When I hear Republican panderers talking about their "personal relationship with Jesus", it's as chilling as hearing a terrorist yell: "Allah hu Ahkbar"!

All the repug canidates were at the Prestonwood Baptist Forum, sucking up to racist, delusional bible-thumpers.

This is actually UN-American.  The founding fathers were mostly atheists, agnostics, and deists, and VERY wary of organized religion.  The 1st Amendment was intended to PREVENT an establishment of any religion, including christianity.

 All this "god" talk, and having "in god we trust" printed on our money (something instituted under the Eisenhower administration, when "under god" was inserted into to the Pledge of Allegiance), is another indication of how Corporations have used their gullible minions to enslave our national interest.

Dude, the lady doesn't need "female viagra"

So the FDA has just approved "female viagra".
It has some scary side effects, especially when mixed with alcohol (how most women wind up in bed with a guy, most of the time). In controlled double-blind studies of a thousand women, those taking the actual pill reported a 6% higher rate of having had an "enjoyable" sexual experience with their partner, in the previous month.

Dude, the lady doesn't need a pill, you need to learn to be a better lover.

People working for minimum wage are paying to defend the vacation homes of the rich from "natural" disasters

30,000 firefighters are battling unprecedented wildfires in the West: from California to Alaska, caused by Global Warming.  Most of the houses, built in harm's way, are owned by wealthy people, who tend to vote Republican.  The Federal gov't: ie: you and me, are paying to defend their homes.  This is the kind of welfare that repugs believe in.

When they put up vacation homes in places where they don't belong, because they can afford to--because of repug tax cuts to the rich, and they get destroyed--it pushes up everyone's insurance rates.  More welfare to the rich.

Donald Trump is just just another Il Duce [bag]

The person Trump reminds me most of is Mussolini.  Like Il Duce [bag] Trump thinks he's so smart and that anything he doesn't like will just disappear.  It's hilarious that all the tea-baggers, who have always accused Obama of being a dictator, are putting Trump at the top of the polls.  It just shows how naive, un-informed, paranoid bigots can lead a country to fascism.

The question no one is asking in the Trump/McCain kerfuffle:

The sphincter-faced asshole who is #1 in the polls among repugs said "McCain was not a hero."  Five years in a tiger-cage is pretty f**king terrible, and to survive that without being completely broken is heroic.

Now, the question is:  "What was McCain doing when he was shot down?"  Was he dropping bombs on civilians, was he immolating children in napalm?  That IS a legitimate question, that no one is asking.

The NRA armed a known terrorist in Garland, TX

You don't kick a hornet's nest.  You don't tease a mean dog.

The provocateurs in Garland Texas set out to offend Muslims, and succeeded.  Two guys with assault rifles showed up.  A lot of "innocent" people could have been killed.  Two fools are dead.  The offensive contest to draw a picture of Mohammed is seen as protected by the 1st Amendment.  As I understood it: freedom of speech does not include falsely crying "fire" in a crowded theatre.  If you're likely to get people killed, it's not protected speech.

Beyond that, there is the question of how a guy who had been on a terrorist watch list since 2006 was able to buy an AR-15.  How?  Thank the NRA and the Republicans, and the Democrats who know that any kind of reasonable gun regulation will get them slammed by the gun lobby.

"City On the Edge of Forever", by Harlan Ellison, best STAR TREK episode ever!

"City On the Edge of Forever" gets my vote as the BEST episode of Star Trek.  It was written by accomplished sci-fi author Harlan Ellison (You didn't see Isaac Asimov or Arthur C. Clarke writing screenplays for TV.)  It is also a tribute to his perseverance against network morons: they didn't like the ending and objected to Kirk's final line: "Let's get the Hell outta here!"

It ran last night on ME TV, channel 23 on Time Warner.  Interestingly, one scene was cut:  When McCoy arrives, and encounters the vagrant who's stealing a quart of milk, and later passes out, the hobo steals a phaser from McCoy's belt, and, in the process of investigating it, vaporizes himself.  I wonder why they cut that?

A tale of two war stories.

Brian Williams went on David Letterman and exaggerated about exactly whose helicopter got hit. Bile O'Really goes on FAUX News every night and tells all kinds of lies, including one about his "heroic" actions in the Falklands. Williams is gone, O'Reilly gets to continue lying, because lying passes for News on Fox.

Tips on enjoying Wasabi safely!

I love Wasabi anything!  The chemical that produces the hotness: isothiocyanate, is also guilt free!  Unlike the capsaicin found in hot peppers, this volatile compound breaks down in the gut, so it doesn't burn you twice!  Here are some tips to enjoy Wasabi safely:

1):  Only handle it with your non-dominant hand (not the hand that might be touching sensitive mucous membranes anytime in the next 24 hours).

2): While chewing, inhale through your nose and out through your mouth.  This will prevent the excruciating sinus burn that can easily make one cry, and ruin the pleasure of eating Wasabi!

Aluminum handles on Chinese take-out useful around the home and garden!

The wire handles on Chinese take-out containers are actually aluminum, and very pliable.  Pull them out and you can use them as handy, heavy-duty ties, for the garden, etc.  If you're doing demolition and putting debris in the 6 mil "contractor" bags, these are the ideal tie!

"Berserk" is exhibit "A" in confirming the veracity of "Mommie Dearest", Joan Crawford hangs herself!

If you've ever seen "Mommie Dearest" you need to see "Berserk", Joan Crawford's attempt at a comeback. It is totally MST 3000 material! It was funded and partially written by Joan, and is so frigging freudian! It's not really a spoiler to tell you that the psycho killer is the Crawford character's deranged psychopathic daughter, played by Judy Geeson. In the climactic scene she rushes at JOan with a knife: "I have to destroy you because you're successful!" The continuity is SO BAD that no one working on the script bothered to point out that the Geeson character doesn't even appear at the Circus (after being expelled from boarding school, where the saintly Joan put her to protect her from the rude and crude circus world) until half a dozen murders have already happened! Another hoot is when the hunk tightrope walker kicks Diana Dors out of his trailer cuz his passion is only for Joan!

John Fogerty should be able to own the songs he wrote for CCR!!!

John Fogerty got screwed by a manager, and by the courts.  All of his Creedence Clearwater Songs were stolen.  He even got sued for "royalties" for playing HIS OWN MUSIC!  And of course some mean old judge sided with the manager: "You signed the form."  Right, some unsophisticated kid got swindled by a con man.  JF should own the songs he wrote, period!  There is the law as written, and then the spirit of the law.  Mean old men, like Thomas, Roberts, Scalia and Alito, say, "There is no 'right to privacy' written into the constitution."  and, therefore, women can't control their own bodies.  Of course, when it comes to the 2nd Amendment explicitly tying gun ownership to participating in a State-sanctioned militia they flip-flop, which is all a mean bitter old man can do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cyZvqetODY

"Don't You Wish it Was True"