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Salitieri, Poore, Nash, De Brutus & Short Law Firm
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World’s slowest novel writing. Pioneered the “leftist post-apocalypse” genre. Particular to politics served with a wry chaser. @[email protected]
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Has he ever seen Pistol Pete’s Nazi ink?!
Shirtless Pete Hegseth displaying alt-right significant tattoos…
December 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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So much went wrong…on purpose!
Reagan in cowboy costume holding a six-shooter. The Fascist Gun in the West Later in 1970, Roger Freeman - a key educational adviser to Nixon then working for the reelection of California governor Ronald Rea-gan-spelled out quite precisely what the conservative counterattack was aimed at preventing: "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education. If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people."30 The two most menacing institutional sources of the danger described by Freeman were obviously those two great public university systems charging no tuition: the University of California and the City University of New York. Governor Reagan was able to wipe out free tuition at the University of California Why are Soc. Security benefits taxed? Ronald Reagan first taxed them in his 1983 Amendments to the Social Security Act. It's one of 11 tax increases he imposed on the working class after giving a massive tax cut to the rich
December 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Still from “Oppenheimer.” Cillian Murphy holds a lit cigarette as he stares wide-eyed at the camera…
November 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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"The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth. There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
October 30, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I’m no seer, but some long-term tangents always seemed pretty obvious. I wrote these passages for a work of fiction almost 45 years ago…
America had gone through the nauseating convulsions of a national election, and the self-renewing processes of democracy produced yet another soon to be scapegoat for everything that was not right in the land. A former producer of television shows, the new President knew how to cater to the people’s need for variety in their lives. Spicing his campaign speeches with bizarre paradoxes and half-truths such as "Hard work in this country is nowadays subject more to punishment than reward," "Americans have become too inward-looking to find meaning in that lives," and "Efforts to change the nation's ills have only perpetuated them," he managed to so mystify the populace that he became a viable alternative to the incumbent's straightforwardness and reserved promises. The election's outcome was never in doubt. It was more likely that the missionaries were phenomena attributable to the president's landslide election. Despite his years controlling the decidedly rancid content of network television, he claimed to be lately guided by deep religious principles, and it was only natural that the nation, enchanted by the promise of another fresh start, followed the fashion. His victory had emboldened the zealots, had encouraged many to believe it was no less than a mandate from the Almighty to go forth and proclaim the good word unto the land and all its inhabitants. Most of those who stopped at Karen's threshold did not mention abortion directly, but the theme they all shared did not vary: the country's libertine ways would lead to eternal damnation.
October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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From the Vonnegut Museum and Library in Indianapolis…
Wall in Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library in Indianapolis: “We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful what we pretend to be…”
October 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I have!
Still of opening credits for a Star Trek original series episode: Written by D.C. Fontana…
October 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Wear a fedora and pretend you’re Indiana Jones for Halloween!
Indiana Jones cocking his fist to punch a Nazi soldier…
October 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Milo Minderbinder nods knowingly…
October 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to blue sky…
September 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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They will not stop until they’ve photoshopped gang tattoos in ultra thin sans serif font on the knuckles of every minority in the country…
Trump holding image of photoshopped gang tattoos in ultra thin sans serif font on knuckles attributed to Kilmar Abrego Garcia…
September 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I guess he’s tired of getting his ass kicked by *squints* California?
September 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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God knows solar power has never worked there—oh, wait…
Landing site of Apollo 11. An astronaut stands next to solar powered equipment deployed on the surface. The lunar landing module, US flag, and television camera are in the background…
August 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Remember these quislings? #Iran #IranIsrael
June 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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This was a long time coming. I was 14 in 1972 and felt about the same way as Hunter Thompson did… #Iran #IranIsrael
June 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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50 years ago tonight. This tour produced the “Bongo Fury” album featuring Captain Beefheart. Check out the price!
Ticket stub for Frank Zappa & Mothers of Invention concert at El Paso County Coliseum May 23, 1975. Advance price $5…
May 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Calls to mind this passage from “The Grapes of Wrath…”
May 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Eye-opening satellite loop of enormous dust clouds enveloping northern Chihuahua, west Texas and southern New Mexico this afternoon…
April 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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“I’m afraid I can’t tell you that, Dave…”
Eye of HAL-9000
January 8, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #440,865! Did I win the lottery?
September 16, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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June 28, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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Wet winters give us a riot of gold poppy blooms…
A field of gold poppies with North Mount Franklin, TX in background…
February 20, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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Yes, we know, we can hear them breathing harder!
Lockheed Martin Earnings Are Coming as Global Conflict Rises
January 22, 2024 at 11:38 PM