And...their hearts were in the right place

Julie Newmar had a heart attack last week, and a stent was inserted. She's on Facebook, and so she decided to share this information with her fans, and with people who were obviously not the "close friends" they thought they were (and who love to claim to be whenever they post comments on her page).

Social media being what it is...90% ego and appalling ignorance, there were plenty of comments that, to be charitable, could've been edited OUT. But the point of social media is to make people feel good about themselves, and knowing Julie read their comments...no matter how inane...keeps them as fans.

I refer to comments such as these:

“I’m glad you are ok and still amongst us.”
“Get well soon! You were my first crush!!”
“Thank God you re fine! God bless you Our superheroe! Our eternal catwoman! The best one! Im from Argentina!”
“Oh dear me! Take good care of yourself, Julie and be well.”
“The Mysterious Stranger is sending you Love, Light & Healing.”
"Glad you survived! Be well, my friend. In other news, a local radio station has been playing Stubby singing Jubilation T. Cornpone lately. Like, a lot! And every time I hear it, I think of you"
“Sorry to hear this but I’m glad that you are still alive you do have nine lives my lady.”

But there you are. As we say, "their hearts were in the right place," and not everybody knows what to say when there's startling news to digest. Most of her so-called Facebook friends and the Batman fans (and oooh let's not forget all the To Wong Foo drag lovelies) left it at:

"Best wishes for a speedy recovery” Or “I’m praying for you.” Quite a few seem to hold the "positive energy" believe that dashing off a sentence on Facebook, and then going off to watch "Keeping up with Kardashians" or finishing the bag of Cheez Doodles, makes a difference.

Julie has since gone back to posting vintage photos of herself, and pictures of flowers in her garden, which tells her fans that all is well. And that it's time for a continuance of those "you were the best Catwoman" and "MEOW!" comments. It does the heart good.

The good thing is that we all realize mediocre people and downright idiots at least buy DVDs and photos and put their butts in the seats of movie theaters. Bless 'em. So we don't take their sometimes downright obnoxiously inane comments for being anything but the best their cabbage-brains can do.

Julie would be the first to defend the jerks calling her "my lady" and saying "you look good for your age," or declaring love not for her but a character she played on a campy TV show 50 years ago. After all, she'd tell this Libra, these harmless types are balanced by some actually USEFUL people posting comforting advice.

Fortunately, and happily, it was easy to zip through the fools, and find some genuine advice and well-meaning support from what seems to always be less than 10% of the total. People such as these:

Yes, thankfully, several people did take the time to be giving, caring, kind and informative. Which is like that scene from “The Magic Christian,” where some pound notes were seen floating in a huge pile of sewage.

Stephen Foster? He's not a BLACK WOMAN - Erase him from the History Books

Gary Brooker of Procol Harum sang "Old Black Joe" on stage.

So, of course, did Al Jolson and hundreds of others. To them, the sorrowful melody and lyrics expressed sympathy for the plight of slaves in the South, and the dignity they still held. The author, Stephen Foster, inspired generations of songwriters, and no doubt, such classics as "Old Man River," which likewise had lines about life's miseries. "Tired of livin' and scared of dyin'" is a universal sentiment that many feel, whether they're in the cotton fields or on the subway.

But...FUCK Stephen Foster. Tearing down statues is white people is kind of a purge, isn't it? It's FUN. It's also an easy target. Who is going to stand up and say "This is ludicrous?" A few white people who'll risk being called RACIST?

RAYYYYYYYY CYST! RAYYYYYYYY CYST! YOU A RACIST! YOUUUUUU A RAYYYYYYYY CYST!

When in doubt, shout RACIST. I would not be surprised if there's a fire in a movie theater and somebody shouts "RACIST!!"

But don't shout HOLOCAUST, because that never happened. Don't bring up Armenian genocide, because Turkey is our ally. Don't talk about all the different people who have been persecuted for their skin color or their religion, or just because some other bunch of assholes wanted their land.

You know, don't you, that most every country has been guilty of invading some other country, and that most any "hero" of any war, could easily be considered a BUTCHER.

Here's a familiar sight: workmen once again pulling down a statue of a white guy. Yes, while neo-Nazi idiots marched last weekend in the South, and NOBODY was upset about their "right to free speech" and NOBODY demanded they take down their swastika banners, a bunch of wimps and cowards pulled down the statue of one of America's greatest composers.

Hell, they wouldn't do that to Richard Wagner would they?

The news reports waffle quite a bit on Stephen Foster's lyrics and what they mean or don't mean. Even the statue, which shows a black man with Foster, has several interpretations. But, hell ya, "black man at the feet of the white man" is good enough. Take that SHIT down, and put up...oh....a statue of a BLACK WOMAN instead. That's PC, isn't it? Let's have a double order of Maya Angelou. EVERYBODY agrees that Maya Angelou was the greatest. (Fuck Shakespeare, too. Take another look at "Othello" you bastards.)

The complaint is about ONE song, which nobody even remembers? Ned something? Would it have been too LOGICAL to ask that the black banjo player be sliced off the statue, and let Foster remain? A compromise?

Would it have shown too much respect for the talents of Foster to acknowledge that he wrote some of the most popular music of his day, and that his melodies are still treasured? Or should the Kentucky Derby now NEVER NEVER NEVER play that racist bastard's "My Old Kentucky Home" song? What was Kentucky's role in the Civil War? How many slaves were toiling away on farms in Kentucky?

Stephen Foster was a man of his time, and mostly he seemed to have a great deal of sympathy for slaves. There were certainly thousands, millions who had LESS sympathy and were willing to fight for the "right" to keep blacks in chains. A lot of people who were not racists thought that blackface was a celebration, and that "Amos and Andy" on radio were just funny ethnics, no different from the stereotypical Greeks, Jews and Italians also common on radio back then. We're enlightened now? Ted Danson in blackface at a Friars Roast? The Wayans Brothers in white face as "White Girls?" Aren't there gray areas in this black and white world?

NOBODY thought to simply remove the black guy on the statue? Nobody thought that it's possible black people have strummed a banjo to Foster's music? Obviously nobody thought that a solo statue of Foster could go up in place of this one. No. Gotta be a BLACK WOMAN. A Native American or a Jew...are you KIDDING?? Somebody chosen on MERIT and not on RACE or GENDER? Oh, that's TOO RADICAL!!!!!

Cowardly whites and bullying blacks have come together for their revisionist views on Stephen Foster. Meanwhile, let's ignore Roger Waters, for example, the man who flies pigs, wears neo-Swastika outfits, and declares that Israel should be destroyed and all the Jews there starved to death with sanctions. ONLY Jews. ONLY Israel. He's not said a word about, oh, Kim Jong-Un and the slavery of North Koreans, who have even been marched into Russia to toil for Putin. Nah. North Korea is fine.

Feeling good about yourself, having a sense of power, pretending your interpretation of history actually IS history...I'm sure the people behind the Stephen Foster ass-kicking are just as happy as Letitia James, the "Public Advocate" who declared, in all her grand ignorance and arrogance, that Dr. Simms, known around the world for his caring and devotion, including setting up the first hospital in NYC for WOMEN...was one scumbag of a honky and his name never uttered again.

Let's end this by suggesting that whoever is in power...is going to corrupt the truth, distort the facts, and lack tolerance. But hey, the Pig Male-ions like Simms and Foster are going to crumble to dust, and with them, all failings of human nature, sensitivity and morality. The white people...they have ALWAYS been evil, and they are evil to this very day. Boko Haram, a group that rapes and enslaves black women and kills their men...it's a lie that they are black and they live in Africa. Let's put an end to THAT inconvenient truth.

Gary Brooker of Procol Harum had better not sing "Old Black Joe" ever again. But let's shrug and ignore Boko Haram's black army that goes after black girls and puts them into slavery.

