Newsman (sic) have a very short attention span. It is a prerequisite in the business. That is why the news accounts of almost everything makes sense to all ages up to the age of twelve. If one wishes to enjoy newspapers, it is wise to halt all intellectual development right up to that age. The schools are doing their level best to achieve this goal. For the first time in history it is possible to earn doctorates in obscure professional techniques without upsetting the standard of a twelve-year-old basic intellect. – Travis McGee from A Deadly Shade of Gold published in 1965.

Wow! Was John D MacDonald spot on or what? And this was before Gender Studies and African Racial Grievance Studies.

Newspapers have only gotten worse.

I started reading newspapers back in the 50’s. we had the St. Louis Post Dispatch delivered every afternoon. I started with the funnies. Then in my teens, I started reading the sports page and occasionally the news sections because of Civics and Social Studies assignments.

The first newspaper I started reading on my own was the Chicago Tribune back in 1966 when I was going to ET School at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. I wrote my first letter to the editor and it got published! I was pretty proud of that.

When I moved out of my mom’s house I started getting the Post Dispatch delivered to my apartment.

When I moved to Atlanta back in 1985 I started getting the Urinal, which was the afternoon paper and “Covered Dixie like the dew”. No longer. Dixie is politically incorrect and the paper no longer has that wide a circulation any more.

The Urinal was the afternoon paper and was conservative. The Constipation was the morning paper and was liberal.

The two papers have long since merged and have gone consistently downhill. Lewis Grizzard and Celestine Sibley are long dead and they have found no one to replace either of them. The current writer is a joke.

The editorial page is a joke. They’ve fired the local op-ed writers and the only op-eds are in the Sunday paper. The reason given for no longer having national op-ed writers on a daily basis is all they did was “rehash the same arguments”. Of course, that doesn’t stop them from having the same tired liberal opinion of their cartoonist Mike Luckovich who rehashes the same I hate Trump bullshit every. During the week they only publish two letters to the editor a day.

They’ve trimmed the sports page and since most of the sports have become woke, it doesn’t take me long to zip through that section.

Even the funnies suck. There are a few good ones like Pearls Before Swine. Most of the rest can’t compare with comics like L’l Abner or Pogo.

The paper is not worth reading anymore and as soon as my current subscription is over my 35 year association with Atlanta newspapers will be over.

Sad.

From Ray.

It was late 1967. I was on the USS Comstock (LSD-19) somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I had a transistor radio and I picked up a radio station and this was playing. Wow! Who the heck is this? Great song! First time I ever heard The Who.

His 33rd sonata.

Now on harpsichord played by Scott Ross. Thanks to Claudia who turned me on to Scott Ross. He recorded every single one of Scarlatti’s sonatas.

From Jesse. (more…)

I could give it to the NFL as I watch it self destruct. Ratings are way down from the opener last year.

Instead, I’m giving it to Thunder Rodent Thighs. She’s still going on about Russia. Give it a break Crooked Cankles!

Didja see BJ in that video? I really expected to see his eyes blinking Morse code for “Help me!”. Yannow, I would feel sorry for him if he weren’t such a dooshbag and a serial abuser of women and girls.

You wonder why these two stay married, then you realize that they both have dirt on each other. As long as they stay married, they can’t testify against each other.

Here’s your award Cankles.

I’ve started rereading all of the Travis McGee books by John D. MacDonald. Besides being a hero McGee is quite the philosopher.

New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like any grasshoppers. When the critical point is reached, they turn savage and swarm, and try to eat the world. We’re nearing a critical point. One day soon two strangers will bump into each other at high noon in the middle of New York. But this time they won’t snarl and go on. They will stop and stare and then leap at each others’ throats in a dreadful silence. The infection will spread outward from that point. Old ladies will crack skulls with their deadly handbags. Cars will plunge down the crowded sidewalks. Drivers will be torn out of their cars and stomped. It will spread to all of the huge cities of the world, and by dawn ot the next day there will be a horrid silence of sprawled bodies and tumbled vehicles, gutted buildings and a few wisps of smoke. And through the silence will prowl a few, a very few of the most powerful ones, ragged and bloody, slowly tracking each other down. – Travis McGee from Nightmare in Pink

This was written way back in 1964.

