The Days Of Our Anti-Lives!

From time to time, I shake my head and muse how my country can be so busted, that a loathsome figure like the "Tangerine Tojo" can still command so much support in the upcoming election? Maybe when those outlandish claims years ago about fluoride in the water supply weren't so crazy after all. Maybe decades of diminished capacity have now reached a critical mass moment and stupidity has become the greatest domestic product of these United States of America.  And now the stupidest Ex-President ever has joined forces with the son of a political martyr from the one of the most famous families in these here United States, a man who claims worms ate his brain and who while returning from a bout of falconing,  just so happened to drop off a dead bear in Central Park creating a mild sensation and only copping to the prank this year. RFK Jr. is an eccentric attention-seeking crank regardless of your opinion about vaccinations. (The vaccination scare is the fluoride of the modern

One can feel it, like the cliched hairs on the back of the neck, there is a palpable desire for change. It is only due to the now archaic nature of the democratic process of the United States that our federal races are so close. Democrats have won the popular vote in all but one Presidential election this century despite only winning the office half the time. There are more Democrats than Republicans in the United States and the expanse between the two parties only grows. The current totals are around forty-eight million Democrats with only thirty-five million Republicans and nearly as many Independents. So, it perhaps should come as no surprise that the energy of the Democratic National Convention is a wonder to behold. The Democratic Convention is like its counterpart a vehicle from an olden time to pick federal officers. It's not really necessary anymore, but it has found a new purpose and that is to showcase the desire and the capability of the Party to bring about change. Peop

America is an idea. Unlike nearly any other nation on this planet, this country was conjured out of the idealism of an enlightened era when it was for the first time imagined that citizens might govern themselves. Admittedly that definition of "citizen" was a narrow one, not including black slaves and women of any kind. Eventually those slaves were freed and in time given a real chance to vote for their own leadership. Women came into the fold later still. Now all adult Americans are gifted with the opportunity to vote for the kind of leadership they desire.  Sadly, craven men and women have conspired over the decades to makes us all think our destiny is not in our hands. Some are misled by ministers and preachers who direct their flock's attention to the hereafter and make the here and now merely a holding pattern, one without a real future. Other vile folks seek to constantly limit the voting power of men and women with outlandish schemes to arrange maps with absurd bou

The United States hasn't gotten screwed quickly. The Supreme Court has been chipping away at liberty for a few decades now, pretty much about the same time when John Robert became Chief Justice. The scheme seems to be to use the Constitution against itself, corrupting its clear intent and make the world safe for corporations and Caucasians.  Let's just start in this century (Roberts was not yet the head of the court) with Bush V. Gore , when the Supreme Court awarded the 2000 Presidential election to George Bush despite the fact that history has shown than Al Gore actually won. The bizarre interplay between the branches of United States government took a turn that day. It led to a year of a President who lacked authenticity, and if not for the tragic intervention of 9-11, it's a tension that would've continued. But that attack on the nation melded the populace but sadly allowed the creation of the Patriot Act which increased the state's ability to scrutinize the pe

Is it just me or is "Sweet Potato Hitler" getting crazier? The bastard has been self-absorbed and deluded for most of his life, but it seems these days he's well and truly out of control, so much so that even reporters eager to resurrect his campaign have trouble corralling him long enough to talk about anything other than his own personal problems. I cannot remember a time when a public figure dodged a bullet and elicited so little sympathy. Even his comrades in evil only want him upright and warm so as to spearhead their attack on democracy and civil order. Upright and warm seems to be about all he can deliver to crowds who are increasingly bored by his endless rants. His rhetoric is musty and while effective once upon a time to a select crowd, has lost all of its charms. This particular "Pied Piper" seems to be unable to wrangle the rats any longer. It's a new day. He's old news.  Rip Off  

We still have too many days until our next "most important election of our lifetimes". But the time is drawing down and the situation on the ground has changed dramatically. My man Joe Biden as stepped down as a candidate and his chosen successor Kamela Harris has stepped in and to my surprise and great joy, my party has rallied around her candidacy in a way I didn't imagine possible. Is she that fine a candidate? She's proven herself to be pretty good. I applaud her choice of Tim Walz as her VP, because he's a guy who clearly wants to be there for all the right reasons and he brings proven political chops. He wasn't a choice made out of timidity, and that's powerful in itself. But the truth is other factors are at play in this election as well.   The momentum has so shifted in the past month, that the dread of a second term under "Sweet Potato Hitler" has dimmed to longshot at best. The mavens who predict these things are all seeing the changing

Well, the papaw that damn near ate democracy shambled forth yesterday and summoned his lackeys from the news media to attend his every incoherent word. After a few weeks of getting decimated by his opponents in the press, Trump felt it was time to try and get his noggin on TV again and so had a "press conference" which in true dictator fashion rambled on for over an hour. During this time, he said nothing new and only complained again and again about how unfair life was to him. He insulted his opponents on the Democratic side over and over, with slurs that issuing from the mouth of any other public figure would have drawn instant fire. But for him, there was no reproof in real time and little after to be honest. It was yet another shameful exercise for the news in which they were lapdogs and licked up his evil brew rather than create a ruckus they'd not hesitate to lambast other citizens of our fine country with. They prove themselves to be cowards yet again, and it was t

"Weird" is the word of the day. The Dems have discovered that of all things, the Republicans don't like to be called weird. So, in true playground tradition, they have taken to referring to their political opponents as weird. I long ago accepted my weirdness. Being an adult reading comic books is weird. Collecting them is fine. They are wonderful investments potentially and everyone gets that. But actually reading them is weird. Admittedly less so than in decades past by a goodly margin, but still and all. To this day, I will rarely take a comic with me into the outside world to read. I don't want to damage my books, so that's a main reason. But another is I don't want to be thought of as weird. But it could be worse. I could be a Republican. Those guys are well and truly weird.  Rip Off