Month: October 2021

Just Under The Skin

In the heat of the moment, Joe Manchin revealed his true self. It’s not Biden’s “Build Back Better” that he objects to. His problem is simple. He wants to revert back to congressional earmarks, and extract some pork for his State’s coal mining industry. Build Back Better is a dagger in the heart to fossil fuel bitter clingers on many levels, which explains why Manchin’s nostrils flaired when he clapped back at Senator Bernie Sanders and called him a socialist (pinko).

I’m going to take a leap of faith, and guess that Kyrsten Sinema, is concerned that her constituency may want to repeal that silly MLK Holiday.

Newsom’s Folly

A mandate?
My grandmother was 1/2 native American. My wife’s mother is Indian. My daughters have blindly chosen black dolls, white dolls, male or female dolls, teddy bears, toy monkeys, toy helicopters and trucks.
All with no mandate. What does a gender neutral toy look like? Is there a button where the toxic male penis would be?

A toy is an impulse purchase. A kid wants what a kid wants because it’s “cute”, not because it was in a designated gender space on the rack.. This is simple pandering in the worst kind of way. Newsom thinks that he can peel off a few more votes, if the non binaries hear that he carved out a niche for them at the toy store. It makes Newsom (and the entire state) look petty and silly, and unless he’s running against Trump or Elder next time, I probably will not vote for him again.

“The soft bigotry of low expectations ”
~George W. Bush

Is Dave Chappelle Nuts?

Chappelle has transcended the entertainment genre known as comedian. He may have caught

our attention, performing joke after joke, but he is now a storyteller. He commands our attention and forces us to follow a narrative. Once he has us thinking, he let’s us off the hook with a punchline. Now you don’t know if he was serious or just pulling your leg. Note that I sarcastically said that YOU don’t know what to think. I get it. It was only funny because you don’t want to face the fact that he tossed in your face. I have never heard Mark Twain, but I’ve heard that was his M/O. I have heard Dick Gregory and George Carlin. They ultimately transcended comedy, and became ambassadors of thought provoking social commentary. If you haven yet recognized that Dave Chappelle is taking you down the same journey – you will.