SETH ROGEN gives a pass to anti-Semitism and Israel hate and GETS INTO THE PICKLE HE DESERVES

I was "sort of" looking forward to glancing at Seth Rogen's "Fiddler on the Roof meets Sleeper" movie. You know, where a guy who looks exactly like Tevye falls into a pickle vat (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, oy oy oy oy oy oy oy) and like Woody Allen's character in "Sleeper," emerges bewildered in a new era.

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But in promoting the film, he turned up on the Marc Maron podcast, and as you'd expect the talk got around to Judaism and, ha ha ho ho oy oy, what the listeners would or wouldn't find offensive. Like Lenny Bruce wannabe's the idea was to be real daring and controversial, after alerting the audience to watch out, I'm gonna be offensive, ha ha ho ho oy oy.

Seth Rogen, perhaps channeling the opinionatedly idiotic Joe Rogan, seemed to declare that supporting Israel was a "silly" thing to do, because religion is "silly" and so is the idea of a group of like-minded people being in the same place:

"To me it just seems an antiquated thought process. If it is for religious reasons, I don’t agree with it, because I think religion is silly. If it is for truly the preservation of Jewish people, it makes no sense, because again, you don’t keep something you’re trying to preserve all in one place — especially when that place is proven to be pretty volatile, you know?"

No, I don't know. You know?

I don't think Seth Rogen has been beaten up enough. Nor Marc Maron.

Maybe they need to live in Flatbush or Bushwick or some other Bushwack area of Brooklyn where, if you look like a Jew, you just might find yourself lying on the ground with a flattened nose.

Rogen, age 55, grew up in Canada. Not Brooklyn.

JEW LIVES DON'T MATTER in some parts of the world, and don't count on Brooklyn being sympathetic. Not when there are people who will take a stroll a few blocks into a Jewish neighborhood there, JUST to coldcock a Jew.

Mayor De Blasio (aka De Lousio) who got elected by escorting his black wife all over Brooklyn and Queens (not so much Manhattan where there's still a white majority), could care less about Jews. His TV ads featured his black son, and traded in on the idea that his black son would not, if De Blasio was elected, have to worry about "stop and frisk."

The ads didn't seem to offer an assurance to Jews that they wouldn't be subject to "stop and PUNCH."

Wilhelm De Blasio (the man had a German last name which he changed) would much rather NYC be loaded up with Muslims than Jews. Trick or TWEET:

But let's get back to Israel. Let's bypass the fact that despite the amount of Jews in New York (second only to Israel) and how many are centered in Brooklyn, "assmilation" seems to have only given Jews a black eye and a sense of fear. Because they don't matter. They don't riot, so they don't matter.

Seth figures that Israel is stupid for having so many Jews. The Promised Land? What a load of SHIT. Pat Boone, a devout Christian who has offered tours (with his friend, a rabbi) wrote the lyrics to "Exodus." He wrote them on the back of a Christmas card. They begin:

"This land is mine. God gave this land to me."

But Seth is the scholar and historian who knows it all. And to him religion is "silly."

It might be, but don't say that to the Muslims who destroyed the WTC, shot up an Ariana Grande concert, or destroyed a funny bunch of Frenchies in their magazine office. Not everyone this religion is "silly." Six million Jews lost their lives in the Holocuast because Hitler didn't think religion was "silly."

Oh, but let's all watch the next SILLY movie from Seth Rogen. Ha ha ho ho oy oy.

One thing anti-Semites love is when a Jew turns on other Jews, and most of all, betrays Israel. "See, even other JEWS think Israel should be wiped off the map. It's not just the Ayatollah!"

Noam Chomsky has made a living being a Jewish Benedict Arnold, but he isn't really as well known as Seth Rogen. To have Seth Rogen on the side of the anti-Semites is a major victory for the haters.

See? Here's a Jew comedian and he's NOT like Lenny Bruce or Mort Sahl or Mel Brooks. He's anti-Israel! He thinks religion is SILLY. He tells us paranoid Jew-haters exactly what we want to hear:

"I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life!"