An Ode to Taylor Swift? Nah, just a LIMERICK

Stu Bergen and Dennis Kooker - too REAL big ASSHOLES

The IFPI is congratulating itself with a "Global Music Report" that, predictably, declares the music biz in GREAT shape. Why? Because it's easy to stream bad rap music, dull country crap and the inanities of Pumpkin Head Sheeran, Sorry Sweet Potatoes Sam Smith and Adele, and Bitch Goddess Taylor Swift.

And since ALL those acts tour and make a fortune with it, they aren't relying on streaming music royalties, and they aren't getting them. Everyone knows Spotify and Pandora and YouTube give PENNIES on the dollar. But fat cats like Stu Bergen of Warners and Dennis Kooker of Sony, can't stop chortling about how people LOVE music, and the "markets" are growing.

It's just that you aren't seeing the next Randy Newman, Loudon Wainwright, Procol Harum, King Crimson, Kate Bush or any other individuals with something unique to offer. You get a freak show like Sia, maybe. And all the sound-alike versions of Beyonce and Cardi B. You do NOT get what made music so vital and exciting an art form in the 70's and 80's.

Warners and Sony are gigantic corporations. They are leviathans that want to swallow a grouper or a shark, and spit away smaller fish as being not worth bothering with. Likewise, they are telling the world, "We are SUCH fat cats, we don't care what we spill, how we wet ourselves, or the crumbs we leave behind or the cake we leave on the plate." In other words, they don't give much of a damn about piracy.

Let's take a look at this fat cat Stu Bergen, for example. Look at this wall-eyed ass-face. You'd want him to marry your daughter? Be your accountant? Give you SINCERE advice? Expect him to care about anything besides how his suit looks?

The article in MUSICWEEK (should be Music WEAK) did not have a picture of Dennis Kooker, but the name is good enough. Dennis was bragging about how "paid streaming is the fuel" to...do what...keep this bastard driving a fancy car?

The arrogance of the uncaring Fat Cats is to have this motto tattooed into the jelly of their brains: "LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE."

The execs at Warners and Sony are living well. To them, the craven, parasitic and bratty bloggers who upload everybody's music for some Rapidgator money, or for a few "likes" and "nice comments" from strangers, are nobodies.

What if the F.D.A. thought that way? What if they said to Bergen and Kooker, "We no longer have standards on peanut butter. Don't expect us to monitor how many insect parts are in a jar of peanut butter. Look at it this way, if you can't see them, what does it matter? It's like some angry chef pissing in your chicken soup. If you can actually taste it, send us a letter. And we'll reply, "We will take the appropriate action," and do NOTHING.

There's an old comical verse from Ogden Nash about the termite who "found a piece of wood. He tasted it. It tasted good. And that is why your Auntie May...fell through the parlor floor today.

Pirates on blogs and in forums are dangerous termites. The more there are, the worse it gets, and here's another important point: they should be discouraged for the MORALITY of it. Some self-avowed "Bandit" or "Pirate" shouldn't be bragging about having 10,000 downloads on his FREE BLOG, or being around for FIFTEEN YEARS. "It's bad for business. It's bad all around." But hey, that was Sam Spade, and guys like Bergen and Kooker probably watch nothing but Marvel super hero movies while wearing over-sized custom-made Underoos.

Supposedly powerful guys who run Warners and Sony should be able to tell politicians, "Make it so we can have rogue websites BLOCKED, the way the FBI blocks rogue sites that interfere with commerce and promote illegal activity." Bergen and Kooker should be saying to Brin, of Google, "Your BLOGSPOT is full of obnoxious shit. Flush it out. Don't make our employees go through hoops. If we send a DMCA, take down the blog." Funny, they pushed Brin's YouTube (also owned by Google) to make sure that pirated music is identified and blocked. Why not do it for Google's Blogspot?

In his eulogy for his brother Bobby, Ted Kennedy said, "Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man....Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change..."

Of Bobby, he said, he was "a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it..."

President Obama said that when something's not right...you MAKE IT RIGHT. He said if something's not right, the reason is because somebody is profiting from the status quo." You can see that minute of Obama right here:

Obama on SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT When brats are going "Nyaa nyaa, you can't stop me," the response shouldn't be, "It's only because I've got my eyes closed." It should be, "I DO see you, and I'm slapping you down."

Tell me, Mr. Kooker and Mr. Bergen, do you allow ants to crawl on your feet, and flies to walk up and down your nose? Do you want roach parts in your peanut butter? Do you think artists such as Randy Newman, Loudon Wainwright, Procol Harum, King Crimson and Kate Bush should STILL be getting royalties from their work and be protected from parasites? Do you ignore them because they're not Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift?

The truly pathetic thing about this piracy, is that an intern, in ONE DAY, could end a dozen of the most virulent and obnoxious Blogspot blogs with DMCA's. AN INTERN. With a little PUSH, websites that offer downloads could be blocked. The owners could even be thrown in jail or forced to pay fines. It is way too easy for people to find pirated material, and that's largely the fault of GOOGLE, for having a search engine and a Blog company that thrives on the traffic, and organizations such as the RIAA, BPP, IFPI, BREIN and GEMA, who represent Warners, Sony, Universal and the rest, and could easily squash the bugs.

Somehow I doubt Mr. Kooker and Mr. Bergen shrug and say "Oh, I'll live with rats, roaches and moths in my luxury home..." They don't say, "I don't notice it, because I have more important things on my mind." Imagine if they called for an exterminator, and the exterminator said, "Sorry, I'm very busy" or "That doesn't seem to be a problem worth my time" or "Hey, I've made enough money this week, I don't need to make a house call for YOU."

The word to describe what Mr. Kooker and Mr. Bergen and the RIAA and the others are doing by NOT doing anything, is: CRAPATHY.

Donald Trump and Macron - SAPRISTI!

Good question...if you offer a bit of grooming to somebody who needs it, are you being helpful, or are you embarrassing the person?

And a big FUCK YOU to cowardly, vulgar Randa Jarrar ps, yer ugly too.

Well, Allah be praised.

From the safety of Academia, some smug ass-wipe named Randa Jarrar hurled vulgarity about the deceased Barbara Bush. I mean, vulgarity.

The phrase the PROFESSOR used was FUCK OUTTA HERE.

That's why this ass-wipe gets the same here. The brainless fat-faced double-ugly cunt.

HOW UGLY? TAKE A LOOK. This is a Professor, not the tattooed fat lady at a Circus Freak Show.

I know. We can't have tattoo shaming. We acknowledge that Academia is so dumbed down, anyone who has the attention span to read a fortune cookie can be hired as a professor. But "FUCK OUTTA HERE" regarding a deceased First Lady means the gloves are off and ALL the words can be used. Right back atcha, Randa, you cheese-faced arrogant load of shit.

I know nothing about Randa Jarrar other than that she plays the race card, and has one of those cushy jobs where all she had to do is natter about her poor self and her people, and she gets paid way too much for it. Like too many provocateurs at colleges today, the more outspoken and OUT THERE you are, the more wimpy whites applaud and cheer you. There IS a limit. Or there should be.

Rowdy Ranting Randa Tweeted "the witch is dead" over Barbara Bush, and hoped for all the Bush family to drop, too. When she got Tweets of protest for this insane remark, The Nutty Professor doubled down with more, including that most Professorial of debate phrases: "FUCK OUTTA HERE."

Read it for yourself. I'll just preface it by saying that I'm NO fan of idiot Dubya Bush, I don't think too much of George H.W. Bush either, and you won't find ME spending time on Twitter following Sean Hannity and screaming about Libtards. BUT..."the witch is dead" on Barbara Bush? Who, besides a paranoid, hateful, psychotic NUT would be happy that a woman past 90, who never held public office, has died?

