"Look! The dog can tell you're sick, she's trying to comfort you!" No, the dog can sense that my 105 degree fever has turned me into a comfy human heating pad.
The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.
Ignore the rule of law. Manipulate the language. Intimidate the press. Rid the government of all possible opposition. Stock it with incompetent supplicants. Make the military your personal guard. Repress cultural expression. Embrace white supremacy and fellow dictators. It happened here.
No single person did more to end democracy and roll back civil rights in America than this white supremacist right here. Now and forever, that is how he should be remembered—the 21st century white supremacist who returned the United States to Jim Crow America.
Does Superman also have a super sense of direction? Does he study a lot of aerial maps? Because I bet if you were flying over the earth at supersonic speeds you’d get lost all the time.
My influences are the first 2 pages of that Mickey Baker book, a bunch of half-remembered Hendrix and country riffs, and that Cars song I learned for my high school talent show.
Every Super Bowl commercial was like a bad AI acid trip. “What if our ad was a goat driving a motorcycle but the goat has Kanye’s face and he’s eating Dunkin Donuts and his tongue gets caught in the chain and then a bee comes out and tells everyone to go potty and then…”
If you are taking care of a parent, or struggling with the decision to put them in a home, remember you could have had a paid worker come to their house to help take care of them, but Kamala Harris laughed funny, so now their Medicare is about to get frozen.
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
There’s no better record for this moment than Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) by David Bowie:
“So where's the moral
When people have their fingers broken
To be insulted by these fascists
It's so degrading
And it's no game”
Joe Biden didn’t “step aside,” he was finally forced out. Keep that in mind as Pelosi and Schumer hobble into Congress on walkers. Boomer stubbornness led to Trump. They’re burning the planet to the ground on their way out.
🎶 It’s a world of violence
A world of fear
It’s a world of hatred
And Trump’s still here
There’s so much we could share
But we won’t, we don’t care!
It’s a small world after all! 🎵
I’m 56 years old.
57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016.
These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits.
The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.
You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million.
That is a lie.
The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.
Today marks 20 yrs. since my last cigarette. Thanks to Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking and to Roger Taylor, the drummer for Duran Duran, for giving me the book!
Costco responded to shareholders requesting that it withdraw from DEI policies. The response was direct and to the point: Costco says, "Our board has considered this proposal and believes that our commitment to an enterprise rooted in respect & inclusion is appropriate & necessary."
❤️COSTCO♥️