Let's repeat that:

"I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life!"

When the ADL came to me, Ronald L. Smith, and asked for my help, I didn't speak that phrase:

"I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life!"

I got them Jerry Seinfeld for their fund-raising dinner.

The next year, I got them Joan Rivers for their fund-raising dinner. As the editor of RAVE, which was the Playbill of comedy clubs, I was glad to make some calls and get these things done, and help supervise the comedy portion of the evening. Joan Rivers said: "Of COURSE I'll do it. We're taking a beating." WE meaning The Jews. That included ISRAEL.

I've had dinner with Jackie Mason, with Mort Sahl, with many of the great Jewish comedians...ones whose fame did not rest on films with titles such as “Sausage Party” and “Knocked Up.”

Mel Brooks, Joan Rivers, Jerry Lewis...these are people from a generation or two before Seth's, who know exactly what anti-Semitism is, and how important a Jewish homeland is. My late friend Brother Theodore was not a religious Jew, but he was BURIED as one. I know. I took a shovel full of dirt and landed it on the plain wooden box he was in, and watched as the cemetery workers filled in the rest. What he told me of the concentration camp he was in — remains vivid in my memory.

Rogen, at some point during the podcast, woefully noted that Israel came into being but...other people were on that land! Can you imagine? The Jews, who have been around longer than the Christians, and longer than the Muslims (that is, if you don't happen to believe crackpots like Malcolm X and Louise Farrakhan), had the NERVE to take back land that was stolen from them.

And Rogen seems equally aghast that Jews would want to live in a "volatile" place where they are constantly being attacked and terrorized by NICE PEOPLE LIKE THE PLO and HAMAS and all kinds of superbly peaceful Palestinians.

In other words, why fight when you should "gather up your things and get thee out?"

Move? To where? A big reason there are "blue eyed Jew devils" in Israel (much to the misery of the Farrakhan and Malcolm types) is that Jews who looked like Kirk Douglas were kicked out of Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, and everywhere else. When they turned up in France, England, Denmark and Sweden, they were attacked and punched and murdered. They had two choices: Israel or America.

America is not a Jewish State. It is not a HOMELAND for the Jews...the wandering tribe of 2000 years. Israel is.

Somehow, all the fine anti-Semites of the world, including Peter Gabriel, Patti Smith, Roger Waters, etc., fixate on Israel as the one country in the world that practices apartheid, won't allow anyone but their own, and is totally unwilling to compromise. The Palestinians? Lovely. They've put together peace plans galore that are very fair. (YEAH?) And as for North Korea, China, Boko Haram of Nigeria, Turkey, Syria, and all the other hot spots of the world, and that includes the border between England and Ireland...meh. No problem. Ethnic cleansing in Russia? Never heard of it. Coptic Christians being burned out of their churches in Egypt? Who cares. The ONLY thing that bothers so many people is ISRAEL. What a coincidence. That's where the Jews are.

Seth Rogen is so concerned that Palestinians owned Israel? There are a lot of historians who say it does NOT belong to the Palestinians.

Seth Rogan lives in America, and that land was owned by the Native Americans. NO question about that. He's not moving, is he?

Fortunately there's been SOME backlash against Seth Rogen and other misinformed Jews ready to join Noam Chomsky in helping Jews all over the world get beaten up and killed. Oh, and after a Jew is dead, there is no rest because a tombstone can be desecrated.

If you happen to get the Weisenthal Center reports, you know that Jews continue to be harassed and brutalized. In Sweden, of all places, a Jewish female doctor was harassed until she had to flee for her life. "Oh, that's just ONE incident..." The Weisenthal news magazine would be the size of an unabridged dictionary if it listed all the incidents of anti-Semitism in the world. It's increased, not decreased.

The number of Nazi flags being waved, the number of crude cartoons being circulated, the number of death threats on the Internet...all on the rise.