The thing with locusts is the same with rats. If you put them in close quarters they go insane. Many of them turn queer.

That’s what we are seeing in our large cities. The people are going insane. They are electing idiots like Lori Lightweight, Bill DeBlasio, Ted Wheeler, Jacob Frey, and other big city mayors who are destroying their cities.

They’re electing people like the city council of Minneapolis who want to disband the police department.

WTF is wrong with these people? They’re insane. So are the people who elect them. That’s the only thing that makes sense.

The people of Cook County are about to reelect Kim Foxx who is releasing criminals without charging them. That’s insanity.

Here’s another insane idea. No bail. Why? Because it discriminates against poor people. So let’s let a violent crook out of jail without posting bail because he’s poor? Insanity.

Here’s another insane idea. Don’t go after shoplifters if they steal less than $1000. So now the looters know that as long as they steal less than $1000 they’re OK.

I wonder what MacDonald would have Travis McGee say about the current insanity going on in this country?

Ron rants.

O.K. So . . . we got rid of dodgeball and discouraged boys from playing cops’n’robbers or cowboys’n’injuns. Then kids had to wear helmets when riding bicycles. Next was “participation” trophies for just showin up. Now it’s “let criminals out of jail because of overcrowding and Chinese gleep.”

Jeez, folks, what the hell do you expect pampered, brainwashed people to do when they never learn that stupidity has consequences and in the real world you can get real hurt, or not get what you want. Stupid should hurt, and ignorance shouldn’t be rewarded.

The people who angrily and ignorantly accuse DJT of destroying the country are encouraging idiots to burn their own communities to ashes. Begs the question, do we really want the country run by the same party in charge of SanFran, New York, Portland, Chicago, L.A., Seattle, Baltimore?

The truth is that Democrats consider politics a form of warfare and anyone slightly right of left center is their enemy. And of course after saying gender and color are unimportant, they chose a veep candidate based on gender and color.

Dem talking heads have progressed from “these demonstrations and protests are the new civil rights movement” to “these demonstrations and protests are mostly peaceful” to “Riots? What riots? These are legitimate protests!” and finally to “Trump and his supporters are causing these riots.”

Probably won’t be long ‘til we see an Antifa mayor in a major leftist city, winning the vote on a mantra of “The Red Hats Are Coming ! The Red Hats Are Coming !!!” And “The bombing, burning, and looting will continue until white people surrender their privilege.”

Most people don’t know what the hell is going on, and they don’t know that they don’t know. Governments can’t stop plagues and epidemics . . . they can only multiply the problems they cause for business, education, employment, and sanity.

Most of the rioting and looting and burning going on is not related to social justice for some stoned black guy shot while resisting arrest but a perfect storm of cabin fever and the knowledge that they can get away with theft and vandalism without any serious consequences from the cops or the courts.

So far BLM has injured hundreds, maybe thousands, of police officers, killed dozens of people, and caused nearly $10 BILLION in damages by “protesting” and “Demonstrating” and STILL they’re endorsed by the mass media, professional sports, educators, and FAR too many members of Congress.

Looting and burning the grocery stores where you get your food or the pharmacies where you get your medical supplies and forcing them to close permanently is NOT justice for George Floyd . . . or anybody else. It’s flinging feces at society.

Dems have the loony old auntie in the attic . . . you know – the one who drinks and claims that the white man who brings home the bacon is the source of all the problems for the family – and the demented old uncle in the basement who doesn’t know where he is or what he’s doing there and can’t finish a sentence that makes sense.

Young people, mox nix if they’re black or white or tan, don’t really like being forced to stay home, to wear masks, to do without sports or parties or new movies, and many have been led to believe that the real world is just a huge video game which has safe spaces for them, which it doesn’t.

This is all about control, global control, a New Order, a one-world government with a privileged elite making the rules and living in luxury while everyone else must stay in vertical insect hives in order to “protect and preserve the environment.”

The politicization of Covid 19 is progressives’ taking advantage of a health crisis no worse than the Swine flu or the Hong Kong flu or the Bird flu or any other dangerous virus. Yes, people are dying from the WuHuflu, but most of them were already weakened by co-morbidities such as asthma, emphysema, diabetes, and so on.