Barbara Bush was a wife and mother. She wasn't exactly a Jackie Kennedy or a Michelle Obama or even Lady Bird Johnson. She didn't give speeches or offer high-profile inspiration regarding education, nutrition, or even the cleanliness of highways. Allegedly Nancy Reagan influenced her husband's views. Barbara didn't. Not the husband or her son.

Her death, which was expected, didn't even get the hoopla for the birth of royal baby #3 in England! And yet this hummus-brain Fresno State professor went into a goading rage about it. When you TWEET, you are intending to upset, annoy and bother people. And she did it with vulgarity.

A Fresno State University Professor! With what credentials? Teaching what courses? What qualifications do you need to get a professorship at this idiotic dump? All you need is to be the fight color and religion for PC white morons?

FRESNO STATE? The intellectual hub of the world, is it? They needed a provocateur? Or they needed to "diversify" and hire a loudmouth psycho-bitch? They got Randa because a few other universities already have the antisemitic crackpots, and the old fashioned radical black professors with the African name-changes and their curriculums of Malcolm X as Hero etc. etc.

How AMAZING is it, that a well-fed (fat faced) professor, playing the race card, is being defended for being so coarse, so childish, so disgusting, as to rant "the witch is dead" and "FUCK OUTTA HERE" about a dead First Lady while thousands are mourning her?

Let's run those Tweety-sweety words of hers back:

"FUCK OUTTA HERE."

That's what a professor at Fresno State University says, and is defended for saying?

Now what exactly did Barbara Bush do to deserve this? "Raised a war criminal," shouts Randa. Tweets being what they are, there's no room for the professor to elaborate, or offer footnotes, or a link to some paper she wrote with fund money? She just does her name-calling?

Randa Jarrar sounds more like a street-level rapper than a college professor with "FUCK OUTTA HERE."

Randa, if you want to go after every mother or father who you think is a "Criminal" of some type, you may need to find a PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR to give your brain a good douche. Barbara Bush raised SIX children, including Neil and Jeb. But Randa thinks Barbara specifically designed George W. to become a "war criminal?" Babs had a blackboard in the nursery and wrote: "Kill Muslims" on it?

I think you're more likely to find blackboards in the Middle East with "FATWA" on it, and "KILL INFIDELS." Maybe Assad's "witch" mommy had a blackboard with "Kill Your Own People" on it. But in this fairyland of Academia, and overboard PC tolerance to REVERSE racism, it's ok for a professor, with apparently little qualifications or IQ, to spend her time cheering a mother's death.

Randa is too smug to check with a HISTORY professor or some authority on the Middle East in general, to explain the complexities of how you deal with Syria or Iran or Iraq and how Muslim leaders have smiled and condoned the murders of Coptic Christian Arabs, Christians and Jews and even doctors without borders trying to help the sick. Randa MIGHT want to take a course at a decent college, on how Muslims are "war criminals" to their own kind, and if there's no Christian or Jew around, will happily slice the neck of a Sunni or Shi'ite or some woman who took off her burqa for a moment to spit out some bad hummus. Randa might also want to hit the gym to try not to be a fat fuck, as some people overseas might take one look at this cow and mistake her for a typical overfed AMERICAN.

Randa responded to her criticism by, of course, playing the race card and braying about her own race, as if Asians, Jews, Mexicans and even WASPs don't have tales of discrimination and misery:

"If you'd like to know what it's like to be an Arab American Muslim American woman with some clout online...look at the racists going crazy...

Well, yes, when you're a provocateur, and you are hired as a professor BECAUSE you're a loudmouth about YOUR causes, and you scream RACISM or SEXISM or whatever ISM and JISM is coating your tongue, you DO get some response. You do get outraged, decent people "going crazy" that a college, even in a "Fresno State" of insanity, would hire somebody so unhinged and incompetent.

So far there's been nothing but kneejerk defense of Randa from the fawning morons at Fresno State. That includes this idiotic Lee character (sex undetermined, probably even by Lee) who thinks everything is covered by "Freedom of Speech." You know, one of these chin up, brain in the ass clowns who pip-squeaks, "I defend your right to free speech, even if I don't agree."

Maybe a new course at Fresno State will be: "The term FUCK OUTTA HERE, and its uses during intelligent debate."

This Muslim Professor seems to think that nobody else has difficulties in life. The late great Dick Gregory knew better. While offering wise and often funny observations on Civil Rights issues, his catch-phrase was, "We all have problems." He knew that the white people in his audience weren't living perfect lives, or else they wouldn't be coming to his show seeking some comic relief. EVERYBODY deserves tolerance and respect.

Barbara Bush? Have some sympathy for ANY woman who marries a guy and ends up with BUSH for a last name. Randa, would YOU want to go through life address as "Mrs. Bush?"

Ridiculous Random-Babble Randa doesn't speak for all Arab American Muslim American women with some clout, fortunately. She only speaks to the stupidity of Fresno State in hiring somebody vulgar, ignorant and immature.

It turns out this blob of bitterness has a history of giving curse-laced speeches:

Not a surprise, is it? Intolerance is usually part of the "race card" game. Be vulgar, obnoxious, insulting and stupid about everybody but your own kind. Offense is the best defense.

The media is quoting from her rants, and wow, she does NOT sound like much of a "Professor" does she? She sounds like a dummy who, like, can't, like, say anything, like, without some shit about dirty words, like:

"...I don’t give a fuck. I'm buying guns. I'm an American. I'm buying guns. The other side is, like, doing some stupid shit. 'm gonna do some stupid shit. I'm tired of, like, being the bigger person — literally am usually — but, like, I'm also just tired of the left being, like, fucking stupid and being like, ‘No we have to like be gentle' … no, don’t be fucking gentle."

No punchline? No. Just a humorless, ugly rant from a humorless ugly creep...a disgusting pig with an inflated sense of self-entitlement. She's in a sty somewhere, hiding. The question is whether Fresno State is going to stick to being "fucking stupid" (as Randa says all whites are) and keep her, or quietly decide that they need to go out and buy a different brand of radical provocateur professor who says things that enrage people.

Did you like how she ended her screaming and cursing with the usual sass? "MY RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH" she taunted. What next? Say "Allah has set a fire to burn you infidels" in a crowded movie theater? Sounds like you're capable of that, bitch. Excuse me...overpaid fat-faced ugly bitch. How much of a bitch is she? She did end with "GO BULLDOGS!"

That may be a reference to her favorite Fresno team, or her sex partners.

PULL IT SURPRISE - The Pulitzer Prize Jerk-offs Honor Kendrick Lamar

"Hey, the PULITZER PRIZE...isn't that...er...supposed to be PRESTIGIOUS?"

Right. It used to be.

"Didn't the PULITZER PRIZE mainly go to journalists, and authors of quality fiction and non-fiction? John Steinbeck? Eugene O'Neill? That type of person?

Right. But that was when literature was literary and not pudgy E.L. James and pudgier George R.R. Martin. It's dumbed down.

But...THE PULITZER PRIZE. Was it EVER given to...progressive rock? An songwriter like Paul Simon? Maybe...Bob Dylan?

Sheeeit. Dayummmm. Wuttup? What's WRONG with you?

Actually, there has been a PULITZER PRIZE for music going back to the 1940's. The stuffy bunch never considered Cole Porter to be worth a second look. They wouldn't recognize Rodgers and Hart (or Hammerstein) or Frank Loesser or even the Great Sondheim.

To the snoots at the PULITZER BRIZE committee, only CLASSICAL MUSIC and ACADEMIC music belonged.

Classical music, which hadn't produced anything of note since Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," Stravinsky's "Firebird," and Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf," managed to toss a nod to Aaron Copland (1945) for his ballet "Appalachian Spring." Otherwise, it was opera that you may faintly have heard of (two from Gian Carlo Menotti) but would not want to hear, and a lot of experimental classical music nobody wants to hear (George Crumb and Roger Sessions among others).