Meanwhile Seth Rogen seems to be figuring that there are enough second, third and fourth generation Jews, half-Jews, one-fourth Jews, and "I'm not religious" Jews around...that they'll always want to see his films and be very reasonable about the right to his opinion, and/or that somebody's opinion has nothing to do with his art.

He's certainly not figuring that people "of color" are going to rush to see his Tevya Does Sleeper movie.

Seth reminds me of a Woody Allen line about a Jew who was not Orthodox, not Conservative but "reformed. VERY reformed. A nazi."

When people ask me about Israel, I tell them my own reasonable point of view: The Israelis are not saints. They are, in fact, pretty similar in looks and attitude to the Palestinians and to most of the others in the Middle East. They'll take land if they can grab it. They have a sense of entitlement. But they are NOT as nasty as to burn down churches, throw gays off roofs, circumcise women, or refuse to let somebody who isn't of their relgion play in a damn tennis tournament. If there's a conflict between Israel and Palestine, don't take sides any more rigidly than you would if it was England vs Ireland. There's plenty of room for negotiation and the issue isn't a simple "get out, you have no right to live there."

The National Review, among others, wasn't thrilled with Rogens remarks and you can read all about it:

Why Seth Rogen's Anti-Israel Rant Matters And in case you're having link problems, here's a chunk of it:

Here's the last paragraph from The Jerusalem Post:

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"Oh that Madonna, she's always trying to shock us," David Letterman used to say.

Right. The blasphemy. Endorsing promiscuity. The deliberate vulgarity on his show that made Dave shake his head. Not to mention her awful aerobic dancing, failed relationships and marriages, and increasingly lousy music and lyrics. So Lady Fake Eyepatch isn't seeing too clearly on the Covid issue? Watta surprise.

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Trader Joe Caves - Don't Expect "TRADER JEW'S GEFILTE FISH"

And you thought Howe's Cavern was a massive cave.

How many MILLIONS of people shop at Trader Joe? MILLIONS! The stores are always packed. Many people only WISH there was a Trader Joe in the neighborhood...or MORE than one, as the lines are SO FUCKING LONG.

But hey hey hey, a few thousand twerps with nothing better to do than make an online petition, actually got this company to twitter, quiver, and drop to one knee.

Because, Lord Knows, they be RACIST. Why, LOOK AT THIS! The Trader Joe brand of TACO is affectionately called TRADER JOSE:

Hay-SOOOS CHRIST.

What could be more horribly STEREOTYPICAL and DEGRADING to MEXICANS?

Maybe THIS guy, Guillermo Rodriguez?

Ya think maybe GUILLERMO is to Mexicans what WILLIE BEST is to Blacks?

But let's not get Jimmy Kimmel into any more trouble than he's in. Just last week everyone wanted to CANCEL him because a zillion years ago he blacked up to play a black celebrity in some dopey sketch, and what he did before everybody got WOKE almost got him fired.

Back to Trader Joe.

OK, "NO WAY JOSE," you can't use Trader Jose on a product anymore.

And Trader Giotto.

Instead of giving TRADER JOE's credit for IMPORTING FROM ITALY and offering AUTHENTIC ITALIAN CUISINE, the company gets a thousand clowns to whine and complain.

Take a look at these products. The average stupid supermarket gives you some terrible generic pasta sauces and who the hell knows what CORPORATION owns Ronzoni or Ragu or Chef Boy-ar-Dee anymore? Certainly NOT Italians, certainly NOT the Italians that Trader Joe's works with and economically supports.

The customers at Trader Joe's all over the country are getting REAL Italian products made in Italy, and a REAL variety of sauces, and yet a thousand clowns complain and can feel GOOD about themselves for intimidating a company and making stores all the more paranoid about conforming to the scolds of idiots.

I remember when these joints first opened, that a lot of ethnic food was available...that COULD NOT BE FOUND in other supermarkets. There was exotic Asian stuff. Exotic Latin stuff. Exotic Italian stuff.

