk about my old boss, 162 IQ Lou. I did a job for Reliant Foods in Memphis- the one in Tennessee, a couple decades ago. I was working for Ratmo Construction LLC (Lousy Lying Cocksuckers) at t...

 Is it just me, or does there seem to be an urgency about this Trump regime? Does fascism always move this quickly? The historians always tell us to look for the little changes that happen in a government that sort of lull you into a bigger change, much later on. Everybody talks about Hitler, but he came to power in Germany in 1933 and it wasn't until 1939 that he went about invading Poland to start the war that would become known as "WWII". He prepared. This Trump regime is acting like their hair is on fire. It has been 6 months since he took the oath (without his hand on the Bible) and most people would probably agree that it feels like 6 years. Well, Hitler was a younger man. At 79, Trump is damn near 80. He has an expiration date approaching, like we all do, according to Senator Joanie Ernst. We're all day to day, but if you look at that fat slob and consider his eating habits and know that his only exercise is swinging a golf club and then riding on a golf cart t...

What does a list of anything prove? It proves that someone made a list and wants you to think that well- there you go- it's on the list!  I went to Walmart yesterday and ribeye's were on the list. I didn't get any ribeye though because they were like $34! But they were on the list... So, every clear-thinking man and woman in America- and maga too- wants to see a list of names of the guys on Jeffery Epstein's Island as if that itself is all one would legally need to put all those scumbags under  the Guantanamo Bay prison for life plus 20 years.  I'm no lawyer, but it doesn't work that way, it can't, and it shouldn't. There's an old saw about how a District Attorney/prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich. That pertains to grand juries, but not to actual courtrooms. In a similar vein, it's like Trump's threatened lawsuits. He can threaten CBS with a suit but if the 60 Minutes suit ever made it to court, he'd lose BIGLY.  In layman's term, ...

Watched a nice video about the Mustang Ranch, a legal brothel in Reno, Nevada. A really cute British gal was the hostess of the video, and probably the prettiest gal on scene if I must be honest. Plus, I love British accents. Way back in the day I dated Donna, who claimed to me that she had worked at the equally famous, "Bunny Ranch" earlier in her life. I had gotten the impression that she might be saying that to gauge my reaction to that revelation. Or she was just lying, as some people are wont to do. I just remember her telling me that the only man who had ever brought her to climax was a guy she called "The Cowboy" and it was while she was working at the brothel. Not sure if I was supposed to impressed by this revelation or intimidated. I think I was kinda sad for her. When Donna and I finally did the deed, I did not match the Cowboy's legacy. I don't think I had a chance! No foreplay was allowed. No foreplay??  For some guy's that's a dream com...

 It's curious to me that Trump so far looks to be the world's first dictator to allow his subjects to be armed. I understand that at this moment he doesn't want to anger the maga population that is likely well-armed and still quite romantically involved with the Second Amendment. You know the 2A. It's the one that DOES NOT  give citizens the right to make war on a tyrannical government (here in the US) but millions of gun owners are sure it does just that. You know one way you can tell it doesn't say that? Here we are in the throes of a tyrannical government, and the NRA and their supporters are doing nothing to combat it. They like this dang gubmint! I've long suspected that what the guns were ultimately for, was not fighting tyrannical dang gubmints, but rather for the Americans they don't like. Nobody hates Americans harder than republicans. They hate the libs, gays, transexuals- it's a long list. Ironic that the rest of the world probably loves those...

My hat is off to anyone who is endeavoring to persevere in these troubling times. There is nothing  wrong with that. Keep on keeping on with your first world problems and don't let the bastards get you down. THEY  do not want you to keep on keeping on. Or, maybe they do, because it makes their evil plans hit harder. Shit. Hadn't thought about that. It's easy to doomscroll Bluesky or watch the news and get very unhappy, very quick about what is going on in this rapidly degrading country. We are  going to Hell in a handbasket with a demented old man's tiny grip on the handle. It absolutely is insane and stupid and totally unnecessary. But it's what the rich people want, or worse, what they think  they want. (Ferrerman note: Never assume the rich or your boss- or anyone in charge- truly knows what they are doing. More often than not, they don't. Most everyone is making decisions above their paygrade. They just don't want to admit it.) Take Trump. Please. Object...

