Fireworks
Happy 4th from S&R.
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Big Rock Candy Mountain
From Let Them Eat Cake, it’s Neo-Feudal Society!
Read moreTrump’s GOP: the Family Feud party
Welcome to the GOP Family Feud, where there’s no answer so bad it won’t elicit enthusiastic, unanimous support. Ever watch Family Feud? It seems like this moment happens in every show. The question is something like “name a popular item of men’s clothing.” Turtle, the patriarch of the Gopfluffer family, hits the button and guesses “shirt.” [BING] That’s the #1
Read moreHere comes the sun: Summer Solstice 2018
Happy Solstice from the staff of Scholars & Rogues…
Read moreThe green man
Vintage doll…
Read moreESPN: All Tiger, all the time
Oh, look. It’s US Open week. Let the fluffing begin. And away we go. Today the top story is that Tiger won the tournament a long time ago. If Tiger wins this week, that will be the top story. If he finishes 30th, the story will be that he’s the reason the winner won. If we nuke Canada, the story
Read moreRosaceae: ghost blue
Abstract rose…
Read moreFun with headlines: the case of the dancing, backflipping, accidentally discharging FBI agent
Wanted: copy desk editor. No experience required. By now you’ve probably seen the story. An off-duty FBI agent was dancing – and I use that term in its loosest possible sense – at a club up in RiNo (that’s the River North district in Denver for you non-5280ers). He tried a backflip. He failed. His gun fell out. He tried
Read moreGolf Report: Old white guy calls 911 because black women aren’t playing fast enough
Coulda asked to play through. Just saying. Did you see this bullshit? Man who called police on black golfers: No weapons involved “other than her mouth” YORK, Pa. — A man who called police on a group of black women golfers accused of playing too slowly at a Pennsylvania golf club denied to dispatchers that he was acting out of
Read moreAfter the show
Vintage miniature: Hobo clown…
Read moreMemorial Day 2018: remembering the fallen vs celebrating war
The business of America is war. I hate this fucking holiday. It’s proper to honor those who died in service to the country. But with each passing year it feels less honest. For too many among us, what’s really being celebrated is war itself. We’re arguably the greatest warmongering menace in the history of the world and it has been
Read moreDid OKC shooting prove “good guy with a gun” theory? On the contrary…
I’m glad no innocent people died. But the incident comes closer to proving the NRA wrong than right. Two armed citizens kill shooter who opened fire in Oklahoma restaurant Let’s all be glad no innocent people were killed. Period. Let’s also attend closely to the facts before the NRA arrives claiming that good guys with guns, or whatever. Two points
Read moreMaybe it’s Trump who should consider leaving. Now, while he still can.
Feckless Leader is at it again, this time saying NFL players protesting the rampant murder of citizens in the streets by police maybe “shouldn’t be in the country.” Because love it or leave it, you uppity niggers. Let me offer an alternate opinion, Herr Drumpf.
Read moreNFL national anthem policy: institutionalized racism strikes back?
I have smart, strongly progressive friends who don’t see the national anthem issue the way I do. Here’s an exchange between one of my closest friends and me on the subject, with some discussion about pragmatism and idealism… Yesterday, in the wake of the newly announced NFL policy on the national anthem, I posted this to Facebook: Okay, I need
Read moreAdmit it – you think chicken tastes like cardboard
Say this next time you’re served chicken against your will… I grew up in the South, where chicken, in its many forms, was a staple of the diet. Fried chicken, of course. Chicken and dumplings. Chicken (kill me now) casserole. Baked chicken. Barbecue chicken. Chicken and waffles. Chicken pot pie. Chicken stew. Chicken noodle soup. And of course, chicken necks,
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lullaby pit 