October 27, 2020

"They all hate us anyhow..."

Given control of said body, anyone still think making new Senate cloture rules in January is a bad idea?

October 26, 2020

If you have the time...this is about us as much as it is Britain...and this election.

Michael Oswald's film The Spider's Web reveals how at the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players in the world of international finance.

October 20, 2020

Goodbye Sadness...gonna vote tomorrow

Got punched in the face ejecting a tweaker that wouldn't wear a mask at my store last night. Need to find my center before going back to work day after tomorrow. Gonna vote. Edit* Did vote today...

October 16, 2020

Local Weekly: I Need You...Vote to Save America (Image)

Cover of local free weekly magazine/voting guide put out by the publisher of the Las Vegas Sun

Bravo.

October 13, 2020

Nevada Republicans Hoist by Their Own Petard? or Two Can Play That Way

Nevada Democratic Party seeking super-majority in state government this cycle. It's been a struggle but Nevada looks to overcome the Republican's de facto stranglehold on the state budget. Some years ago the Republicans used a super-majority to enact a 'no new taxes without two-thirds approval' amendment to the state constitution. Democratic officials have attempted several times over the years to void the measure in court but have failed. Now they seek to eliminate the requirement with the same tool used by the Republicans...a super-majority.

read more at https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2020/10/12/prospect-of-democratic-supermajority-looms-over-state-senate-races/

October 6, 2020

An October Vaccine...who could have ever predicted this?

I think it a most fitting last hurrah for the militant GOP from the most shameless snake-oil salesman ever to occupy the Oval Office. It fulfills every expectation of moral depravity I had for this administration from the very beginning.

September 20, 2020

Trump trashes Howard Zinn, calls for white-washed school curriculum

for full story read more at https://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/18/howard_zinn_us_history

September 14, 2020

Today I begin a week-long break ...my first since the pandemic began

I work in an essential* industry. I'm sixty years old. I have over a thousand people in my face every day and they're getting crankier and crankier as things go from bad to worse. I had to eject five people from my store on Saturday night alone...three physical assaults by drunks refusing to wear masks this week. At least I've got a job, unlike many. I'm really, really tired and need a recharge my friends. For now, this is how I feel so I'll vent...

Video shot by Jim Jarmusch



When I'm lyin' in my bed at night

I don't wanna grow up

Nothin' ever seems to turn out right

I don't wanna grow up

How do you move in a world of fog

That's always changing things

Makes me wish that I could be a dog

When I see the price that you pay

I don't wanna grow up

I don't ever wanna be that way

I don't wanna grow up



Seems like folks turn into things

That they'd never want

The only thing to live for

Is today

I'm gonna put a hole in my TV set

I don't wanna grow up

Open up the medicine chest

And I don't wanna grow up

I don't wnna have to shout it out

I don't want my hair to fall out

I don't wanna be filled with doubt

I don't wanna be a good boy scout

I don't wanna have to learn to count

I don't wanna have the biggest amount

I don't wanna grow up



Well when I see my parents fight

I don't wanna grow up

They all go out and drinking all night

And I don't wanna grow up

I'd rather stay here in my room

Nothin' out there but sad and gloom

I don't wanna live in a big old Tomb

On Grand Street



When I see the 5 o'clock news

I don't wanna grow up

Comb their hair and shine their shoes

I don't wanna grow up

Stay around in my old hometown

I don't wanna put no money down

I don't wanna get me a big old loan

Work them fingers to the bone

I don't wanna float a broom

Fall in and get married then boom

How the hell did I get here so soon

I don't wanna grow up



*If you consider beer, cigarettes and gummy bears to be essential.

August 13, 2020

For your viewing pleasure - Tom Waits, relevant as ever

August 5, 2020

Just because Tom is Tom