 It's got to be confusing being a Christan these days. You've got that book- The Bible- that has been around for one third of the 6000 year existence of the planet, but it's a real hard read and wide-open to interpretation, and the problem with that is, those opinions vary and are subject to who is doing the interpreting. To further complicate matters, you've got me- a non-believer- writing this about that. Should I be stoned, shunned or cannonized. (And does "cannonized" mean "shot out of a cannon"? I should look that up, lest they  think it does). There are also untold numbers of versions or branches of Christianity in the world and here in the US, and though you may think that you are in the right one, others may not. It kinda seems like there should just be one, to uncomplicate things. We know that the republicans feel that the two-party system of politics is troublesome and that they are currently in the process of streamlining that into a more ...

 Evidently, we all have a sad case of Epstein Derangement Syndrome and Trump wants us to get over it. Why, it's as bad as disliking reaction videos when there's so much more to be upset about in this world. Well, EDS couldn't be worse than that... Mr. Occam told us that the simplest explanation is usually correct. I'll buy that. Why overthink things? Well, it's human nature, and kind of a sport here in America. Whether it's the media, folks sitting around talking or the internet, it is as if we've been trained to overanalyze everything , usually in the hopes of getting a leg up on our opponents and looking really smart on the internet.  Was Jeffery Epstein simply a wealthy financer with a predilection for young teenaged females, who simply had a side hustle where he provided said young teens to his other wealthy friends just for fun? Boy, that's about as simple as it gets. That won't make for a very interesting book or movie tough, so why not dig a l...

 Bob Jesnik had always struck me as a weird guy. He was a regular at the bar, but he mostly had a nodding familiarity with us other bartenders who weren't Bodie Walker. He was Bodie's customer. That usually means a bartender is giving out free drinks. One of us other bartenders come along, and it messes up the whole system of Bob drinking but not paying much for drinks. Now, Bob could afford those drinks as he was very high up in his father's construction company, but everybody likes free stuff, and nobody likes free stuff more than the rich. I thought Bob was a dumbass. Pretty clear to me that if daddy didn't own the company, Bob would be nowhere near such a business. You may know about the sons of the rich. Forget the apple not falling far from the tree, they often should never be in the orchard.  Early one slow evening, Bob graced me with his presence at the coveted first stool next to the cocktail waitress station, where Cathy was working. Bob maybe wasn't so du...

It's kind of fun watching people like Steve Bannon and many others turning on Trump. Kind of scary too. His own crazies are figuring out that he's full of shit about leading them to the insane heights they wanted to go. They are disappointed in him. He's not the maga brand they signed up for. the guy who would drain the swamp and destroy the deep state. He IS  the swamp and the deep state now! No shit. They couldn't see that coming. We did! It was in all the papers. You don't take a perfectly OK country like America and go to all the trouble (and money) of tearing down every aspect of it and its government with a bi-polar, vague notion of a goal of making it "great again" without showing some immediate results once you are in for the second time. Oh, there's been a buttload of immediacy in this second Trump term, a whole lot of first day  stuff that seemed impressive. But if you can't fool the fools you fooled before anymore, who are you fooling bu...

An odd exchange with a follower earlier. To another poster I added to his complaint about the recent trend of side-by-side reaction videos They are dumb and pretty much unnecessary. My addition was that I didn't like the ones where someone is telling a joke, and on the other side of the screen is a clip of someone laughing outrageously. Why? And perhaps worse, the split screen is used to tell a story, and the other side is some inexplicable B-roll of some unrelated product being made. Again- why? Are these first world problems? Yes. But I wasn't crying or praying to Trump that these 'creators' be deported to a Sudanese prison. I was just kinda bitching. Is that wrong? To one follower, it was! At first, I wondered if I was reading her wrong. Could someone read my post and take it so seriously? A quick perusal of my bio mentions something about me being a "gifted satirist and sarcasmist". Eh, who reads those things anyways. I also say that "DM's mean yo...

 Today I have another podcast review of sorts, and you will be surprised at who the host is.  It's Joe Rogan! Yeah- the guy who can suck his own dick. If you told him to go fuck himself, he at least has the foreplay covered. That guy.  He can actually be a good interviewer, letting his guest tell their story at their pace. This morning, he had on Joe Pistone, an FBI undercover agent who infiltrated the Bonnano crime family in the late 70's. He was the real-life Donnie Brasco portrayed by Johnny Depp, in the 1997 film "Donnie Brasco". It is one of the better mob movies you'd ever want to see. Great cast including Al Pacino and the recently departed, Michael Madsen. It is a fascinating, true story that seems to not take too many liberties with reality as many films do. Pistone said the only major issue he had with it was that in one scene Donnie slaps his wife. Joe Pistone would never  raise his hand to his wife. He made sure the audience was straight with that.  ...

