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Now for Best Political Puke in a Leading Role, the Nominees are:  Ted Cruze for “Mexican Vacation” for his role as an Escape Artist; Josh Hawley for “Hold Your Fist High” for his role as an Insurrectionist; Lauren Boebert for “The Colorado Quack” for her role as a Village Idiot; Marjorie Taylor Greene for “Q-Ball Queen” for her role as a Jewish Laser Beam; Matt Gaetz for “Venmo’s My M.O.” for his role as an Under the Covers Agent; Ron Johnson for “What’s My Whine?” for his role as the Head of the P.C.A. (Pointless Conspiracy Agency).  May I have the envelope please?  And the winner is………oops, sorry, I’m getting ahead of myself.  Since I and a ton of other folks were in the majority and missed this year’s Oscars, I thought I would call to your attention something that was missing, besides viewership, in this year’s ceremony: Political Pundits.  The competition was fierce and there was plenty of dissension in the ranks with every puke for themselves.  Anyone ...

I don’t even know which topic to lecture on today .  We are deluged by so many news flashes all at once, that In a span of 5 minutes, or less, I went from discussing Kevin McBurger’s time delayed Red Meat debacle on Fox Folly, to the Catholic Church’s telling Biden that wafer tablets are a no-no to Rudy Giuliani and the Deep Six Travelin’ Salvation Show.  Plus, yes, there’s more, as we can’t forget about the Pillow Fight on late night must see TV.  So much diction and so little time. First off, let’s cover the old debunked news that won’t go away.  Last Monday, the Fox Fools had backtracked on the Biden - Red Meat story that was pure malarkey.  They were up in arms about the President wanting the public to narrow their meat consumption down to 4#’s a year.  When Trump heard that, he admitted to eating 4#’s the day before.  Wha?  I swear, this guy is alive in spite of himself.  Appears that the “Pubs” were feeding (get it?) into the meat malar...

Tucker Carlson will soon become a distant memory for the world to cherish, except for the Tucker Carsonites who live and breath his very Being.  Many of you folks know by now that my association with the Fox Fallacy Outlet is on the same level as the rest of the “Rogue Right” and Fox finds themselves in a peculiar situation.  Save for their top ridiculer, the rest of the crew are expendable liabilities as Carlson is the only entity holding that News Misinformation Network together.  Murdoch and his mad misinformed maggots are being held up by the thinnest of threads by TC SUPERSTAR, who has become more popular than both Jesus and The Beatles.  However, that thread being used is like a fine twine that’s beginning to unwind and after his cross the line utterance yesterday, it’s time for that thread to snap! I had no idea who this madman was until after the Presidential Election that, by the way, still isn’t over.  It’s been almost 5 months and they’re still re-re-...

WTF!!!!!!!!  The world has turned upside down and the Republicans are acting like a bunch of f@#$ing gorillas.  Wow, it’s been almost 6 months (176 days, actually) since I last typed that statement.  November 1st, 2020 was the day I decided to task myself to the written word.  After all these years, I decided, on that day, to finally become a writer, a journalist, if you will, of political (and other) satire of the humorous sarcasm variety.  The 1st article I spewed out was titled, “Indescribably Malicious” and after 100 of these, absolutely nothing has changed, except more gorillas were sworn in as Members of the 117th Congress last January 3rd.  And you know what?  The election STILL ISN’T OVER!  The CRAZIES are still at it!  Believe it, or not, there is another recount in Arizona as we speak.  This is the never ending story that is going to cost us taxpayers into oblivion.  These cultists and their golden goose are a cancer ridde...

I have a lot of faith that there will always be a lot of stupid people that will keep doing stupid things creating stupid consequences.  This is going to be a tale about such a dope that the only thing missing on this guy, besides a brain, is one of those Bill Engval, here’s your sign guy, signs.  First, a little background.  I’m sure that some of you folks out there have been to our Nation’s Capital, Washington D.C.  My family and I made the trip sometime back in Obama’s 1st term.  We went to see all the usual sights there and across the river in Arlington.  There were 2 main sights that were mandatory for me: JFK’s eternal flame gravesite and “The Wall” plus all the wonders we could set our eyes on.  Most of our time was spent on the National Mall which had to be crunched into only 2 days.  The best view of the area was from the Washington Monument.  Everywhere we went felt like hallowed ground and we went and saw everything, even the Marin...