It seemed that when they put "Trader Giotto" on the label of some pasta, they were bowing to their Italian friends. As in, "We're not Italian, but we wish we were." and "We respect that the Italian name for Joe is GIOTTO, so we are CHANGING our name as a TRIBUTE."

Suddenly, some bunch of limp-wristed pussified pouty Social-Disease Warriors in Seattle or wherever, decide to go after Trader Joe? With a petition? With nothing better to do? And Trader Joe CAVES?

What kind of message does that send? That anyone at any time had better drop to one knee because a bunch of pin-heads are offended about something?

Oh, not offended by child labor in China, by slavery in North Korea, or Boko Haram raping and killing other blacks because they're Christian and not MUSLIM. Nah. Be offended about a box of macaroni.

Do you think in this sleepy version of "WOKE" culture, Julia Child would still be on the air? Maybe NOT. She was "The French Chef" but she was not FRENCH. She admired French cooking and was great at it, and was advocating it to other Americans who were intimidated or unfamiliar with the cuisine. But DAMN, the show was taped in Boston and not in Paris, and SAPRISTI, let's repeat, she was NOT FRENCH. And only FRENCH PEOPLE can make FRENCH FOOD, and SAPRISTI, maybe we should reach the State of Woke when ONLY FRENCH PEOPLE CAN EAT FRENCH FOOD.

God damn.

I was counting on Trader Jew's Gefilte Fish. With some Trader Jew's Horse Radish to kill the stink of the fish.

Oh, stop right there. Let's have a petition! HORSE RADISH does not contain any HORSES.

This is a damn outrage. It's false advertising. Not only is TRADER JOE "RACIST" but any company that makes Horse Radish is NOT WOKE and is MALICIOUS and deliberately DEVIANT and DEVIOUS and against animal rights!

DAMN RIGHT.

I also was figuring on Trader Jerk's Beef Jerky, but again, as the world deteriorates, as disease takes over, as North Korea and Russia and Iran and Iraq and Pakitan threaten nuclear destruction...

....let's worry that Jerks will be offended at inauthentic jerk sauce.

Trader Joe's insists it's been WOKE for a while, just a little sleepy. They've been aware of how HORRIBLY RACIST they are, and I guess aside from trying to eliminate as many white people from working in their stores, they've held plenty of meetings on how to get authentic Italians, Mexicans and Arabs to re-design the boxes for the next shipments of ethnic foods.

How...much...WORSE...will it get?

You can see, can't you, the day when Trader Joe's TACOS will be pulled from the shelves because the Tacos were made in China, or were deemed too mild to actually be Mexican tacos? That only Latina cashiers should be processing customers who buy the politically correct TRADER JOE'S TACOS?

I'm glad we won't be seeing Traitor Joe's frozen EGGS BENEDICT ARNOLD.

I hope they pull their ALPHABET SOUP off the shelves, lest they offend and confuse dyslexics.

Rather than SAVE the word RACIST for actually RACISTS who are currently harassing Jews, blocking immigration, keeping Asians in Chinatown, refusing to hire blacks, or taking pot shots at anyone in a turban...let's fling it at a Yuppie supermarket chain...one that has enough problems keeping crackpot white people from wandering around without a Covid mask on.

The petition and the worry about the politically correct use of "JOE" on a box cover is a Trader JOKE.

"Woody Allen Could Care Less" or Don't Read Twitter Assholes

A friend of mine has, again, threatened "to say goodbye to Twitter."

How many have said the same thing? It's like chocolate and cigarettes. It's bad for you.

Who are on Twitter? Mostly unemployed crackpots with too much time on their hands.

And a President who can't stop with opinionated insults and moronic statements -- as if he has to compete with Piers Morgan and Kanye West.

Somehow, in glancing at the latest bilge, I saw THIS bit of pointless gripe-lunacy:

Huh? Like the UFO nuts, there are morons who can't shut the fuck up about Woody Allen.