The list of each decade of PULITZER PRICE awards for Music reads like what it is, a list of arcane, absurd, pretentious high brow snooty snot. There have been very few exceptions to the clique of insular and hardly spectaular or innovative pieces of music they bestowed their recognition on. See for yourself:

You can argue that the PULITZER PRIZE stuffed-shirts have been trying to encourage and breathe life into very dead forms of music. Nobody wants to go to the opera. Nobody wants to go to the ballet. It's the dollar bin that has Wynton Marsalis albums nobody wants. There hasn't even been a token effort to commend Sir Paul McCartney for writing an Oratorio, or Andrew Lloyd Wombat for a rock opera, or Procol Harum for melding rock with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.

It can be argued that Broadway gives out Tony Awards, and progressive rockers get Grammy Awards (once in a while...it gets rarer and rarer, doesn't it?) So why single out Kendrick Lamar, when he is making a fortune and getting Grammy Awards and other honors? Who doesn't know this guy? Is it that the people who actually heard 2013 winner Caroline Shaw's "Partita for 8 Voices" or 2013's John Luther Adams' "Become Ocean" need to open their ears and minds and take a listen to Lamar?

Where's the logic in that? What's Lamar doing that Miles Davis didn't do?

What's Lamar doing that "A Whiter Shade of Pale" didn't do?

What push, what change in music did Lamar accomplish that you can't say was equal to Bob Dylan, or even Johnny Rotten or Run DMC?

The PULITZER PRIZE does not recognize the Americana of Johnny Cash or George Jones? KENDRICK LAMAR is the exception?

PC has come to the PULITZER PRIZE, is all. The Nobel Prize honored Dylan, after over 50 years, so these guys took it into a whole different direction, Know Wuttum Sayin'?

We should be listening to all types of music, but THE PULITZER PRIZE didn't think so since it began noticing music in 1943. It was always some uninteresting classical experimentation or maybe a tedious exercise in modern jazz, as long as the people performed it in a tux. Now this. For decades, RAP has been pushed as everything from authentic ghetto music to the revolutionary sound of sex to the mirror of street violence. Along the way, everyone from Kurtis Blow to the great Kanye has been hailed as a genius. Lamar is not unique in being fawned over like a musical Jesus. That he became the PULITZER PRIZE's own Personal Jesus, and now sanctified and given an AMEN so that all schools should study him and everyone should come adore him...is just a bit pathetic.

It's a Great Day for a Hanging -- a Statue of Limitations leaves Central Park

Hey, why not put a rope around his neck? The bastard. If he didn't lynch black women, he did worse. At least, some people say so in this PC age. So damn the truth, twist the facts, and TAKE THAT STATUE DOWN. Hell, can we put one up for Cardi B?

We're being told this Dr. J. Marion Sims guy is a"serial sadist" who, glint in his eye, carved into black vaginas for the sheer fun of it.

But some say ee was a man who taught medical procedures all over the world.

He was a man who fought for women's rights and created the first hospital for women in New York City.

He was a man who demanded that cancer patients be treated fairly, and rejected the gossipy belief that cancer was contagious.

When he had trouble convincing people cancer is not contagious, and patients should be admitted, he helped create New York Cancer Hospital.

That doesn't sound like a bad guy, but a Dr. Jeckyl can conceal a Mr. Hyde. Was he a racist and sadist?

Was he secretly running Southern Cracker Hospital and the Center for Black Vagina Carving?

It seems he didn't take sides too often. For example, Dr. Sims worked with Napoleon III to create the American-Anglo Ambulance Corps, helping to treat casualties efficiently at the Battle of Sedan (regardless of which side they were on.)

Dr. J Marion Sims was, at one time, president of the American Medical Association.

DOES THAT SOUND LIKE A HERO TO YOU? Isn't that why a statue was built for him?

Now we're told he was a racist who got his kicks out of using an ice cream scoop on black vaginas?

According to Letitia James, who took over the ridiculous post of "public advocate" from ridiculous Bill DeBlasio: "We know that his work was highly unethical and deeply racist. A monument to recognize a serial torturer of enslaved black women has no place in our city and today action is being taken to finally remove it.”

That's according to Letitia James, scholar.

What facts does she have to back that up?

Shouldn't she have said, "And right here, I have all the evidence. If he was alive today I could have him indicted and found guilty by a jury. I have EVIDENCE."

It seems that the spin-doctoring AGAINST Dr. Sims is similar to the spin-doctoring FOR Malcolm X as a great leader worth respect, and Louis Farrakhan as a noble religious leader. BOTH are DOCUMENTED in giving racist remarks against whites and Jews, but nobody's getting worked up about it, are they?

Is it just a coincidence that a day after that statue of Whitey was taken away to a cemetery, Ms. James sent out a mass mailing asking for donations to her CAMPAIGN?

Why is this statue removal her best claim to fame? Why not building a homeless shelter or fighting to keep crooked panhandlers off the street or fighting for quality of life for ALL citizens? Oh, but it's flashy.

President Obama, in talking to David Letterman, pointed out that "if something's not right," and it's STILL going on, it's because somebody is making a profit on it. Somebody is enjoying the status quo.

And the reverse can be true. If somebody is claiming "something's not right," it's only because it's an easy target, and can get publicity. somebody's making a profit on pointing it out. In this case, it would be Letitia James, who got a lot of ink for accomplishing nothing much. It's easier to get a statue removed than to fight bean-counters for more pencils and papers for school kids. Why are teachers still buying supplies out of their own pocket? How does removing a statue nobody more than glanced at, of vital importance?

Screaming RACIST at a statue is fine publicity. Who does it hurt, except the reputation of a dead man who has no relatives? Nobody fought for Dr. Sims' reputation because...why risk being called a racist?

One of allegations about Dr. J. Marion Sims is that he deliberately and cruelly refused to use anesthesia on his black patients.

Would it surprise you to know that in the 1840's, most doctors hadn't heard of it and didn't use it? That many considered it dangerous?

Why didn't he use chloroform on his patients? Records show that chloroform was first used in Scotland in 1847, so it was not available to Dr. Sims when he began his operations. Ether was very new.

The best evidence is that Dr. Sims either did not know it existed (it dates from 1842), or didn't know where to get it (he was not operating out of New York or Boston after all, or didn't trust it.

So, he preferred to torture black women, and only black women? Is THAT the truth? The truth needs to be backed up by facts. Not hearsay. Not something possibly made up by somebody with an agenda. (For example, Rufus Griswold blackening the name of Poe with an obit written under an assumed name and making a lot of blatantly false accusations as to Poe's character. Griswold did that out of jealousy and malice.)

It seems, factually, that Dr. Sims was on of the BEST doctors in Montgomery, Alabama. Apparently he was asked by a slave owner to help with the suffering of three females with "woman troubles."

If you wanted to see a gynecologist in 1845, where would you go? Answer: a LONG WAY. Was there even a doctor in New York City or London with "Gynecologist" on the door?

Dr. Sims, a skilled "general practitioner" and the ME TOO movement should revere him for creating THIS:

Should we "spin" this and say that he invented a torture device? It's too damn easy to "spin" things. You name the hero, and somebody will have published a "spin" on how horrible he actually was. Lincoln. FDR. JFK. Churchill. It's not difficult at all, to twist things around.

Back in 1845, there was certainly ignorance over many things, from whether there were angels in the clouds, to whether people with different color skin or facial features were heathens or stupid. Slavery and genocide has happened all over the world, and every race can point to a time when they were conquered by someone else, or some other ethnic group tried to take their land, or were called inferior. That stupidity was common back then and amazingly, is still common now. One religious group shouts and blows up people of a different religious group? That's racism.

