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SUPPORTERS OF DONALD TRUMP are told that so-called “Trump Bucks” will propel his 2024 presidential bid and make the buck-buyers rich when he wins and they can cash in. How would it work? Those who bought the bucks believe that when Trump is re-elected, he will institute a new monetary system that will make Trump Bucks valuable! [Read more] “the trump bucks stop here!”
HOW COULD I RESIST THIS? Here is the story behind this image: over the weekend, Donald Trump posted an image (below) on his Truth Social site with this message: “For so many years, people have been saying that Elvis and I look alike. Now this pic has been going all over the place. [Read more] “yeah, but can donald trump do the clam?”
ON HIS LAST DAY AS PRESIDENT on January 20, 2021, Donald Trump will walk out onto 5th Avenue in New York City and shoot a random passerby. He will then announce his candidacy for the nomination of the Rep*blican Party for President of the United States in 2024. [Read more] “trump to announce candidacy for 2024”
I DON’T FOLLOW EDITORIAL CARTOONING, although I certainly appreciate the fact that we may be living in its golden age. There are so many brilliant individuals who combine political and social insight with intelligence and with along with the ability to draw! While I have paid a certain amount of attention to avid Horsey, part of that is because he is so well known here in the Pacific Northwest. [Read more] “patrick chappatte and will eisner and graphic journalism”
WHEN I WAKE IN THE MORNING, the first thing I do is make a mug of Café Bustelo coffee. I don’t wake up with my brain/mind functioning at 95 percent as I used to—more like 75 percent. As I sip my coffee, I warm up the ol’ ratiocinator for the day’s writing by perusing Quora and answering a few questions. [Read more] “the poor questioner might infer that I was judging him”
RESPONDING TO A QUESTION on Quora, I used my answer as the basis for a short article that I titled, “Conservatives Not Exactly Enthralled by Trump Are a Problem.” I was addressing what I assumed was a conservative individual who posted that some conservatives “aren’t exactly enthralled” with Trumps’ presidency.
The point of my piece was to take the questioner to task for so timid a response to Trump. [Read more] “can we call trump’s tweeted temper tantrums “tweetrums”?”
THIS ONE IS A DOOZY! The question on Quora was, “Would liberals be surprised to learn that conservatives aren’t exactly enthralled with Donald Trump either?” One must make some assumptions when engaging other Internetally, so I assume that the person who posted this question is politically conservative. I also assume that he assumes that asking it displays his feelings and opinion about the current administration as being reasonable. [Read more] “conservatives not exactly enthralled by trump are a problem”
I SKIPPED “MONSTER TALK” with Blake Smith as he prepared for CryptidCon in the latest Skeptic newsletter. The question “What does science have to tell us about monsters” didn’t attract my interest. Nor did common misconceptions about the origins and development of identical and fraternal twins. [Read more] “the hydra of hate bubbling beneath america’s surface”
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a blog about this, that, and a few other things
Mystically liberal Virgo enjoys long walks alone in the city at night in the rain with an umbrella and a flask of 10-year-old Laphroaig who strives to live by the maxim, “It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble; it’s what you know that just ain’t so.
I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a college dropout (twice!). Occupationally, I have been a bartender, jewelry engraver, bouncer, landscape artist, and FEMA crew chief following the Great Flood of ’72 (and that was a job that I should never, ever have left).
I am also the final author of the original O’Sullivan Woodside price guides for record collectors and the original author of the Goldmine price guides for record collectors. As such, I was often referred to as the Price Guide Guru, and—as everyone should know—it behooves one to heed the words of a guru. (Unless, of course, you’re the Beatles.)