He doesn't have to even be in the news. If somebody ELSE is in the news for a sex scandal, go ahead, that's your cue, Pea Brain, do a "what about Woody Allen!"

If somebody is ranting their anti-Semitic crap, THAT is a good excuse, too. Who knows what set this idiot off a few days ago.

All you can do is correct the blatant lies if you're THAT pissed off about it, but really, "you can't cure stupid." Bigots will never stop, or as we say while adjusting our pants around our thighs, "Haters be hating."

No, asshole, Woody Allen did NOT adopt a child from Asia.

That was Mia Farrow. Do you have to have your head THAT far up your ass to not know that?

Most anyone with even a vague knowledge of the Woody-Mia saga, and any command of the English language, knows that Farrow was an adopt-a-kid compulsive. Same as Angelina Jolie and Madonna. Oh, I feel like getting another kid. What color can I pick out this time?

By the time Woody met Mia, Soon-Ye was already part of a daunting brood that he AVOIDED.

So this yahoo not only insists Woody adopted an Asian girl to have sex with, but he was a Svengali who somehow got her to marry him. And force her to adopt two girls who have turned out perfectly? Do you think Mia Farrow ever had a longer-lasting relationship than Woody's had with Soon-Yi?

Never mind, No Mind.

Then he equates Woody with somebody who pisses on multiple women (some underage) for fun, and someone accused of using date rape drugs on multiple women.

Somehow, it's Oprah's fault for not prosecuting Woody Allen. Punchline: "Pedophile right in your face."

And as usual with Twitter, stupidity right in your face.

Just another reminder that there are millions of absolutely dimwitted wastes of space on the planet, and they own computers and have Twitter accounts.

I wondered what ELSE this "DZUNGLE" idiot was up to, and gee, it turns out English is a second language:

And yes, let's take him seriously about that Chinese conspiracy to cause a worldwide epidemic JUST to sell paper masks. Go ahead, share something bright from another dim bulb:

Nice one, Dung Heap.

Now, Woody Allen's said in recent interviews that he "could care less," about morons who will NEVER believe him and instead think Mia Farrow is some kind of stable individual incapable of a vindictive lie.

He ignores social media, and will go back to making low-view cult movies as soon as Covid-19 allows.

He might be glad to know his fans pause to scold and correct idiots, but I doubt if he'd tell them that their outrage and annoyance is going to do any good. Better to GET OFF TWITTER and, like death, just try not to think about the number of slanderous self-righteous scuzzes and saps out there, and how many deranged have-nots are not only lacking fame and fortune and hate anyone who has either, but have a shortage of brain cells.

My father used to say that the most dangerous people "are religious fanatics. You can't reason with them."

He never knew about people with Twitter accounts.

Nigga, IMMA...Cosby yo' ASS? Whut? Y'all be REAL on Bill Cosby Pudding Pops Ol Rapey Ass

Twitter is like your old neighborhood. Once it was ok, but it got taken over by assholes.

Some of your friends still live around there, and so you CAREFULLY try to visit them without getting your tires slashed or your peace of mind destroyed.

I've discovered you can BLOCK words and names on Twitter. You don't have to see anything about such worthless icons as the Kardashians or Kanye. You don't have to read drivel about UFO's. You can be blissfully ignorant on the latest news about Bieber or Miley or whether they took down a statue of Jefferson or Hamilton or Woodrow Wilson to replace it with one of Tupac.

But you do get CAUGHT by what's "trending." If it's the name of an older celebrity, you think: "Flash...this guy is DEAD." But it's usually just enough assholes (a few thousand apparently) wishing the star a Happy Birthday, along with some well-meaning remark like "I hope you stay alive for many more years."

Among the comments and replies? Of course: "Thought he was dead!"

The other day:

BILL COSBY.

Oh, NOW what. NOW what? Thanks to the hanging judge, Cosby is officially a "violent sexual predator," meaning he won't get out of jail even if he's risking Death-by-Covid.

