Día De Los Muertos

Pouring one out for all the sisters & brothers who are no longer here.

Here Come The Holidays!

Hallowe'en my ass. Egg nog has been in the dairy cases for three wks. or so. And the end of sensible time Sunday a.m.

Interesting, If Not Good News

Status: “According to Nielsen ratings obtained by Status in advance of their release, October 2026 will be Fox News’ lowest-rated month since December 2023, with the network averaging 1.1 million total day viewers. Among viewers in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 demographic, the picture is even worse. Fox News will post its lowest-rated month in that category in 25 years, averaging just 98,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo.”

”Those figures represent a steep 27% drop compared to last October in total viewers, and a 32% plunge in the 25-54 demo…”

”The Fox News ratings indicate that conservatives are tuning out ahead of the high-stakes elections. While television ratings are not a scientific measure of voter enthusiasm, the eye-popping decline in Fox News’ audience should be a flashing warning sign for Trump and his Republican allies as voters prepare to head to the polls. In comparison to Fox News, the progressive MS NOW is averaging 588,000 total day viewers, a 16% spike compared to last year, suggesting enthusiasm has shifted to the Democratic side of the aisle.”

Stolen in its entirety from Political Wire, as Status wants your e-mail in return for reading. Shove it up your ass, Status, you greedy pigs. I don't need more fucking bullshit infesting my inboxes. Or my telebison.

Let's Have A War Department

These posing idiots are so ignorant. It's War Department, not "Department of War". See?

So these United Snakes are now officially an "aggressor nation"? Like the "Circle Trigon Party"?

Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Pentagon presses Congress to keep measure changing name to ‘Department of War’
Sean Parnell / Fox News:   Trump restored the Department of War. Now it's up to Congress to finish the job

Lorrie Posobiec / Human Events:   Pentagon's FORTRESS plan will ensure military bases can survive 90 days with no resupply

Uh-huh. 90 days alright, until the first attack that destroys a supply dump. They're like eight-yr. olds; no connection to reality at all, just making up "cool" stuff w/ tough-sounding names. As if no swarthy furriners could keep a siege going over 90 days. Hell, the idea of Yankee "FORTRESSES" in the Mid-East puts this reporter in mind of Crusader castles. And it'll be a huge waste of your taxpayer dollars.

Basketball News & Notes

High-scoring games.

Best of luck to all the teams.

No Joy In Mudville

Perhaps not the wisest bobblehead?

Swept? A fucking sweep? Not seven games of hard-fought ball? Well, just like this reporter, they are old & tired. Maybe a bit o' hubris involved as well, talking "three-peat" so much.

OOOOOH. Maybe the Dodgers shouldn’t have visited the White House LOLOL. Here’s me celebrating.

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— Allison Gill (@muellershewrote.com) October 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM

I hope the Guardians beat the Devil Rays & provide an all-Midwest series that no one will care about except the residents of Wisconsin & half of Ohio, & Fox Sports loses big.

Perhaps this abomination will be balanced by a Democratic sweep next month.

La Nouvelle Deux Chevaux

Citroën hasn't made one since its 42-yr. run ended in 1990. This new model is electric & perhaps £12,000, or €15,000.

Not until 2028, however.The original model, little changed over its existence.

Would you like to know even more?

America's Funniest Painter

Might be worth a Netflix subscription. $8.99, cancel anytime. "... Our most affordable, ad-supported plan". Even if one cancels immediately after watching, do the greedy bastards keep one's initial $8.99? Is there enough for a month's watching? Nope, looks like 14 yrs. of crap in which I've no interest.

From PowerPop.

Tuesday Tombstone

Sunday Amazon Finger

I despise you all 24/7; why should I wait until Friday to express my horror & disgust? And I needn't add anything to the message; it's so simple & true even you brain-dead sheep get it.

It's an Amazon finger, so a tribute to Jeff Bezos. ++Fuck him!!

Sad-Ass Sat.

When America was great, damit!! Nostalgic re-runs, if any of these have been run before, from the hard-drive.

