A Summation Of Humanoid Existence

Honoring The War Dead: You sick murdering fucks! Shame on all of you. Name another species that wages war.Fuck you, Confederates! And Mexicans, Spaniards, & Der Kaiser.

My damned suffering: Woke up after eight hrs., mentally & physically exhausted, as usual. Then felt nauseous, so nauseous I thought I was going to vomit, but only dry-heaved. Sums up your all human existence, dunnit?Added fun: My rt. Achilles' tendon started hurting in the middle of the night, for no apparent reason. Hernia has started to hurt when on the thone straining. Croaker did say it would be trouble if it interferred w/ "pooping". C'mon Doc, you must be near 50, & I'm 70-fucking-two; "pooping"? Anyway, neither sounds nor feels good.

Wknd. Riot Report II

This sounds like a "police riot".

Police stormed the offices of Turkey’s main opposition CHP party on Sunday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at party supporters and officials who had been holed up inside for three days. It was a violent end to a standoff between members of the Republican Peoples’ Party, or CHP, and a leadership team appointed by an appeals court, escalating tensions between the opposition and the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Again, ANARCHY NOW!! Destroy the system!

Cream Of The Crop

In Humanizing The Vacuum's "Good to Great" section, these are the top three. Absolutely correct.Two Motowns & a Checker (W/ a great Don Bronstein cover.) Whence else at the time?

Surf Sunday

From this reporter's salad days.Two more I liked from HTV's list. The surfin' Trashmen are from ... Minnesota.

And to make it a Top 40 radio-style 'tween the adverts set of three under-three-mins. tunes, the Lawrence Welk version:

Dumpster Donnie

CBS firing Colbert reminds Envisioning the American Dream of something from the days of LBJ. It's always the same shit in garbage nation.Inspiration for the Cramps? Either way, a re-recording:And why can't I find the original on your crummy site, YouTube? It was easily available. Yet another reminder that everything is garbage. Searching for the original did lead to this:

There's A Riot Goin' On!

Clashes erupted between protesters and riot police after a massive anti-government rally in Belgrade on Saturday. Tens of thousands gathered against Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic. The rally was largely peaceful, but young demonstrators later clashed with police, throwing flares and rocks. (AP Video: Marko Drobnjakovic, production: Amer Cohadzic)

Fuck everything: Anarchy Now!!

More Music, More Often!

Hot Rod Music

Continued from ...

"A Foolish Consistency ...

... Is the Hobgoblin Of Little Minds"

TRUMP: "We have total control of the Strait of Hormuz"

TRUMP MOMENTS LATER: "We want the Strait of Hormuz open" pic.twitter.com/dWVybIV8CJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 21, 2026

Well then, someone has a GIANT mind, possibly swollen by disease. It just opens the yap & spews virtually anything, anytime.

This nation will not endure until early 2029, will it? May not even survive 'til the 250th Anniv. on The Fourth of July.

Lest We Forget

Rep. Norman: January 6th was an issue that was made up in the first place.

Reporter: Made up?

Norman: That was a staged thing from day one.

Reporter: The riot was staged? Your Republican colleagues barricaded themselves in their chamber. You think they were acting? pic.twitter.com/txEnKwNso9

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 21, 2026

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs. pic.twitter.com/R4YzWQTHcC

— Jake Justice (@jakecobb) May 20, 2026

Pardons & your money hell, nothing but DEATH TO THE SEDITIONISTS!!

Rob Base, Dead At 59

That sucks. I love this song. All-time bass line.Legal name, Robert Ginyard. Predeceased by his friend & musical associate since fifth grade, DJ E-Z Rock (Rodney "Skip" Bryce) in 2014. The Wiki sez both were born on 18 May 1967. America eats its young.[Variety]

Steve M. Captures The Zeitgeist

Steve watched J.B. & added:

But it's the cultural coverage that hints at the GOP's future when Trump is gone.

This coverage is all about aspects of American life that Republican base voters believe are their property: NASCAR, pro wrestling, the military, crimefighting. It envisions a world where cops are always good and crime is always lurking. Democrats are socialist, trans, and generally weird. Republicans are the guarantors of good old-fashioned normality.

As I said last month, Republicans in the post-Trump era could be like Republicans in 1988: a party trying to carry on in the absence of a twice-elected leader who is worshipped by the base. Before the George H.W. Bush campaign found the secret to defeating Mike Dukakis (racist scare ads about Black criminals), Bush played the GOP culture card. He talked about enjoying pork rinds. He campaigned with country music legend Loretta Lynn (who said of Dukakis, "Why, I can't even pronounce his name!"). He toured a flag factory (at a time when his campaign was floating rumors that Dukakis's wife, in her youth, had burned an American flag*).

Republicans don't really care about the needs of NASCAR fans who eat pork rinds. But it's effective branding, and it will keep the GOP going once Trump is gone.

They are indeed the shallowest people imaginable.Fuck them & the advertising agencies that prey on them!

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*This reporter burned a Yankee flag in his living room once, some 40 yrs, ago, possibly on or near the Fourth of July; some s.o.b. (Think he called hiself Zontar, Zondar, Zandar or something similar; does anyone remember who I mean?) actually tried to stop me, & then got hissy about it!

87 Today!

Friday Freak Out II

WWII Back In Blythe

"Halftracks firing at Desert Center"

U.S. Marines to Conduct Training Exercise in Blythe Starting Tuesday

U.S. Marines with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit will conduct a training exercise starting next week in Blythe to prepare for crises in urban environments.

