Chickenshit Nation

Lemme tell ya: Had I been selected for the Trump jury pool, I'd have done my best to get close enough to Trump to spit on him, certainly would've been giving him the finger from the moment I entered the courtroom, would've said from the stand that I thought he should be locked up & the key thrown away, & advised the judge I held him in absolute & utter contempt for being a candy-ass who should've jailed Trump for contempt long ago. Yet all the sheep meekly shuffle into & out of the courtroom w/o a bleat. Not even a fraud, merely a pathetic joke.

Don't Pay Taxes, Chumps!!

Resist for once in your empty meaningless lives, you beaten animals. The blood of millions is on your tax-paying hands.

Today's Post-Rain Clouds, Today!

Friday The Thirteenth Day Late & A Dollar Short

Friday Grab N Flee

Inbred State

Is cousin-fucking the most popular pornography genre in Tenn.?

Daniel Smithson / WSMV-TV:

Bill to make marrying your first cousin illegal in Tennessee passes but not without a fight  —  Two Republican lawmakers voted against making marriage between first cousins illegal in Tennessee.  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Tennessee House passed a bill on Thursday that would make it illegal …

Ron Filipkowski / MeidasTouch:   TN Rep Wants 1st Cousins to Legally Marry

Brad Reed / Raw Story:   Tennessee Republican's fight against cousin marriage ban ends in massive defeat

Ghost Plane

Trees

Skyline W/ Palms

What an inane, stupid cliché. Is there nothing new, interesting or original?*

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*No. No, there is not. It's all been done. Everything has been used up & played out. The human experiment is over.
So long, suckers!

Any Day Now

Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:

Many Americans who recently bought guns open to political violence, survey finds  —  Study of 13,000 Americans finds particular risk among certain types of gun owners, including those who carry weapons in public  —  Large numbers of Americans who have bought guns over the past four years …

Carl Gibson / Alternet.org:   ‘Arming up for anticipated civil conflict’: Study says gun buyers prone to ‘political violence’

Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.:   Poll: 44% Of Recent Gun Buyers Back Political Violence

Jennifer Mascia / The Trace:   The Armed Era  —  You drop your child off at kindergarten where they learn how to hide from an active shooter.

Why else would one buy a gun? The best defense is a good offense, & your civilized human world of guns is no different than the natural world of tooth, claw & venom: It's kill or be killed.

Outside World

Went walking in sunlight. Allegedly good for one's health. Did it until my hip started to hurt. How is that healthy?

No improvement in mental health either, as I am still confronted w/ humanity & its incessant bullshit. (DOES. IT. EVER. STOP?) 

If I were you people, I'd kill myself. Twice. Violently.

Hammerin' Hank Enters History

Fifty yrs. ago this reporter was seated on a couch at 8497 Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood, ten yrs. before it was a city, watching on a 12-inch portable black & white telebision set. No memory of which over-the-air channel Dodger games were on at the time. 

Am I better off than I was fifty yrs. ago?

Local coverage from WSB.

Eff You, Celestial Mechanics

I got up before 1100 on a Monday for this?

I was hoping to see at least a sliver of the sun obliterated, but no.

Staring

Slightly better audio.

Toally Confuzzled

For some reason, the cover photo for the MC5's Back In The USA

was slapped on this pseudo-album cover, apparently a reissue/bootleg of this.From a benefit show broadcast on ABC TV's In Concert. You might notice that it's not GFR at all, but their "Special Guest" Freddie King & his band. (Thought it was an excellent cover of "Going Down".)Also by Mr. King & band:Grand Funk, 'though also from Michigan, were a power trio ('til they added a keyboard player) not a five-piece.

$29.97 Worth Of Tiny Trees ...

... On A $7.99 Lawn

Glad the U.S. helped the Vietnamese in their civil war (at the cost of 58,000+ Yankee lives & X billion dollars) so that 50 yrs. later they can sell plastic crap to American hobbyists. This reporter is ashamed to live in such a cretinous country.

Sunday Sucks

Up earlier than usual to watch the Dodgers game, which is now in a weather delay. Why the hell do I bother, ever?

Another picture of yet another fucking palm tree, so you may understand the sheer dullness.
Mind-numbing, innit?

Smoke Signals From Inside The Earth

Advisory: For no apparent reason, gawdawful piano music starts at (0:52).

Not As Ominous, But Imposing

Also Ominous

If not absolutely evil.