At Sullie's Place

I disagreed with my wife just now, something that I never do, since the repercussions are quite disturbing.  Here’s what went down.  She stated that Mitch McConnell can’t stoop any lower into the depravity he wallows in.  I stood tall, took a deep breath, looked her right in the eye and spewed out “Yes he can!”  It was a moment frozen in time and then she smiled.   No systematic repercussions followed.  Whew!  Now, as a politician, he has a certain inalienable right to say one thing and mean another, or to talk out of two sides of his mouth, but Mitcheroo, has the extraneous ability to talk out of two faces.  Unfortunately, those two faces resemble both Scrooge and The Grinch.  Isn’t it easy for someone with a net worth of $22,200,000 to stand at a podium in the hallowed halls of Congress and object to raising the stimulus check amount from $600.00 to $2,000.00?  Then there’s Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania, who said there are too many citize...

74,223,744 ding-a-lings voted for Trump in the 2020 election.  Ain’t that something?  Out of those 74,223,744 ding-a-lings there will be family members and hangers on of his, that I will need to exclude.  I will be generous, in my benefit of a doubt, if all his family members voted for him.  I don’t know for sure and maybe his wife didn’t vote for him at all, you know, she may not be affiliated with either of the 2 major parties and be a member of one of the 223 other ones.  She may be a founding member of the 3rd Wives Party and if so, I won’t be able to exclude her.  And if that’s the case, other family members may have sided with her and jumped ship.  And how do we know if Trump had even voted for himself.  He gets confused a lot and may have filled in the wrong circle.  Same thing can be said about Biden, as they are both in their 70’s and are susceptible to mental irregularities.  I myself am in my 70’s and I can certainly attest to...

I have yet to see the film “Yesterday” about a singer-songwriter by the name of Jack who gets in an accident during a global blackout.  When he wakes up, things become a little strange when he plays tunes by “The Beatles” that no one seems to have heard before.  When he googles the group, all he gets is a beetle insect and Jack ends up a musical phenom playing Beatles cover songs.  That’s about all I really know about the movie, but I brought it up to serve as a background to what, I believe, would be another interesting alternate reality.  It would be sooooo cooooool if there were another global blackout and I got into an accident and became another Jack.  I would wake up and everything would look normal and folks would be acting like regular folks going about their business like they didn’t have a care in the world.  There’s my spousal unit watching a news program and I ask her if they have reported the latest Covid numbers.  She looks at me and says...

I’m going to borrow a movie scene in order to lay the groundwork of yet, another humorously entertaining article.  The movie is “The Replacements” starring Gene Hackman and Keanu Reeves.  It’s a football movie about guys coming off the streets to take the place of Pro players out on strike.  Hackman plays the coach and Reeves is a former college standout quarterback trying to turn this collection of combatants into an organized competitive team.  When Hackman suggests these guys talk about their worst fears, Reeves talks about how things can go from bad to worse in a game.  The more you try to fix it, the deeper you sink, like quicksand.  Politics is not supposed to be like the movies.  Movies are escapism, for entertainment purposes only. However, the Republican Party seems to be encroaching onto the entertainment field and for some of us, it’s enthralling academy award winning material.  I don’t think anyone can actually write a screenplay about...

I know little to nothing about what I am about to write.  I wasn’t a college guy.  I graduated from high school and went into the military back in the 60’s, so letter arrangements such as, AA; BA; MA; PHD; MD etc. didn’t mean a whole lot to someone from the streets, except for MD.  We all knew that meant Medical Doctor.  With the exception of polio shots, I didn’t see much of doctors growing up.  Most of the DOC’s I had seen were in Bugs Bunny comic books.  So what exactly entitles someone to have the term Dr. before their name?  These past couple days have been flooded with articles, both pro and con, about Dr. Jill Biden.   Let’s, for the sake of argument, look at a hypothetical situation.  President Biden and the 1st Lady are flying aboard Air Force One and the President is having a conversation with a staff member, who happens to be a former teacher.  The 1st Lady walks in and the President introduces the two of them to each o...

We are now at, “The Worst Of Times,” perambulating into, “The Winter Of Our Discontent,” whilst being bombarded by, “The Dark Side,”  My apologies to Dickens, Shakespeare and Lucas, but there is a disturbance in The Force.  Donny and the Storm Troopers are still running amok, trying to keep his political base of mis-informed minions all riled up in their attempt to ignore the Constitution and tear apart our Democracy.  The Retrumplican Party is cowering at this 2 year olds feet, afraid of his tantrums and revenge at the expense to the rest of us and our Nation.  Is this what the Grand Old Party has evolved into, a Party that promotes force and violence?   Honest Abe has to be turning over in his grave.  To make matters worse, 50+ lawsuits have been filed since election day and his winning record is so dismal, that if he were an NFL coach, he would be out of a job.  The latest debacle involved the Supreme Court over his attempt to have a million Pennsyl...

What do you get with 500 republican voters in the bottom of the ocean?  A good start!  Okay, I know I know, I used an old lawyer joke and turned it into a gambit to victimize Trump supporters.  However, there is more than one way to skin a cat, meaning, there are a ton of variables to that joke.  All you need to do is replace the word lawyer, with a different subject.  Here are a couple examples:  How can you tell if Trump is lying?  His lips are moving!  How does Trump sleep at night?  First, he lies on one side, then he lies on the other!  After all the lies and misdirection plays we have been inundated with these past few weeks, with no end in sight will, in the end, go for naught.  On January 20th, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States.  Will Trump be there?  Not only will he not be at the inauguration, he will not be anywhere near Washington D.C. and will have, most likely been whisked ...