FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

 Much to my surprise I am watching- and enjoying- "The Sex Lives of College Girls". Yeah. This is what happens when you don't have NFL channels because of the capitalist patriarchy. And you're cheap. But it's a good thing. I'm expanding my television horizons.  I remembered seeing ads for it on HBO/MAX when I was bingeing "The Sopranos" and thinking it looked kinda stupid. If I had had to guess, I'd have thought it was like 'Sex in the City Goes to College', but I never watched "Sex in the City". I watch things like the Sopranos, so I don't know.  I gave it a shot and I'm glad I did. It's clever, very funny and got a good amount of titties and bottoms in it. And I'd have to say, several episodes in, that it doesn't take itself too seriously. It's about four girls from different backgrounds, rooming together in their freshman year at a Vermont college. Naturally they are dealing with boys- and girls too- a...

 I get that it was disappointing to all, but doesn't page upon pages of completely redacted evidence just fucking spell "guilty"? Sure, it doesn't delineate who is guilty (not officially) but, then again, it does! That is because, we all know who dunnit. We have pretty good knowledge of other guilty parties involved as well. Aside from the current President, other men involved were captains of industry, politics and even a legal scholar. Little Mike Johnson (spokesgremlin for the current regime) somehow feels these men need to be protected, that just because they were there, doesn't mean they were there.  Maybe so, but who is he to be the guardian of guilt or innocence? I mean, was he there?  We know who all the suspects are. Boatloads of black ink certainly are not going to exonerate them. You could hope that Noam "NOAM!" Chomsky was an innocent visitor, but not if he's as redacted as the others. Apparently 11 pages of Bill Clinton were fit to print...

 An LA Rams wide receiver got in trouble for making an antisemitic gesture as part of his touchdown celebration. I had no idea who the guy was because who can afford to watch football these days? I was also kind of curious what the gesture was. I assumed it might be the rubbing of the fingers against the thumb that people do when someone is cheap. It turned out to be the rubbing of the hands together, one curled under the other open hand that we've all seen and maybe even done over the years. It signifies greed. I had no idea it was antisemitic. Just thought it was overacting. The player likely had no idea of the implication of the gesture, the connotation, if you will, thinking (as I would) that it meant he was greedy for touchdowns. He got kinda duped into doing it by a shitbird podcaster who probably did  know what it meant.  The rubbing of the fingers gesture is more familiar to me. Seen it throughout life, and often a reference to Jews is made while the person is doi...

Due to recent purges, I've had an interesting change in my television viewing habits. It's not an entirely bad thing though.  I have to admit that YouTube TV was the best service that I've come across. It's expensive though (currently $82.50 a month) and I did not  like their shitty cancelling non-feature. Won't go through all that again but suffice to say it was way too Brokeback Mountain. Very hard to quit. It really had everything I wanted though. The NFL, NHL, some MLB and the network channels which seem useless, but come in handy at times. I was thinking about this when I read how pissed off Survivor fans were that Trump's crazy national address interrupted the season finale. I wasn't a serious fan, but I looked at Survivor as comfort food for the mind. Same thing every damn season, so predictable and safe, like a ham sandwich for the soul. It was there if I wanted it. Once I discovered how fucking hard they made it to quit, I was very dedicated to defe...

A guy wearing a cowboy hat on CNN, made a very important point about the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife in regard to how Trump so abusively handled it, and the reactions by other, less-titled assholes, to Trump's obscene remarks. He held up a newspaper photo of Rob Reiner and noted that most Americans only knew him as "Meathead" from "All in the Family" and from him directing many wonderful films. Most of the US didn't know- or care- that he was a democrat and an activist. They liked Meathead for his movies.  To a much lesser extent, when Charlie Kirk was murdered, most Americans had no idea who he was. That he was shot on a college campus probably had much of America shaking their head and saying, "Oh, another school shooting..." There is nothing really odd about that. Rob Reiner was famous for that TV role and a whole bunch of great movies- not  his politics. Kirk was somewhat famous, in a smaller circle, only for  his politics, nothing else. ...

 I'm damn-near 20 years removed from Memphis, but reading an article this morning about the ICE 'mission' there took me back. There isn't a lot on the news about the ICEholes in Memphis, because there is less resistance from the citizens than in Chicago, Portland and LA. Memphis is the largest majority black city in the country and that has to be a factor. A big part of the story of America is ethnic rivalries in cities where other minorities are viewed as competition for the US dollar. A black majority is still a minority in Memphis though. Being from the Chicago suburbs, I was a bit of a migrant myself, and at times felt the distancing and persecution from what I laughingly call "my people". This was, of course, before Trump and Maga, but the seeds of republican assholery were long ago sown in the south, and thrived in Memphis where, if they don't cherish the lost cause  on a daily basis, they will upon hearing a Yankee voice. Such uncivil war sentiment ...