Hell, I’ve had hangovers and fistfights that hurt worse than what most normal people under 75 experience with covid-19. That friggin attention whore Fauci reminds me of a guy who can’t determine if he’s found a rope or lost his dog.

What they want to do is restructure Western society by reshaping human behavior into a “new normal” in which we become comfortable wearing masks, following orders, and not driving around in gasoline-powered vehicles but staying in our cells to avoid contaminating the elderly.

The last thing they want is for the US and western Europe to “fix” anything quickly and return life to the normal we were comfortable with a year ago. They want a reset, not a return, and the pandemic is the opportunity for resocialization and “green new deals” and reducing the planet’s population along with global air, sea, and soil pollution.

Masks, social distancing, increased dependence upon government for subsistence . . . preparing us for RFID chips to track movements, mandatory vaccinations which will make Bill Gates & company even wealthier, and a global governance with redistribution of wealth.

From the World Economic Forum –Davos, last June:

“The world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economics, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed.” HFS!! BOHICA, y’all.

Trump is an obstacle to globalism, to wealth redistribution, to face masks, to multi-trillion-dollar green-new-deals where the environment is protected but at the cost of raison d’etre and joie de vivre.

Trump rescued us from the Paris Accord, and from the Iran “deal,” and gave the globalists at Davos the bird, so he must be destroyed and removed from office to give a malleable old doddering flip-flopper the power to remove the last bastion of personal freedom, of personal responsibility, of individual achievement, of capital investment, of competition, of initiative that stands in the way of one-world control, depopulation, fossil-fuel elimination, and absolute control over every aspect of the lives of naked apes.

An updated version of this joke from Ron in Ohio.

In Texas there is a town called New Braunfels, (Been There) where there is a large German-speaking population.

One day, a local rancher was driving down a country road and noticed a man using his hand to drink water from the rancher’s stock pond.

The rancher rolled down the window and shouted: “Sehr angenehm! Trink das Wasser nicht. Die kuehe haben darein geschissen.”

Which means: “Glad to meet you! Don’t drink the water. The cows have shit in it.”

The man shouted back: “I’m from New York and I’m just down here campaigning for Joe Biden. I can’t understand you. Please speak in English.”

Oh, I’m sorry, the rancher replied: “I said, Use both hands you’ll get more.”

Yeah. Here’s an idea whose time has come. Let’s defund the police. What’s amazing is how many people have bought into this bullshit. Not just criminals but others as well. This is like the sheep getting rid of the sheepdogs because the wolves have convinced them they are bad.

Of course, the Dimocrats are all for this. Remember, the Dimocrat Party is a crime syndicate masquerading as a political party so naturally they are all for this idiotic notion.

And what do the liberals want to replace the police with? An army of social workers.

911: what’s your problem?

There’s someone breaking down my door and I’m afraid he’s gonna rape me and steal all of my stuff.

911: Don’t worry. We’ll send a social worker over who will convince the dude that what he’s doing is wrong.

JHFC! WTF is wrong with these people? That’s a rhetorical question. Liberalism is a mental disorder and this defund the police bullshit is further proof of it.

Minneapolis is turning into an out of control shithole and their solution is to defund the police and give the criminals free rein. Sounds like a plan. Let the citizens of Minneapolis get what they voted for, good and hard.

And what started all of this crap? Career black thugs resisting arrest and getting killed by the cops and then elevated into sainthood.

Hey Africans, do you wonder why you’re mired in poverty? Because you worship the wrong sort of people.

St Michael of Swisher Sweets? A thug.

St. Trayvon of Skittles? A thug.

St Freddy of Heroin? A drug dealer.

St. George Floyd? A thug.

St. Rayshard of Wendy’s? A thug.

And now we have St Jacob, a serial sex abuser who is the latest black thug to be worshiped. He’s gonna have a hard time raping women from a wheelchair.

Yeah. Let’s abolish the police so thugs like these dudes can prey on innocent people.

Here’s a better idea. Build a wall around every city that decides to defund their police department and let them live with the criminal element that this will unleash. Keep them penned up with their wild animals. Since most of the people that will be in these cities are liberals this would solve a lot of problems.