The man is legally blind, uses a wheelchair, needs help getting his daily medicines, is over 80 years old, but some asshole of a judge in Philadelphia figures this man is a "violent sexual predator" and if he isn't locked up while muggers half his age are let loose, along with every type of repeat-offending burglar, pickpocket and diseased whore, SOMETHING is going to happen.

WHAT exactly? Cosby's case was front page news everywhere. It's not likely that any woman is going to come to his home, where he is on HOUSE ARREST, and share a drugged drink with him.

BILL COSBY.

OK, what the hell is going on? Is he dead?

It turns out that for some reason, the mental case called Kanye West suddenly TWEETED a statement about NBC somehow being involved in the downfall of Cosby.

No, Kanye didn't tell his porn-video wife, the one who can't stop posing naked or in her underwear, to go to her pal Donald Trump and get a pardon for Cos. No, he goes on TWITTER.

The response was scorn and ridicule.

Some of it was to the point.

Most of it is almost as ridiculous as what Kanye wrote.

Somebody uses "remedial" and "argument" but then throws in "niggas."

Cosby would wonder why after all that he and so many black leaders and educators have said about the word, people still use it. Carlin said that people who curse by saying "oh shoot" are fooling themselves: "Shoot is SHIT with two o's." And "nigga" is "nigger.' Using it because it's yours, like gays calling themselves "queer," is still an insult. Cosby rose above that kind of thing by, strength of will, ignoring it. I doubt Anderson Cooper calls himself "queer" and writes about "queer culture" rather than "gay culture" or "homosexual culture." What's next, using "fagga?"

At one time, Sinatra and Dean Martin would call each other "wop" on stage. They got over it. Because it was stupid. Just don't use stupid words, and consider those who do...to be stupid.

That could be a lesson from the Cosby teaching guide -- the Jesse Jackson guide, the Dr. King guide, the Oprah guide...for people who would care to be dignified.

As is TOO OFTEN the case, writing a Tweet is never good enough -- not when you can shove a REACTION MEME in everyone's face, too.

You know, that was always a problem with letters to the editor in the New York Times. NO PHOTOS.

The above illiterately tells "yall" that you are "NOT gonna...act like Bill Cosby didn't drugged" anyone.

Fortunately, Bill Cosby FAILED in some 30 years of trying to prove blacks can earn a PhD and use the English language properly. How much better YALL are to proudly use slang, and GONNA, and do the equivalent of wearing your pants around your ankles or twerk on the subway...use the worst grammar possible.

Somehow, Blacks seem to think that YALL is all right, y'all. While they rant about anything that has to do with the South and the Civil War and the Confederacy and Slavery...somehow y'all is exempt. There's not the least waft of KKK to it. Not the least inference that it was used by evil sheriffs to blacks on chain gangs.

It's right up there with yowza. That's also fine. "Did you see the new Marvel Comic Book movie? Yowza! What special effects!

Let's ignore the truth about YOWZA, which is that it makes fun of the black slaves who cried out "Yessir" every time they were whipped and ordered to perform the most degrading of tasks.

Shel Silverstein wrote and sang a song about how black people were "tired of saying YOWZA," and were standing up for their rights. It was around the time that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the eventual Dr. William H. Cosby Jr. PhD were talking about black dignity.

Somehow Y'ALL and YOWZAH are ok, but go ahead, tear down the statues of Dr. Sims in Central Park and revile Francis Scott Key, not on scholarship but because of somebody's flame-throwing torch-waving tweet, or the twisted and slanted report of an attention-seeking politician or columnist. It's always black and white, and no shades of gray, either.

Tweets that simply said that Kanye was nuts -- again -- sure.

Tweets that reminded him that Cosby is a convict and NBC had nothing to with that -- fine.