Happy Anniversary!  Chees, where did the time go?  It’s been a year already since the stupidest utterance of nonsense ever escaped a U.S. President’s vocal cords.  At ease now.  Some of you folks out there may argue a well substantiated case for Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson and that would be a well accountable statement, but hey, when we are dealing with both stupid and stupider, it’s way too close to call.  You may be pondering now as to whom is the more stupid one?  I am pleased to announce that, “It doesn’t matter” for a whole variety of reasons.  As Forrest Gump always says, “Stupid Is As Stupid Does” and Donald Trump and Ron Johnson are perfect paradigms for that. I realize that 4 years of hell has produced over 30,000 false or misleading claims. I dispute that, that’s not near enough.  I would be more apt to believe that every time he moved his lips would have been a misstatement.  However, I will go along with the general consensus an...

To answer Jimmy Kimmel’s question when he asked, “What the hell was that” after playing the tape of Tucker Carlson’s hyena laugh meltdown while talking to his guest, Ed Gavin, former New York City Corrections Official, I believe, is a trick question.  There are 2 entities in question here that would automatically place any answer given in a highly suspect category.  The entities are Tucker Carlson and Fox wannabe News Network.  Each one is an example of questionable ethics and if you place them together, as in this case, then you have a portend of a perplexing paradigm.  One cannot give credence as to quantify their existence, but they certainly deserve each other.  In case you missed it, Carlson had Ed Gavin on his show after the Derek Chauvin verdict was read.  While the guest was describing what should have instead taken place during the George Floyd arrest, Carlson interrupts with a smarmy retort about Chauvin, “Spending the rest of his life in prison” ...

It is absolutely amazing as to how many articles I scan online everyday to see if there is an “off the wall” story that I can go into detail over.  I have found some bona fide ones that could use some recognition that are sort of shoved over into the far obscure corners of the internet.  Some days are successful, but most days aren’t.  I feel like I am living proof of the Star Trek Intro that ends with, “To boldly go to where no (man) one has gone before.”  The problem now is that the news stories have become saturated with gross negligence of bombastic nonsense.  These are the articles that I no longer delve into like I used to.  There was a time when I would foam at the mouth over an article about Trump rambling off course and stumbling over his words, repeating over and over a certain point a dozen times in a single paragraph.  Then there is Fox Non-News regaling in the aura of “His Munificence” and lauding over the future convict’s plans to be...

Maxine Waters, a Black Democratic Congresswoman from California came to Brooklyn Center, Minnesota to stand with other protestors over the shooting death of Daunte Wright, yet another Black Man while the proceedings are taking place in the Derek Chauvin trial in neighboring Minneapolis.  So, we first have the death of George Floyd, a Black Man being restrained in a prone position with Officer Derek Chauvin’s knee on his neck until pronounced dead.  And now, just down the pike a piece, we have another White Police Officer mistaking her gun for a taser, which she fires and kills another Black victim.  Right now, I’m holding my breath as to who is going to be the next Black victim, since these occurrences sometimes have a tendency to run in sets of 3.  Representative Waters blew into town to lend her support.  This is my 2nd time this week to see her in the news.  I had not heard of her before until just 4 days ago when she told that creepy Ohio Republican bul...

Is there such a thing as poetic justice?  I had not heard the phrase until I was a 22 year old G.I. in the crotch rot country of Vietnam back in “The Summer of 69.”  The words were spoken by our unit’s 1st Sergeant in reply to the Chaplin’s utterance of, “Those who live by the sword, shall die by the sword!”  Now that phrase I heard time and time again when I was a 6th grade altar boy back in the summer of ‘59.  There are probably other references of the day such as, “Put Your Foot In Your Mouth” and “What Goes Around Comes Around,” but the poetic justice thing is prime.  I started paying attention to certain folks who seemed ready, willing and able to turn themselves into a human cluster***k who ultimately find themselves in harm’s way.  In some cases, I feel slightly bad for them and in others, not at all.  Such is the case of a leading conspiracy theorist who thought Covid-19 was a hoax and died from the virus after hosting illegal house parties....