 Ran across a podcast of a very entertaining, ex-con last. I had actually seen clips of his own podcasts which feature interviews with other ex-cons. The fella's name is Johnny Mitchell and he was interviewed by Julian Dorsey, who has been at the podcasting game for a while, though he looks like a teenager. Mitchell himself looks like he could step into the role of the star of CBS's "Tracker", and no one would notice the change. Handsome fella, evidently 6'6" but he was sitting down so, probably.  Sounds like he was always a bit of a ner do well, but one with mostly good intentions in life. He went from a smalltime weed dealer, to one who was shipping weed all over the US. He got caught and sentenced to prison. I forget how much time he did, but it was enough to learn the ways and means of prison life. Prison itself is an education system, long referred to as a college for criminals. The guy is very open and engaging. His only real crime as I see it- or hear ...

 Some of the worst women I know are men.  A random woman on Bluesky made one of those "GO TEAM GIRLS!!" posts that show up probably daily on social media that pander to our better or worse, tribal angels, in the quest for likes. You know the posts that people make that are proclamations that, if reversed would be deemed misogynist or racist: "Women are better than men!" "Blacks are better than whites!" "Right Twix is better than Left Twix!" Real throwaway posts to me, but people like them. You get to pick a side or go over to the other side if you choose to be more enlightened.  I reminded this woman that Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi are women. Kind of a gotcha, I think. Check and mate! CASE CLOSED.  I wasn't going to get a fight out of that chick, and I suspect my point fell on deaf eyes. That's fine, that's social media, you are under no obligation to engage anyone simply because they posted to you. I've got to remember that... How...

 Trump has been in the news, courtrooms and on television for- 60 years(?) Let's say 50 years. At the age of 79, he's finally made it. No more pretending to be a billionaire (playing one on TV) he probably is one now or will be tomorrow or next week. Finally! And he did it the only way a fuckhead like him could do it: he became president of the United States. It sure wasn't going to be the steaks or the vodka.  He might be THE embodiment of "fake it 'til you make it".  But come on now, he's 79 years old. It took him long enough! Jeez. He's never been what you'd call a smart guy. A smart guy would have peaked quite a bit sooner in life when he could enjoy it more. I guess he is enjoying it if you base it on average white guys of 79 years who golf and ramble incoherently, but those guys have probably been retired 10-15 years after a lifetime of working. You could argue that they earned it. You'd lose that argument with me, but you can argue it if...

 Whatever happens in the next few years (and I assure you it will be ugly) we cannot let future societies believe that Trump was some sort of God. People are stupid now, so it tracks that even the survivors of a nuclear holocaust will be stupid. They'll learn nothing. They'll be poking around the ruins of earth one day and maybe find pics of Trump left behind by maga, showing him all muscular, youthful and even almost handsome. They will have heard a little bit about the guy- maybe, maybe not- and they might look at the guy and wonder if he were a God. Or they might jerk off. Who knows.  Wasn't it like 3 or 4 generations after Christ was killed that someone decided, "Hey- we got something here! We could build a religion about this Jewish guy! Let's get to work on the backstory... People will LOVE this!" I hear things. Plus, it's pretty obvious that, if Trump did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. I mean- that's what they've done. Not s...

Algorithms being what they might be, I've seen several references to how men should get into the practice of peeing while sitting down. (Counterpoint: How about women getting in the practice of peeing standing up? Oh, yeah, that's right. Never mind.  🤷) Evidently, Allison, my aim isn't true. And neither is the next guys. I've heard things... First up was an ex-con on YouTube talking about meeting a new cellie for the first time, and the guy laying down his one rule. The new guy had  to pee sitting down. The new roommate, probably twice the size of the cell owner, said, "Explain". It didn't have anything to do with the "prison bitch" stories where big, black Bubba has his way with the smaller, scared rookie and makes him his bitch. These two were both white and the guy laying down the law was half the size of the new tenant. They had exchanged paperwork, and the little guy was a documented killer. He explained that since he was doing life, he did...

 Let me get on my soapbox here and more or less defend Lisa Murkowski. It'll probably be less, but I'm gonna try- like a congressperson would. Murkowski, like many congresspersons, is a human being. This means she has fallibility  just like all of us. This means, she's going to fuck up from time to time. Tell me that you haven't fucked up from time to time in life. I'm writing this and I'm not going to try to pretend to tell you that I've never fucked up in life. I took an oath to defend this blog against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and alert non-readers know that I have not always upheld that oath. Sorry about that, but ya know, I'm Ferrerman, damn it. The first duty of a congressperson is to represent their constituents. If you noticed, she tried to do that. She knew this bill sucked a bag of balls, so she tried to get her state (Alaska) exempt from parts of it. At first glance, that would seem to be "doing her job". But upon other gla...