One thing we do know about Dr. Sims was that he was trying to learn more about his craft, and deal with things that most were ignorant about. Like...vesicovaginal fistulas.

What? Huh?

Wikipedia will tell you:

"Vesicovaginal fistulas occur when the woman's bladder, cervix and vagina become trapped between the fetal skull and the woman's pelvis, cutting off blood flow and leading to tissue death. The necrotic tissue later sloughs off, leaving a hole. Following this injury, as urine forms, it leaks out of the vaginal opening, leading to a form of incontinence. Because a continuous stream of urine leaks from the vagina, it is difficult to care for, creating personal hygiene issues that may lead to marginalization from society for the woman, and vaginal irritation, scarring, and loss of vaginal function."

Giving a lecture at the New York Academy of Medicine on November 18, 1857, Dr. Sims said he was still not using anesthesia for fistula surgery, even though it was now available, “because they are not painful enough to justify the trouble and risk attending their administration."

Is there evidence of a speech he gave declaring black women as physically different from white? In that climate, especially when he was in the South, he would not have any reason to hide such beliefs. Maybe he simply didn't have any such beliefs.

Dr. Sims seems a compassionate and dedicated man.

While Dr. Sims had concerns about anesthesia during an operation, he had no qualms about using available pain relief after the operation.

Opium was well known and accepted at the time as a pain reliever, and he gave it to the slave women. He trusted it would help them, and it did.

What's the spin on THAT, Letitia? That evil bastard son-of-a-bitch Butcher Racist Sims only did it so the women could get back into the fields quicker?

Doctoring is not easy. Spin doctoring is.

Why did slave owners bring the women to Dr. Sims? One would suppose it was because they were fond of these slaves and wanted them well. Not every slave owner was vicious, although they were all ignorant of the notion that every human is equal.

Is there a bill of sale showing that Dr. Sims paid owners to bring them slave women with problems so he could operate on them? That he considered these slaves as test subjects the same way some companies use rabbits and mice? Proof. Show the proof.

Once "The Father of Modern Gynecology," Dr. Sims has been literally toppled by spin and theorizing and perhaps, outright fiction.

Is that a surprise? Think of, oh, Al Franken forced to resign the U.S. Senate for a few fanny pats and a gag photo, which got spun into him being an evil misogynist and pervert.

A spin on Dr. Sims is that he forced the slave women to be naked for the operations. Yeah? How ELSE do you perform gynecological procedures?

Today shouting "racist" is just another opiate for the masses.

Francis Scott Key was branded a "racist," and it sparked charges that the National Anthem should not be played.

Oddly, while people are happy to go back a hundred or more years to complain about something, "racism" is not always charged on what's happening NOW.

Native Americans can't shout it at the owner of the Washington Redskins because nobody cares.

Orthodox Jews can't shout it at the judges who shrug and dismiss cases of ethnic profiling. Oh, the guy in the Orthodox Jew outfit was sucker-punched and the person laughed and walked away? Couldn't POSSIBLY be a bias attack.

Puerto Ricans can't get anywhere if they scream that they have no electricity following a hurricane.

Equality sometimes ain't too equal, huh?

The statue is down.

This comes just a day after Starbucks' CEO wet his pants (no sugar or cream with that) and announced that 8,000 of his stores were going to be SHUT DOWN so that his employees can undergo "sensitivity training." Or something.

Nobody's suggesting the owner of the Washington Redskins undergo "sensitivity training." Why is that? Why is it that some ethnic groups are ignored?

Putting the statue's demise into the zeitgeist of the times, (I'm talking so that whites can understand my trope, and its underpinnings), it happened in an atmosphere of "The Star Spangled Banner is racist, let's take a knee," and "Blacks should win more Academy Awards," and "there's still no equality for women despite a black female producer running half the shows on TV and almost every music award going to Beyonce, and everyone wanting Oprah to run for President.

We know that Wagner was an antisemite. His music is still being played everywhere. While maestro Levine, a sad homosexual who befriended very willing guys who took money from him, is not welcome to conduct his operas, Wagner's operas ARE welcomed at the Met. Have you heard of a statue of Wagner being taken down? Why is that? Because nobody's worried that Jews will riot? Do we deny truth?

Dr. J. Marion Sims. An easy target. A dead guy with no relatives. And not a President or a Founding Father (who owned slaves and presumably didn't always treat them gently. Except for a few females, perhaps.)

The doctor's statue has been moved to his grave, where it might get sprayed with paint. That is, if the graffiti artists have any left after spraying Jewish tombstones.

Letitia the Public Advocate hasn't been too vocal about indignities heaped on the living. When will somebody say "Senior Citizens' Lives Matter" and make sure they don't live on dog food or die of neglect in a government hospice because their Social Security was cut and their Medicare didn't pay for their expenses?

Dr. Sims is not currently experimenting on animals so a Kardashian can have a new fragrance for sale in Target.

Dr. Sims is not one of the guys shooting endangered animals for trophies.

Where's Letitia James advocating for investigations into incompetent medical clinics where patients undergo harrowing, scarring, and sometimes fatal procedures?

Francis Scott Key is now a bastard. Andrew Jackson will be tossed off the $20 bill. But worse people, DOCUMENTEDLY WORSE, are getting away with horrific racism and genocide RIGHT NOW.

Morrissey - HALAL food is RACIST. (It's also smelly)

It's been rumored that Morrissey named "The Smiths" in honor of my family. I started that rumor myself. It makes more sense than Alex Jones declaring that "The Smiths" was named after HIS family, but in a conspiracy, the name was changed to "The Smiths" to confuse people.

Considering him an honorary "Smith," I have followed Morrissey's amusing histrionics. Wearing his liver on his sleeve, singing overbaked songs, alternately sour and sappy, Morrissey is just the person to theorize on what should or shouldn't be taken with a grain of salt. He also offers opinions on what shouldn't be swallowed at all. Meat especially.

The other day, he named HALAL meat in particular, as something to avoid.

Uh-oh. Let's not say anything that might upset The Muslims. That's not only "racist" it's deadly. Is Morrissey planning any concerts at Bataclan in Paris?

The Sinatra for Neurotics, people often accuse Morrissey of being overly sensitive. Meat is murder? Oh no, ha ha, meat is DELICIOUS. (It's never insensitive to jeer at vegetarians).

As a vegetarian Smith, well before I ever heard of Morrssey, I do believe that a) killing animals is not nice and usually done cruelly, b) meat is not good for you and humans, like gorillas, are designed to chew and eat vegetables and fruits, and c) it's un-ecological to waste resources on producing meat. It takes much more water to feed cattle than to seed a field of wheat or raspberries. We don't need lakes of shit caused by pig farms and the hogs that unload 15 pounds of crap a day.

So, what DID Morrissey say?

He said “halal slaughter requires certification that can only be given by supporters of Isis.”

That may be "over-reaching" as we say when describing the underpinning of a trope that relates to the zeitgeist. Still, when he says that halal slaughter is "evil," who can deny it?

The actual quotes, which Morrissey served up with a dollop of scorn for the politicos of England:

“If you have any concern for animal welfare, for example, you cannot possibly vote for either Conservatives or Labour, because both parties support halal slaughter, which, as we all know, is evil.

“Furthermore, halal slaughter requires certification that can only be given by supporters of ISIS, and yet in England we have halal meat served in hospitals and schools!”

He questioned why Prime Minister May would call "joyous" the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adhar when “millions of animals had their throats slit to mark the occasion."

He also mentioned that the slaughter involved in kosher food is "very cruel," but not "evil." Maybe stupid? There's SOME word for the sight of Orthodox Jews on a Brooklyn street waving chickens over their heads and engaging in rituals that, for some reason, can't be confined to an abbatoir.