The Bill to reauthorize a bone marrow transplant program was passed by the House on Thursday evening.  It reauthorizes the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program and National Cord Blood Inventory, which facilitate bone marrow and umbilical cord blood donations and transplants for people with leukemia or other blood diseases.  Now I don’t know what all that means and I’m not equipped to do medical articles out of my realm, but this sounds really important and you will soon see as to why I am making an exception.  On the surface, this looks like one of those bi-partisan shoo-in votes that should get close to 100% approval.  It’s not exactly like the vote that took place on Dec. 8th, 1941, but medically speaking, it would be close to that level and I guess it was as the vote was 415-2.  I like it when the House passes no brainer Bills like this.  Now comes the punch line: guess who the 2 nay-sayers were that voted against it?  I will give you a big ...

I like a good wine.  I am not a connoisseur and just consider myself a regular Joe Winer,   however, my palate can tell if the wine is good or bad.  I was raised on homemade Dago Red that was served at many a meal while growing up, since being from a huge Italian family, it was ingrained into our DNA.  For my own personal taste, wine falls into 2 categories: good (Stella Rosa) and so-so (Ripple) as there is no bad wine.  Now lets contrast that with “whiners.”  Again, I am not a connoisseur and have to rely on my palate to tell if the whine is good or bad and it also falls into 2 categories: whaaaa…..& more whaaaa…..since there is no good whine!  Okay now, pay attention!  There is a category in both of those examples that is mostly unreachable for most folks and that is Fine Wine/Whine.  I find it isn’t necessary to spend a great deal of time in order to sip the excellent costly wine, just as it isn’t necessary to spend a great deal of tim...

Where do these people come from?  There is one universal consistency in our lives and that is we will always be bombarded by bombastic bodacious babblers.  Here we go again dawdling down deja vu drive with another headline grabbing prophetic pest.  I was hoping that the last article I had written about a religious radical was the last time I had to explain that mixing Church and State is never a good idea.  It’s another one of those banana cream pie & ketchup concoctions that end up with a bad taste result.  I should have known that my lambasting article on March 10th titled, “Prophetic Pest” wasn’t going to be the end of it and more of these slugs were bound to crawl out from under their stone home.  Let’s see what this collaborator of contentious commentary has to say, then. His title is Pastor Jeff Jansen, another self-described prophet, who leads the “Global Fires Ministries International” in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.  First off, I am a simplist...

Okay, I’ll let you all be the judge and jury of the following statement that I came across that was buried in the dark corners of the internet where I usually find my strange and highly unusual articles of confoundation.  This is a Los Angeles Times letter to the editor ( https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-04-12/huntington-beach-ku-klux-klan ) about the “burb” of Huntington Beach.  Headline: “Common ground with the Ku Klux Klan?  Huntington Beach has a problem.”  The letter starts off with, “As Huntington Beach was preparing for a Ku Klux Klan rally and, in response, a Black Lives Matter counter protest, police department spokesman Lt. Brian Smith said,” now here’s the kicker, “We hope that they can utilize events like this as a means to find the common ground and work together for the common goal.”  ???  I thought I would substitute the usual WTF that usually follows an incredulous statement like that with question marks.  I never pass up the ...

Maybe you can help me out here.  I need to figure out a way to get on Trump’s shit list.  This is a real bucket list item, it’s right up there with being a rock star.  I can’t do monetary compensation, but I’d give my eye teeth to make that list.  Imagine that, being a public enemy of public enemy #1.  I know what you are all thinking.  Yeah, I keep giving him a platform, but I’m just following the lead of all these other publications.  Take today’s top headline (besides the BBC’s 24/7 news coverage about the demise of a rich royal prince). This top news headline from Politico Magazine is something that news journalists die for:  “Dumb Son of a Bitch: Trump Rips McConnell at Mar-a-Lago.”  What needs clarification here is that Trump was at Mar-a-Lago when he said that, but McConnell wasn’t.  Now that’s what I’m talking about.  To be able to get that kind of attention from that malignant maggot and have him spew those kinds of words ...

Tucker Carlson of the Fox Fallacy Entertainment Network has just denigrated his ancestors.  In case you missed his bonehead spew about replacement voters yesterday, let me ease your pain and show you how to proceed with a post Tucker Carlson outburst.  First off, if his lips are moving, there is a 99 and 44/100ths percent chance that whatever he is embellishing is mere conspiracy theory and you will be just fine.  My advice to you is just eliminate Fox from your daily repertoire.  If you happened upon his tirade, or have read about it, then you may have seen a word you don’t see everyday. One that I have neither seen nor heard before, but I guessed pretty good before I looked it up.  The word is “ahistoric” and my guess was, “An ignorance of history.”  I typed in ahistoric and got reverted to ahistorical, which made sense, since the word ahistoric typed out on my laptop is underlined in red and you know what that means.  I came up with 3 definitions: ...