An overwhelming percentage of people believe that even if the case for which he was convicted was a set-up (the woman had been paid off, and a district attorney assured both parties that all testimony was sealed), there were at least a dozen incidents of date-rape via drugs. Perhaps no violent rapes, but taking advantage of women just the same. Like getting Capone on tax evasion, or O.J. Simpson on using force to get back stolen memorabilia, most were not too upset that Cosby got sentenced.

What about THIS?

It's troubling, the amount of illiterate venom that comes Cosby's way, almost all of it from Blacks under 40, who only see Cosby as Mr. Poundcake Speech...the old fuddy-duddy Uncle Tom who complained that his people needed to value an education, and not wear their pants around their thighs. P. Diddy and Jay-Z and Steve Harvey...they wear THEIR pants around their thighs?

But Cosby was older, and he had the NERVE to go against the odds and instead of Sanford in a junkyard, or a lot of disfunctional families hurling insults at each other, he created a "wholesome" sitcom at a time when many pundits thought he was washed up and his show wouldn't last 13 weeks.

His show became a hit, but an undercurrent of resentment brewed: here was a sell-out family that doesn't talk ghetto and dresses well, and acts like any other middle-class bunch would act. How crazy is THAT? Assimilation? How can one have ethnic pride in THAT?

He was also the sell-out telling people to buy Jell-o Pudding y'all, when everybody KNOWS that Krispy Kreme Donuts are much better for you. (The number of times Krispy Kreme trends on Twitter because they're having a one-day sale....Christ...)

By the time his sitcom was in re-runs, and he was slow-talking his ponderous prose about dignity and responsibility, a new generation was around. And pissed off. And ignorant of Cosby's place in Black history.

Let's take another look at this all-too typical slam. Dis. Snap. Unda-da-bus-throw.

Does this person have any idea what Cosby accomplished before his self-caused downfall? If people solemnly tell you that "Mussolini got the trains to run on time," or that Chairman Mao made China powerful, do NOT disparage the good works of Bill Cosby, or what he fought for in the areas of civil rights and education.

Why did I write the book on Cosby? The one school kids often had to read as an assignment? The library source for anyone wondering about where he came from and all his career achievements leading up to "The Cosby Show?"

I wrote it because I was a fan of his comedy albums -- he had 5 million selling Gold albums in a row -- and everyone was in awe of his story-telling style. Groucho Marx was one of those who praised him constantly. I wanted to know how Cosby created that style, at a time of Dick Gregory's racial humor and Redd Foxx's underground dirty album sales.

I went back to talk to his early managers, and discovered how much self-control and how much suppressed anger was involved in Cosby refusing to do black jokes. If Warners Bros. label mate Bob Newhart was just offering funny monologues, what tremendous equality if Cosby could do that, too. To just be accepted as a COMEDIAN. That was a tremendous thing. Take me for what I am: a funny guy.

This was 1963, 1964, when there was so much stereotyping in all areas. What, a "lady doctor?" "What's that last name? Polish or something? Are you Jewish? Oy oy! Ha ha." "What, Cassius Clay is now Muhammad Ali??"

I listened to those albums over and over, like hearing favorite bedtime stories.

In the midst of his recording career, Cosby was offered "I Spy." He was the Jackie Robinson of TV. Only, imagine if Jackie Robinson had been offered a football contract. Jackie: "I'm a baseball player. Sign me to the Dodgers. Why are you signing me to something I don't know anything about?"

Cosby was NOT an actor. He knew nothing about memorizing lines, staying on a mark, or anything else. Now he was in a pressure situation that involved an entire race. Fail, and it's a sign blacks are not ready to be co-starring in TV dramas...fail, and it won't just be a few Southern TV stations proud of NOT carrying the series, it'll be a sign that using blacks on TV is going to be a financial loss every time..."

You know what happened. Co-star Robert Culp became a great friend of Bill's, and Bill won Emmy awards for the show, and it broke plenty of ice.