Basically halal and kosher slaughter is similar: animals get their throats cut in actions that would repulse Jason of the horror movies, and the blood is drained...something only Dracula would find pleasant viewing.

Many animals are "stunned" before they are murdered. This is supposed to make things more humane. This is sort of a bad Monty Python routine, isn't it? "Oh yes, the Norwegian Blue is dead, and you can pluck its feathers and eat it, but before it got its throat slashed, it was...stunned."

“I am not saying that stunned slaughter is acceptable, because it couldn’t ever be,” Morrissey said. “If you use the term ‘humane slaughter’ then you might as well talk in terms of ‘humane rape’.”

The response to all this, predictably, has been shrugs, scorn, and cries of "racism" for putting halal food slaughter higher than kosher slaughter or simply ordinary slaughter, as is done to pigs (which Jews and Muslims won't eat).

Morrissey thinks that racism doesn't apply in his latest complaint, but it IS lodged by someone concerned about immigration and assimilation, and specifically against the Muslim way of killing animals. It does veer from his usual, general broadsides against cruelty to animals to single out a specific group. His first response was pretty right wing:

"“As far as racism goes, the modern loony left seem to forget that Hitler was left wing,” he says now. “When someone calls you racist, what they are saying is: hmm, you actually have a point, and I don’t know how to answer it, so perhaps if I distract you by calling you a bigot we’ll both forget how enlightened your comment was.”

Perhaps soon enough Morrissey will write a song or deliver a speech regarding how tourism in England will lessen if the country isn't full of whites looking and acting British, or how assimilation isn't happening when there are "no go" zones owned by immigrants, or how many fish and chip shops are going out of business. But getting back "on topic," he points out that racism is almost universal when it comes to the human race vs animals.

“Racism is at its most abhorrent in relation to eating animals," Morrissey countered. "If you eat animals, isn’t it a display of hatred for a certain species? And what gives you the right to eat another species or race? Would you eat people from Sri Lanka?”

Why he chose Sri Lanka, I have no idea. Maybe he noticed how many people in Sri Lanka are on eBay bootlegging books and records. It IS worth noting that some people DO eat other people, even of the same race, although Ed Gein, for example, was sexist about it. Or was he? Eating a man could be considered homosexual, and Gein would have found such an act perverted.

But let's not digress.

The important thing is that once again, Morrissey has raised awareness along with eyebrows. He's not as gentle about it as Paul McCartney (who impressed me by mentioning how he turned vegetarian after eating lamb while watching his pet sheep wandering around his Scotland home). Morrissey is a lot angrier and more graphic. And, yes, sometimes loonier. But there IS no "nice" way of killing, and there IS no reason why people shouldn't be vegetarian (Evander Holyfield would be among the many athletes to tell you that not eating meat won't make you weak).

And remember, animals can't sing the way Morrissey can. They can't sing: "You have killed me...you have killed me...but I forgive you...."

STARBUCKS - The difference between Black Deadbeats and White Deadbeats

You know Starbucks.

They improbably built an empire on housing deadbeats. For the price of a disgusting, unhealthy, overpriced COFFEE (make that a LATTE, please, with added cream, sugar and maybe some chocolate sprinkles), people can sit in there all day.

Or can they? Destroying the ambience of a Philadelphia Starbucks (apparently such a thing is possible), two black deadbeats walked in, sat down, didn't buy anything, AND wanted to use the bathroom.

For this, they were arrested. It's become the indignant "let's all get on the bullhorns, let's all get on social media" protest du jour. Warhol could've said, "Everything will be protested for a day or two."

Twitter was loaded with the trending topic, "BOYCOTT STARBUCKS!" Yes, ALL of them. The barrista who called 911 in Philadelphia is long gone, but the CEO is still apologizing and sobbing for the inexcusable 1-in-10-million incident.

The Twitter trend could've been "POLICE ARE RACIST," but, been there, done that. Let's not ask why the police would actually bother to handcuff a pair of deadbeats and haul them away. It may be that the blacks refused to leave on their own, as it really is everybody's God-given right to loiter and be a deadbeat in a Starbucks.

Barnes and Noble, which for years was known as THE place to be a deadbeat and use the bathroom, found itself struggling because nobody bought books there. They just read them like the store was a library, and stunk up the bathrooms, which they dutifully kept clean (unlike libraries). They ended up paying for more janitors, but selling fewer books. SO, they decided to be Starbucks and stick coffee bars in their stores. They expected deadbeats to at least buy some coffee. Nah, their books just got coffee stains on them.

Starbucks will survive The Great Outrage which, as a paradigm and trope of the zeitgeist, has an important underpinning.

It's the DIALOGUE (opened between talking heads on TV) over racism in America and how (gasp) it STILL goes on. As in: "Would that barrista have called the police if two WHITE WOMEN were sitting around, not buying anything, and one asked to use the restroom?"

Of course not. Unless they were fat. Or loud. Amy Schumer, be very careful and ORDER something.

Racial profiling. Well, yes. It's not likely that two white women are going to walk into a Starbucks and NOT buy anything. It's unlikely they would ask to use the bathroom and go in there and make a drug deal, or shoot up. Or piss all over the floor Or plant a bomb. Some other types of people...you watch them. Because you have a brain in your head and Mother Nature gave you emotions that include preservation and looking out for possible danger.

Starbucks will have a few more uncomfortable days before this blows over. Maybe, as we see in public libraries, we'll rejoice in having more deadbeats around in Starbucks, and they'll be a lot more comfortable about lounging around and taking up chairs and tables and being squatters. They'll certainly be squatters in the bathroom, and who knows, maybe Starbucks will kindly redesign the bathrooms to include showers, so these people (some are homeless, you know) won't have to wash their socks in the sink. Or their genitalia.

My simple solution to this is that I don't go to Starbucks. I don't NEED anyone to tell me to boycott a place that sells unhealthy liquids, or where unhealthy liquids may be all over the bathroom floor. Or where somebody might be cruising around just waiting to grab a laptop or a purse left "just for a moment" unguarded. Last time I was in a Starbucks was to be a deadbeat. I met a woman on Craigslist who sold me her printer, and she wanted to pick out a safe place for a meeting, which didn't involve her place or mine. The place wasn't crowded. Thankfully, I wasn't hassled for not buying anything (because I'm not black or Muslim...Black Muslims of course are carefully avoided and not hassled since there's still that Farrakhan-Malcolm element of danger to them).

Oh, being a white Liberal does mean that, eventually, I'll BUY something in a Starbucks, just as a courtesy for the few times I've waited in one of them to meet somebody, or used the bathroom (when there wasn't a hugely long line of white females). And when I do, I will proudly tell the barrista, "No cream, no milk..." and in a loud voice, "MAKE IT BLACK."

THE NECCO WAFER PANIC OF 2018 - Will they be A WAFER EVER?

YES, FRIENDS, the NECCO PANIC is ON.

People are afraid the WAFER will be going AWAY FOR...good.

Good? Oh, no no no, that's BAD. We ALL remember eating NECCO wafers. Like, 40 years ago. When just about everything else in the Halloween bag was eaten except for candy dots on paper and chalky orange "peanut" replicas.

According to the New England Confectionary Company, they will lay off almost all their staff unless a buyer saves them. A buyer who is going to call them up with a mouth full of Jujubes and say "Fhnmm wbnnwn wkfn wnanmm fbrrrrr" ("I need another really awful candy that Duane Reade won't stock.")

When I want proof that there's panic buying, I go right to...EBAY. Sure enough, hoarding has turned sellers into ho's, raising the prices and overcharging on postage. They are DUMPING their STOCK on eBay the way ELEPHANTS dumped in the SAWDUST at the CIRCUS. Clowns on eBay are desperately worried that, unlike Hostess Cupcakes, not even a Mexican company will come in, cheapen the recipe, and put out faux desserts for people who really can't taste the difference.