Note the church steeple dominating the town.

And transgenderism is socialist, as droning idiot J.D. Vance just told us. Bonus track:

Friday Freak Out

And tab-clearing.

Jeff Simmons, a Real Mother.People I know:

Inscrutable, dense, manic, bizarre, intense, aloof, schizophrenic,” once wrote Option Magazine. The Wild Stares, formed in Boston in 1979 by Justin Burrill and Steve Gregororpoulos, joined by Fran Miller Campbell toured Europe and the U.S. several times, releasing many recordings along the way and relocated to L.A in 1988 adding drummer Kyle C. Kyle before morphing into W.A.C.O. in 1993.

Accurate description.

There will always be an England: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

Thursday Tab-Clearing

Advertising Analysis W/ Connie Clausen

This commercial is in my "Non-Sequitor" bookmarks, so I was amused to see this:

Analyzing the Persuasive Elements of a 1961 Coca-Cola Commercial

Ms. Clausen, by the way, had better things to do than be a "low-level actress".

Good Deal On Reefers!

Ha ha. Not that kind of reefers, ninnies.

Must admit I've not had a bad experience w/ ebay yet.

Certainly detailed enough for my purposes, which are quantity over quality.

(Now I've screwed myself. Next time won't work out.) Not that I spend big money or buy anything that isn't 20-40 yrs. old. Note the revision date on this; 03-06.

When Athern wasn't a corporate entity in Illinois.

The price tag on one box was dated 4/5/2008.

Idle Thoughts I Barely Care About

Surely None Of You Will

Positive development: My primary care physician apparently over-diagnosed the thing on the bottom of my foot. Went all the way to Westwood to see a podiatrist, who said it was a mere callus, not the plantar wart (caused by a strain of HPV virus) the M.D. thought it was. He applied cryotherapy twice, the podiatrist simply shaved it right off. No pain, then or now.

Other non-negative note: Rec'd. both pension & Social Security today, & still had US$505.87 in the credit union & a twenty in my pants. Guess I can afford several turnouts at $30.00 each now.

Completely negative: Watching baseball on Peacock, & its few advertisers. Does NBCUniversal no longer have a sales staff? I'm more than ready for TikTok to be banned worldwide & all involved to be imprisoned if I see that effing advert once more. What a crock.If they can't get more than five or six sponsors, could the sponsors make a couple more commercials so we needn't see the same damn ones approximately 50+ times per game? Nor am I interested in any Peacock streaming series, let alone seeing the same promos over & over & over & over. And yes, we understand very well that "This copyrighted broadcast is presented by the authority of the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball. It may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form, and the accounts and descriptions of this game may not be disseminated without express written consent." Most broadcasts only recite that once. I'm wearing out the mute button.

Good to see the Pale Hose beat the Houston Cheat-os. The South Siders might be fun in a Series w/ L.A.'s former Bums of Brooklyn. And maybe next yr. the Cubs & Sox can face off in the Series.

The Heights Of Racist Absurdity

I do have better & more important things to do than re-post inane Nazi horseshit from the iNternet & make threats that idiots will call the police about (8647!) but something like this is so illustrative of how damnably stupid & hateful the wrong-wing of American politics is; how can I resist? I mean, the yout' really are all lazy sods, aren't they?

Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:

Right-Wingers Are Mad Anti-Welfare Ad Isn't Racist Enough  —  Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been attacked by her own party for depicting a lazy white guy named “Brad” in an ad about fraud  —  No racist Republican trope has survived the test of time quite like that of the “welfare queen.”

Lauren Green / Washington Examiner:   Huckabee Sanders slammed for ad featuring white man on welfare

The Post Millennial:   Sarah Huckabee Sanders skewered for ad making white man the face of welfare fraud in Arkansas

Mary Rooke / The Daily Caller:   New Republican Midterm Ad Betrays GOP's Critical Voting Bloc

Sean James / Mediaite:   Conservatives Skewer Sarah Huckabee Sanders Ad Depicting Young White Man as ‘Welfare Queen’

They certainly like the word "skewer".

