Cruel times

Saw a homeless guy give up on a dollar when it blew under the rolling wheels of a bus. Thought about Scott Walker.

Black Splatter

Friend told me he made a home brew called "Black Splatter." Thought of judge Prosser.

Dung beetles

Noticed a dung beetle in a dog turd. Thought of Scott Walker.

Decency aside

Somewhere in the entire world there must be some decency that can rise to the level of political leadership. First to tell you, I don't get it. Some congresscritter tweets his junk and the news cycle carries on for days about it. Corruption gone venial, endemic moral disregard for humans in legislative agendas, entire economic policies forked over to greed, public education tossed off the boat...

Republicans have been squeezing public education long enough now that the results are showing up. Enough people with only a biased and limited education are easy to manipulate no matter how smart they are. The facts, as they know the facts, are based on false premises. Add a completely corporate media talking tweet junk 24/7 and you elect more republicans.

But I digress. On one hand, corporate media demands a puritanical moral cleanliness from political leadership. On the other hand, the right hand it seems, corporate media spins 24/7 about the virtues of the most vile sorts of non solutions to real problems. You end up with a Paul Ryan being treated as some sort of hero when in fact anything he has so far proposed would literally cut millions of the most vulnerable people off at the knees.

You can learn more about Ryan's greasy hair watching and reading news than you'd ever be offered about the consequences of his Medicare policies. At this stage, Ryan could probably pull his junk out and slap it right on the podium during a speech and he'd get lauded in the media not only as a hero but a damn manly hero.

Or not. I don't know. It'd burn up a lot of bandwidth at any rate.

Even given the rather narrow educational levels of our country, I'm still not sure where the sense of decency has gone. Christianity isn't helping much here. Isn't religion supposed to provide people with some sort of moral compass? If so, the magnetic fields have reversed.

So it is, I guess. No more public education but hey, look on the bright side, we'll be able to all hide a gun in our pants!

When is it time?

Republican ghoul fest continues unabated

The screams and death spasms of innocent people being eaten by republican zombie legislators in Wisconsin are unbearable to witness. But for me, it's the sounds of bones cracking and the lip smacking jowls of the ghouls as they feast. Seeing Scott Fitzgerald actually pick his rotten teeth with bone splinters makes me gag.

Kevorkian-esk republicans

Learned Jack Kevorkian died. Thought about Paul Ryan.