Oh, I Think So

In these very weird times, I've had to find something to make me laugh.  In his column of today, Nicholas Kristof of the NY Times shared a quote from George Orwell:  "Every joke is a tiny revolution."  I've been making as many tiny revolutions as I am able. Only one person has gotten two cards and there have not been too many sent but enough that I think about it and it makes me smile. Years ago on the website ICanHasCheezburger.com, before it is was bought and changed, before many of the categories like politics and graphs were removed, I used to have a delightful time writing memes.  It was a wonderful hobby.  There was a beautiful day that I had three different memes on the front page of each of three categories -- cats, politics, and graphs.  But the site became unwieldly as the new owner added in so many ads that it was hard to read the memes, let alone create them,  and I just gave up. My hobby of political memes is back in the form of postcards!...

YES!  It's Joan Ruth "Kiki" Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.  One of the brilliant legal minds of ours or any age, Justice Ginsburg passed away on Friday at the age of 87.  Her dying wish was that her replacement be appointed by whoever wins the November election.  Trump and his dear friend, Moscow Mitch McConnell, will try to make sure she doesn't get her wish. When asked about being compared to Notorious BIG, wearing a crown and sunglasses in a meme like he did, RBG said, "He and I had lot in common."  The audience laughed and she said, "We were both from Brooklyn, born and bred." RIP, RBG. Bill Clinton introducing RBG as his choice to serve on the Supreme Court. Courtesy of NY Times Martin Ginsburg, standing, at the Senate confirmation hearing of RBG. Courtesy of NY Times A normal woman with an extraordinary mind and heart. Courtesy of NY Times

 

YES!!  WEEK OFF!  Next week I am BACK!  BACK!  And we will talk about things.

 On August 18, 2020, the 19th Amendment to the US Constitition was ratified, giving women the right to vote.  That is not the story here. What can women do that men can't do?  Everything but two things -- donate sperm and pick up large, heavy things from the floor. What can men do that women cannot do?  Nothing but those two things. That about covers it.  Make sure you're registered to vote!

Last week's post, "Scared White People," brought some interesting responses, surprisingly favorable, but two people asked me what I was so pissed about.  I said, "Scared white people." Scared white people piss me off as they are scared for all the wrong reasons.  They hate Jews, Blacks, Asians, Latinx, Native Americans, and any combination of those.  There are many things they should be afraid of but they are too dumb to accept these as a threat. Dictators.   When the leader of your country admires dictators and despots, there is a real problem.  It probably means that he wants to be a dictator or despot, too.  Or maybe he just wants to be like a Mafia don:  No one questions him or his actions and he is blamed for nothing.  He takes the Teflon presidency of Ronald Reagan to a whole other level.  Guess who I am talking about?  It's Trump!  Did you not guess? If you did not then why are you even reading this blog? Covid-19.   Thi...

Think of some of the embarrassments in American history including before we officially broke from the British and became the USA.  Everything lousy that's happened is because of the fears of white people.  I wanted things to be more cohesive in what I've written below but I am so annoyed by these facts that I will do the best I can. SLAVERY    In the eyes of scared white people, slavery forever  made black people -- originally brought here when they were rounded up in their villages by force and thrown into the holds of ships for the voyage -- to be considered inferior to  whites just because they were forced for years to be sold as if they were not human beings.  We now have a name for it:  Human trafficking and it's against every law on the planet.  The fear?  The lazy-ass cheap fuck white folks were too scared and cheap to pay people for an honest day's work because they wanted to keep the money for themselves.  When there w...