This same panic-buying happened with Hostess Twinkies, fruit pies, cupcakes, SuzyQ's and ho-ho's, as eBay entrep-manures rushed to the stores, bought out the supply, and overcharged on eBay.

You remember THAT? I sure do. Another era, this would've been a 45 rpm single and I might have even made a few bucks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oltp99tOmv8

you tube - THEY'RE TAKING THE TWINKIES AWAY

It's possible that within the next few weeks, or a month, NECCO will be saved, but for now, people believe that existing supplies are sure to be collectors items. Why not invest?

Thing is, if you buy NECCO WAFERS right NOW, and save them in a closet and ration them, they will taste just as stale in 20 years as they do right now.

WINTER'S DONE BUT THE WARM FEELINGS LINGER ON

GEE, ALMOST FORGOT THAT LOVELY NIGHT IN JANUARY...

BELATED THANKS....

Friday the 13th

This Summer at The New School

I got some brochures from THE NEW SCHOOL the other day.

The topics are SO different from years ago when I enrolled in Adult Education courses.

I Hear if You get 200,000 hits on Spotify or YouTube they send you a Lollipop

Coming Up Next, a NETFLIX streaming series "AMERICA'S FUNNIEST ANIMATED GIFS"

The Guardian needs a Guardian... in the meantime, they beg YOU for money

At one time, we were all told, "It's ok if newspapers and magazines disappear. Hell, why should we have printers? Paper mills? Ink companies? Newsstands? It's MUCH better if the news is available on a website, and if any typos and mistakes are caught by average people (let's forget about paying for proofreaders)."

The "new paradigm" was that The Internet Uber Alles, and aside from thousands of thousands of people, nobody would lose their jobs in the switch from "reality" (boo, hiss) to "digital" (hoooooooooo-rayyyyyyyyyyy and woooohooo!)

Just how in the name of Jesus Christ would this MIRACLE happen? "Banner ads!" Oh, and not only THAT, but hot links to Jeff Bezos' personal Jesus, AMAZON. See, if you read an article and it mentions there was a car wreck, the word CAR is hot linked, and if you accidentally touch it, ZOOOOOOOM, off you go to AMAZON to look at new cars you should buy, and "other things you will like" like models of cars, books about cars, CARtoons, etc. etc.

So how is this working out, as even Jesus Christ's "Christian Science Monitor" went digital with NO corporeal copy (not even the Holy Ghost of one)? Some newspapers, such as The Guardian and the NY Daily News etc. have slim editions sold at existing newsstands run by increasingly emaciated immigrants. But the prices have gone up. And on the websites, you see BEGGING BOWLS in square shapes:

The problem for The Guardian is...why pay them? As every pirate will tell you, "Writers and editors and everyone in the entertainment business is rich. They don't need money. "Buy it if you LIKE it," is the Internet law. After all, money has to be saved for the real world, where you can't walk into Applebees sit down, and order stuff and tell the waitress, "if I like it, I'll pay for it." Or, better yet, "Food should be free." You know, like newspapers are educational, therefore they have an obligation to give it away.

The Guardian finds itself needing a guardian. It finds itself praying to Jesus. Or to Allah, depending on how deeply sincere they are about "diversity" on their staff.

The Guardian, like so many writers, photographers, singers, artists, buskers, actors, actresses, etc. is on its knees, begging. Pass the hat. Please give us...a DOLLAR...please. PLEASE. We admit it, YOU have us over a barrel and are fucking us up the arse. You've got the DMCA laws on your side, the politicians in your pocket, and anonymous servers and Russian websites where Putin and his friends give free downloads of just about ANYTHING the Western world has by way of entertainment and information. So HAVE PITY. GIVE US...a DOLLAR.

What's next? The New York Times, known affectionately as The Gray Lady, will have to get down on her knees and prostitute herself? For a DOLLAR? Sorry whore, the sluts are giving it away. Newser and Decider and Huffity Puffity take any news that The Guardian or the New York Times generates, re-writes it, and presents it as their own. Photos taken at any scene of news are usually taken by some jerk with a cellphone, and uploaded to Facebook or a blog. All you need to do is give 'em a photo credit and they're happy. If it's a photo of Kardashian doing one of her zillion "wardrobe malfunctions" maybe THAT gets sold to pervy Harvey's TMZ website, and Harvey will have a gay old time snickering about it with his Fagin-army of moronic teenboys, and YOU'll see it with a ghosty "TMZ" logo on it. (They don't beg for dollars.)

You might think that Jeff Bezos, the Mussolini of the Internet, the dickhead of the world, the ruler of Amazon, and more of a billionaire than The Donald, might be a bit upset about all this, because he owns The Washington Post. No. He's not. Like some other rich bastards, he bought the newspaper for power and prestige, and is willing to lose money when he can make it up via his other bastardly business games.

The future of journalism is compromise and begging. Wise editors and publishers will refrain from upsetting wide-eyed power-mad scum like Jeff Bezos, and others who can make politicians loosen DMCA laws to the point where copyright actually IS copy wrong, and "fair use" can be taking someone's entire creative work and simply giving them a "credit" as a source.

Putin, who rigged an election through Facebook, is destroying American and British power houses...television, music and publishing...by giving safe haven to websites that ignore DMCA laws. Happily, he is aided and abetted by the RIAA, by the morons who run Doubleday-Dell-Penguin and other publishing houses, and by hapless and impotent beggers such as the staff of The Guardian, who can't do anything about the rampant plagiarism all over the Net and the ease by which people get their news without paying for it.

Why pay The Guardian a dollar? The rationalization to NOT do it, is that a dollar won't keep them in business anyway. As for ten or twenty dollars, hell, you might want to give that as a Paypal "tip" to a blogger who has given you every Beach Boys album ever made. Or maybe you feel kindlier to that torrent that asks you for a bitcoin donation for saving you all that money by giving you downloads of everything Netflix and Hulu have. And the bottom line...it's easy for writers to write. They should do it free on a blog and go have some thankless job of some kind that helps pay the rent. That $20 that could be donated to The Guardian should instead go towards a few six packs of beer. Kick back and watch free sports on the Internet and have beer. Maybe some chips. That's the life...Life is GOOD...just not for journalists, editors photographers, singers....

YouTube - Shocked that Violence Could Happen to THEM. Elizabeth Short, FINE.

YouTube has interesting ideas of what's ENTERTAINMENT. This is:

Various sickos come to YouTube to delight people with autopsy photos, nude pictures, and yes, nude autopsy pictures.

A curious thing about this: not EVERY Fascist Internet Giant has the same lack of morality. Google (owner of YouTube and this venue, Blogspot), has almost NO rules, and recognizes very little beyond copyright. Even then, if you're not a major company and have the time and resources to go through Google's hoops, you're not going to do very much to protect your copyrighted words, music or photography.

The three other well-known bastards...er, GIANT Internet sites that don't have humans to easily contact, are AMAZON, EBAY and FACEBOOK. None of them would allow the above. NONE.

Amazon certainly is not going to sell a video some moron put together loaded with creepy photos of a hacked up nude body. Ebay and Facebook both actually have rules about "terms of service" and fairly easy ways of reporting violations.

Not only does YouTube allow twisted and ghoulish morgue photos for fun...with no age restriction...Google itself will happily point you to websites loaded with this crap. They are, after all, best known as a search engine for bootlegs, pornography and all things vile. As for Blogspot, they'll be even happier to point you to one of THEIR Blogspot blogs (not so much Wordpress) where some grinning ghoul will ask you to put some money into his "Paypal TIP JAR" for his hard work.

It's really only some kind of copyright problem with Universal that prevents YOUTUBE from calling itself "PSYCHO."

Faces You'd Like to Punch

Chuck McCann has Died

“Now here’s another nice man…” gone.