"Crises in urban environments"? If you don't think they're going to fuck w/ voting in the cities, guess again, chumps.

Do your own research.

Blythe, earlier this wk.

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Friday Freak Out

Music Of My Youth

Via Humanizing The Vacuum, a ranking of Numbers Four on the Hit Parade from 1963 & '64, when I was first becoming a music afficanado. We'd acquired a new GE stereo(!) radio & amplifier in '62; for some reason my immediate female ancestor informed me she didn't want to hear any rock 'n' roll on said radio. Wave a flag in front of a bull, why don't you? Oppositionally Defiant I was listening to the rock 'n' roll radio w/in mins. No one tells me nothin', y'hear?! NOTHIN"!!

It was a more innocent time, meaning people were stupid, ignorant & foolish, & I wasn't yet aware how evil you people were (although the Civil Rights Movement was giving me an idea) & that I should have started killing as many of you bastards as I could have right then. Maybe I would have made a dent in the bestial stupidity of your scum species by now.

Anyway, here are three of the selected tunes, from my "Wonder Years"®.

Waiting For Juice

Bonus electric-powered Google robot.

I wish I could juice myself up. I'm about half a level above catatonic, & could barely rouse myself to make it the few blocks to the supermarket & back.

"Fighting Communism" W/ Imperialism

Have some context. Or is it propganda?

Gun News

I hope Cuba is doing this too.Others defending themselves:

According to LADWP, the employees were attempting to perform a scheduled water shutoff when the incident occurred. The workers, who were unharmed, moved to a safe location and contacted LADWP Security and the Los Angeles Police Department.

Dunno what a "scheduled" water shutoff is, but if the DWP employees were trying to cut off the water, what the hell's he or she supposed to do? And what did the heat do to the irate property owner/renter? Inquiring minds want to know, mynewsLA.com!

Another Real Threat

I am so fucking tired of being lied to & cheated every instant of my existence in this world of shit, pain & lying cheats you fucking imbeciles have made for yourselves. What is wrong w/ all of you? Why are you all such cheating liars?

That's Yankee Dabbler, by the way. Fuck them to the theological place of eternal damnation for all eternity.

Dog Bites Man!

Is this sort of thing even "news" anymore? No one can possibly be surprised, 'though some may be disgusted & revolted. Xians, apparently, think it's how things should be. Father knows best!

Shannon Butler / WFTV:
Former ‘gay cure’ ministry leader Alan Chambers charged in underage sex sting
Bob Smietana / RNS:   Alan Chambers, former Exodus International leader, charged with soliciting minor
Quispe López / Advocate:   Former leader of ‘ex-gay’ Christian ministry arrested for soliciting sex from a minor

Can't even "cure" himself, if he does realize he's doing something more awful than the "sins" he thinks "the gays" are committing.

At least Gary Puckett tried to keep it in his pants.

Truly A Paper Tiger

By gucciminh.

The term was frequently used in Chinese Internet discourse regarding the trade war begun by United States President Donald Trump. Internet users referred to Trump as a "paper tiger", frequently observing that the United States economy depends heavily on Chinese companies for a host of necessities, electronics, and raw components.

They have him pegged.

A "quick one" from Krugman.

When the leaders of the world’s two most powerful nations met in Beijing, Chinese Premier Xi Jinping spoke about the lessons of history:

Can China and the United States transcend the so-called ‘Thucydides Trap’ and forge a new paradigm for major-power relations?”

Donald Trump, on the other hand, spoke about fast food

Just as many Chinese now love basketball and blue jeans, Chinese restaurants in America today outnumber the five largest fast food chains in the United States, all combined. That’s a pretty big statement.

I’m old enough to remember when we were a serious country.

So am I. I believe the exact phrase is "Serious as cancer".

"Basketball and blue jeans" is yet another demonstration of how shallow he is. How do already overpaid sportsball weasels getting Chinese endorsement money help any other Americans but billionaire team owners? "Blue" jeans, what is he, his grandfather? Aren't "blue jeans" made in Vietnam or Central America? The Chinese restaurant bit is obvious bullshit & means less than nothing. Mencken's "The White House will be adorned by a downright moron" is completely correct, innit?

If the "gift link" doesn't work, digby excerpted much of it.

70 Yrs. Ago Today In Railroading History

Image by O. Winston Link. ©East Bumfuck Historical Society Collection. Used w/o permission.

A.T.S.F. Locomotive 2342 & Caboose 1353 pass the bean elevators at East Bumfuck, 19 May 1956.

More Fearmongering

The proverbial chickens may be coming home to roost atop what remains of The White House.Hah! Good luck getting Congress to address anything.

Had little prior interest, but now I can't wait for the World Cup! Hey, is that blood?

Some Quality Kvetching

From 2016. He's certainly fixed all the problems on his list, hasn't he?

As a general rule, there’s value in trying to understand why those we disagree with think as they do. But there’s no reason to allow such sentiments to obscure or confuse what we are living through. The GOP has been trending this way for a long time. In 2012, Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein wrote:

“The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”

Mann and Ornstein correctly identified what had been the longtime drift of the GOP by that time, and felt it necessary to say so, especially in the face of a media environment that remained wedded to a “both sides” frame that muddied that reality. Led by Trump, especially in his second term, the GOP has reached the end point of that long arc, leavened by a depth of fraud, ignorance and spite that has made even veterans of that earlier era of GOP politics blanch.

End of a party, end of the Empire ...

When will these shitheels die so I can start pissing on their graves?

[Jonathan’s Quality Kvetching Newsletter, via Hackwhackers. Part of Mann/Ornstein.]