The WashEx notes:

However, the portrayal of Brad was met with swift condemnation on social media by many conservative voices, who noted that white men are among the Republican Party’s most loyal voters.

“This is a massive own goal, @SarahHuckabee, and you should fire the consultants who made this ad,” Senior Counsel Internet Accountability Project Will Chamberlain wrote on X. “Do not portray your core voting bloc as losers, period.”

“Years ago, Democrats abandoned young white men and turned them into enemies for political purposes,” wrote Jake Bequette, a former NFL player and 2022 Senate candidate in Arkansas. “It was only a matter of time until Republicans explicitly did the same. That time is now. The crown is in the gutter for anyone who unapologetically fights for young white men.”

Speaking of losers, J.B. couldn't make it out of the '22 Republican primary. Poor widdle white boys, so abused. The DC:

Consultants have a stock slacker, and for a decade, that slacker has been a white male. They’re the butt of every sitcom joke, portrayed as an idiot in commercials; they are the cautionary tale in political ads. Meanwhile, every other demographic is the hero or victim of the white male slacker. The ultimate insult of Sanders’s ad is that the GOP is perpetuating this insanity.

Oh, my heart pumps piss for these whining weenies. Break out the tiny violin.

Angels Season Over, Chargers Lose Again, Dodgers Win 100th In 10 [UP-DATED]

Looks as if the Angels, Chargers & Clippers will all suck for the foreseeable future. How are the Raiders doing?
3-0 is how. Pick a winner!

Baseball, however, looks to be sucking up to a loser. Good rant from Nancy Nall: What is this crap, Commissioner Manfred?

UP-DATE, 28 Sep.: Lest we forget, the University of Spoiled Children's Trojans also lost, whipped 41-27. Factoid: the Angels won 62 & lost 100, the mirror image of the Dodgers' record.

Vote For The Candidate That The Thug Union Opposes

Ted Rall & the LAPD.

LAPD Union Releases Attack Ad Against Nithya Raman’s Campaign

Who asked the dumb bastards for their opinion, & who in hell cares?

Burning Sage Saturday

One classic & a tolerably stupid Todd Rundgren production, recently & often heard over & over & over in truncated &/or covered forms in adverts on the telly.NB: Hank Snow (The Singing Ranger) is Canadian, b. 1914 in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia. He penned both the above classic* & "I'm Movin' On", which were enough for a lifetime career. Go Canada!!Still don't get it. Are ancient tunes less expensive, or are ad agency music directors admitting that today's music sucks may not even be up to yesterday's drivel?

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*Originally from an Australian number. Hank changed the locations.

Republicans Should Keep Lying, But Even Harder, Sez Republican

These deluded buffoons live in a sad fantasy world.

Lies? As Long As They "Resonate", It's Fine

Axios:
House GOP's top messenger: Socialism attack line “doesn't really resonate”  —  House Republicans' top messenger has three pieces of advice for candidates trying to survive the midterms: Call Democrats “communists,” don't gaslight voters on inflation — and trust your district if it tells you to deviate from President Trump.

Washington Post:
Why Democrats are starting to feel bullish about a midterm wave
Luke Fountain / CNBC:   Trump's $403 million war chest is finally being spent on the midterms. Now comes the hard part

NPR:   Republican ‘cavalry’ arrives with a Trump-backed $150 million ad blitz in key races

Mike Catalini / Los Angeles Times:   Trump pushes his $5,000 ‘dividend’ pledge if GOP wins midterms. Republican candidates, not as much

Republican racist (Redundant?) Bo French has retrieved "Bolshevik" from the dustbin of history.

French has begun to direct his venom Rosenthal’s way. Texas Monthly’s Robert Downen, the foremost chronicler of French’s rise and the Texas far-right, recently reported on a fundraising email from the campaign that accused Rosenthal, who is Jewish, of “mocking Christianity” and compared him to the Bolsheviks who killed Russia’s ruling Romanov family—a trope with a deep antisemitic history.

"Commie Jew Comm-u-niss!"