Chuck McCann, age 83, died on Sunday of congestive heart failure. The big man with the big heart was a familiar face to most everyone growing up in the “golden age” of TV.

At the very least, he was known as the “Hi Guy” guy in those “Right Guard” commercials. Very typical of his style, he made something potentially obnoxious very lovable. I mean, WHO wants to SHARE a bathroom cabinet with the jerk next door? Especially when he’s obsessed with deodorant?

For those in the NYC area, Chuck was a beloved kiddie show host on WPIX. Unlike “Officer Joe” Bolton and “Fireman” Todd Russell and “Captain” Jack McCarthy, Chuck McCann was simply…CHUCK MCCANN. He danced down the hallways of WPIX to the tune of “Put on a Happy Face,” and then put on a show. One hell of a show, for that low budget and that audience of kids.

He might dress up as Little Orphan Annie and read the Sunday comics. He might be Dick Tracy. His monkeying around was the missing link between the old style silent film comics he loved, like Oliver Hardy, and the new breed of friendly and realistic children’s show hosts like Sandy Becker. He was himself, he was a normal looking guy, but he was happily wacky and childlike.

Something about that “childlike” streak in him won him the best dramatic role of his career, in the film “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.” He also got a chance to mix humor and pathos as the star of “The Projectionist.” Meanwhile, he continued doing voiceovers, commercials, sitcom work, and just about everything else. Some remember him working opposite Bob Denver, or Dick Van Dyke (doing Ollie to Dick's Stan) or playing second banana to any number of people. He was also first banana to thousands of fans on his Facebook page, and he made special little movies for them, including some glimpses into his love for Laurel and Hardy.

In one video, he turned up at the scene of a Laurel & Hardy comedy, interviewing passersby. The first (and only time) I met Chuck was at a “Sons of the Desert” banquet. Running out of L&H co-stars even then, the guest of honor was Margaret Hamilton. Will Jordan was a featured performer. Well, I was so excited and nervous to actually say hello to Chuck McCann!

I had written a fan letter to Chuck years earlier, and he sent an 8x10 autographed photo.

The banquet hall was just that, with a lot of tables and a dais up front. There was an informal lobby area, the hotel equivalent to a “living room” in ambience, with some over-stuffed chairs, sofas, and some tables with lamps. Chuck was standing near a table that had a lamp on it, and the cord ran across the floor. Naturally, I tripped over it.

Not a big thing. Just a brief little stumble. But Chuck saw it and quipped, “Light on your feet!” Lamp. Light. That’s a joke, son! And coming from Chuck McCann, I knew it was meant “just in fun,” which was pretty close to the name of his kiddie show, "Let's Have Fun."

It's nice when someone you looked up to in childhood is not only nice to you, but turns out to be a truly nice guy. "Officer Joe" Bolton was a nice guy. And I got to know Soupy Sales, who was a nice guy. And Chuck McCann...radiated NICE.

Chuck published a book "Let's Have Fun." You can Google and find a lot about him, and loads of pictures. Here's a vintage one:

Chuck McCann was the ONLY guy who could successfully imitate BOTH Stan and Ollie.

You liked Abbott & Costello. You loved Laurel and Hardy. You liked a lot of celebrities. You loved Chuck McCann.

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The Heartless Internet Trolls? "Please sir...I want...NO MORE"

At some point, when good taste has been orphaned, and when you've seen constant cruelty, and been abused by the violently heartless antics of Internet trolls, you find your inner child piping...

..."Please sir...

I want...

NO MORE.

No more of THIS kind of thing, as posted on FACEBOOK:

One irony here is that you know the Right wing racists hate blacks, wouldn't be friends with blacks, would kill a daughter who dated one, and ONLY find them amusing in the movies, or beating each other up in a boxing ring, or helping win a game for THEIR CITY.

The top image is from "The Green Mile." Only the caption on this mean MEME has him moaning and sobbing because...

...he can't STAND to see a kid protesting against the murder of so many of his classmates, and the insanity of a teenager being allowed to own an AUTOMATIC WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION.

You know that the actor in the film (deceased) would have empathy for young Mr. Hogg, who has been speaking at rallies in front of thousands of young activists and sympathetic elders. Protests around the country have asked merely for sane policies on guns.

A few days ago, Frank Stallone (who?) screamed and spat all over Twitter about what a "coward" this courageous young student really was. A few other D-list celebrities did the same.

And various Internet trolls have put up things like this meme, confident and proud that they are right, and that nobody is going to grab them by the lapels and watch them turn pale and start stammering excuses.

Below this post, the man's friend offered a meme-gif of Mike Tyson laughing hilariously.

Right, Bro, that's wonderful. We're ALL sick and tired of cowardly pussies like Hogg, who get upset just because over a dozen of their friends were blown away, and they COULD HAVE BEEN PART OF THE CARNAGE.

Hey, just because a bunch of other kids are maimed and still in the hospital...let's not have any sympathy for them, or listen to what is bothering them. Let's not be part of the solution. After all, this isn't really a problem. As Don McLean sings, "This is life, this is PRIME TIME, this is livin' in the USA." We've come to expect the nightly "mass killing" story.

I met Mike Tyson once. I read his book cover to cover. I know his co-author, who, these two would be dismayed to learn, is one of them JEWS.

I doubt that Mike Tyson is laughing about the Parkland shooting, or sneering that this kid Hogg, and the other kids traumatized or wounded, should shut their cowardly mouths and accept that going to school is like being in a combat zone.

Sadly, it's very difficult to NOT see this kind of post. If you check out most news websites, they encourage "Comments." Glance at them, and you find moronic memes, heartless trolling, surly insults, and bilious insults hurled from the right to the left and back again. "Rednecks! Skinheads!" "Libtards! Snowflakes!"

WHAT YOU SEE ABOVE...you could go on Facebook right now and find much worse.

WHAT YOU SEE ABOVE...you could go on Twitter right now and find much worse.

This just happened to be something I saw recently that serves as an example. Any type of straw can break the camel's back, and any example of cruelty, nastiness, surly disregard for decency or pigheaded tough-hided evil could be posted in its place. There's PLENTY to choose from.

We live in a world where being "sensitive" is a weakness, and calling someone "insensitive" can be considered a compliment.

"Tolerance?" that's for PUSSIES.

To paraphrase Lenny Bruce, this rape of common sense, humanity, dignity and good will, is being done by monsters who "squirt the poison and leave." They leave satisfied. For some people, the best part of their day is getting off some disturbing insults guaranteed to hurt other people.

The answer, or part of the answer, would be to ignore all this. But that's hard to do. It's very toxic. "Moderating" every Facebook page or Twitter account is impossible, and a violation of "freedom of speech." There are people, good people, who think even the Nazis deserve to be able to spread their message around.

So the response is, "Maybe I should just get my news from that increasingly anorexic limp thing called a NEWSPAPER or MAGAZINE." Yes, aside from a carefully boxed up sty where "letters to the editors" might go, most of them requiring some brain cells to be deemed ok to publish, there are no trolls with their "Comments" and their hilarious and witty MEMES.

But we are relying more and more on social media and the Internet. Everyone has a Twitter or Facebook account, right? They're on Instagram? They blog? They put themselves at risk? They bank on the Internet? They have their hospital records where they are within an ant's crotch of being hacked and shown to anyone and everyone. It gets more and more difficult to avoid seeing the very worst of harsh, cruel, mindless, angry, ignorant and often downright stupid people. It is a sobering thought that "voting" only puts harsh, cruel, mindless, angry, ignorant and often downright stupid people in positions of power.

And so some of us will try to limit the exposure to this twisted, sickening form of radiation that oozes like diarrhea and wafts like farts and by some evil osmosis, seeps through the computer screen.

"Please sir...I want...NO MORE."