Okay, you’re not going to believe this one.  I can’t stop laughing over the latest Repugnican Party marketing scheme.  Before I fill you in, I need to tell you about the last time I laughed this long.  It was in the Spring of 2009 and I was driving south on I-35 and heading to the Twin Cities.  About 40 miles from my destination, I saw this huge billboard of the former President Bush, Jr. doing a little jig with headlines that said, “Do you miss me yet?”  I laughed for the rest of the way.  I have now beaten that record and it took another political arm of the Republican Party.  This time, it’s the National Republican Congressional Committee who has printed up a big bright yellow warning box on their recurring monthly donations site that states: “We need to know we haven’t lost you to the Radical Left.  If you UNCHECK this box, we will have to tell Trump you’re a DEFECTOR & sided with the Dems.  CHECK this box and we can win back the Hous...

According to statistics, you have a 50-50 shot in your day-to-day lifestyle that you will run into a Republican that is living in an alternate reality unless, of course, a non-reality Republican runs into another non-reality Republican.  Under the law of averages, this will occur a time or two.  I, on the other hand, believe that whoever came up with those statistics are too kind.  I am of the ilk that all Republicans have no immunity to this scurrilous syndrome.  Republicans, in general, live in an alternate universe.  What’s even worse are those Republicans who have taken up with the Q-Quack quandary and other conspiratorial theories are forever lost to any sense and sensibilities that we commoners have no desire to engage with.  I have found myself not engaging in discourse with those out there that fall into this area.  You may think that is cruel and maybe so, but Iike Covid, prudence rules! I have a game plan in place that I will share with you t...

What is your favorite area when you visit a zoo?  Everyone likes to see the awesome beasts like the lions and tigers and bears, oh my!  Scoping out the giraffes in tall order is also a priority, but most of my time was spent watching the monkeyshines on Monkey Island at the Como Zoo in Saint Paul, Minnesota.  It was cheap entertainment watching these characters “go ape” over their antics and ‘monkey around” with boundless energy. If I had 1/100ths of that energy, I would be set for life.  So, where is all this animalistic talk leading to and what does it have to do with the political scene?  Well, I’m glad you asked! What you need to visualize is a simplistic universe, in which the inhabitants on Monkey Island are these young brash National Enquirer type Republicans and the zoo is the Republican Party.  If you can accomplish that, then the rest of this article will be prime entertainment.  I parlay my denigration of these pseudo-primates time and time ...

Texas and Florida occupy pleasant memories.  I lived there in the 60’s and 70’s and became absorbed into the environment.  Florida for the fun and sun and Texas for the food and fun.  As much as I would like to pop in and out of there, on occasion, during the winter season, I do not have any desire to be anywhere near those geographical locations anytime soon.  Truth be known, they have become the bane of our existence as far as state government is concerned.  We are on the verge of these pandemic variants going hog wild.  I can imagine all these microscopic felons floating around with each other and laughing their microbes off.  If you could hear them communicate they would be saying things like, “wow, this is so easy!”  Word in the lab is that they get on their cell phones (get it, CELL phones) and call their cousins to “come on down to Crackerville and Wackotown!  Everything is wide open down here and ripe for the pickin’!”.  Talk abo...

I am on the cusp of becoming a senior senior.  Right now, I am a junior senior.  I don’t mean to confuse you by using the senior word twice in a row, but I need to explain that I have been a senior for quite some time, but when you turn 75, you become a senior senior.  Being a junior senior though still has its perks, i.e., a monthly Social Security deposit in an undisclosed offshore Swiss bank account that is unknown to all living matter, except for me and a dark, mysterious Italian consiglieri, that I have never met by the name of Vinnie Vino.  He is my social security for my Social Security.  You need to understand, when you end up going the senior senior route, your whole life changes.  There are some changes you plan for and can control, but the vast majority of them end up controlling you and they can be pretty messy.  Hmm, not sure if a mess can be described as pretty.  So what does all of this have to do with politics?  Probably nothi...