Cosby was championing education. He was working with PBS. He was becoming a familiar and friendly black face on TV commercials. He was doing so much to project an image of equality and intelligence. Yes, it's a terrible tragedy that his personal life was so bizarre, but by the time anyone knew about it (including me) there was Oprah and Denzel Washington and so many other role models.

Even back in the 70's there were people who simply felt that assimilation was bad. Everyone should be proud of their heritage, to the point of keeping accents, dressing ethnic, and refusing to become mainstream. Richard Pryor eclipsed Cosby as the important black stand-up comedian, and his act was...well, what WAS the name of his first hit album? "That NIGGER'S Crazy." Was that a fluke? No, soon after: "Bicentennial Nigger."

There's always been a debate over the word, and Pryor himself flip-flopped on it. Then came "Nigga." Go figga.

Read that Tweet. That's what Cosby was against. His generation was against it, and a significant number of younger people were, too. But plenty saw it as a matter of defiant pride to call each other "Nigga," and to invent the language of rap, and to seize on Southern bigot terms like "Y'all" and to create "ebonics." Hell, Whitey, "you a racist! You be bad! Not just you, but all of y'all!"

And so there were Tweets, too many, lapsing into this "proud" black dialect, as if Cosby and Oprah are Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima, and ignorance is something to be proud of instead.

"Niggas act..." what IS that? Why promote that?

"...like Bill Cosby died on the cross for they ass."

Can't say "for their ass," because that's the white man's language? Good grammar is betraying being black?

"I will never understand."

Hopefully, that's not going to be the case. As we've wobbled through affirmative action, and what is or isn't politically correct, and who should get special favors and for how long, we will come back to what was good about Bill Cosby -- his humor, his respect for education, his belief in family, and so much more. We will accept he was a very, very flawed human and did not always practice what he preached.

We will understand that doing research just might tell us Dr. Sims was not evil, that our founding fathers were as ignorant about slavery as the Pharoahs who imprisoned the Jews, or the Danish colonizing Latin countries or the Dutch and British and French thinking that the Africans and Native Americans were lesser people, or Boko Haram torturing Nigerian women today.

We will all take pride in our heritage and others will also respect who we are, so that idiot words like Nigga and Wop and Queer and Heeb are not spoken just to provoke and jab back at idiots. There will always be some idiots out there, but there numbers are decreasing. Cosby did his part when his clean, family style influenced a generation of comedians, and his TV commercials and TV shows proved that a minority could sell to a majority.

Cosby never "died on the cross," no, but he died hundreds of times on small stages in Philadelphia and New York City perfecting a groundbreaking style of comedy, and he went through intense pressure making "I Spy" a hit, and he put himself on the line for every racist and nutjob who considered him another uppity Dr. King whose place belonged six feet under. All of that was difficult, and more. Donating millions and millions to black colleges, and promoting black artists...he did that, too. Nobody is condoning or minimizing the pain and humiliation he caused, but neither should anyone ignore or be ignorant of the good he contributed.

As his biographer, I experienced some bizarre moments of racism and lethal ignorance, which gave me a slight, slight fraction of an idea of what Bill went through.

Just two examples. In a very cultured setting, a sophisticated woman came up to me and asked, "And what do YOU do..." "I'm a writer," I said. "Oh, what kind of things do you write?" "Books on comedy, reference books...I wrote a biography of Bill Cosby." "Oh. Can he read?"

That stopped me. Stopped me cold. I did not expect ignorance and racism from this sell-spoken woman. We've all experienced coarseness, rudeness, perhaps nasty comments on our race, religion or looks, but usually you can literally SEE it coming. The blithe way this women doubted that William H. Cosby Jr. PhD could even read...

The other incident, as I could give you dozens but this has already stretched too long. I opened up what I thought was a fan letter. It came to me c/o the book company, after all. It was a man urging me to do something about Bill Cosby. As his biographer, I had to know that Cosby had special powers, so please, make him stop. This man insisted over several hand-written pages that Cosby was torturing him via thought control, disrupting his sleep, creating noises in his head...."

Of all people to accuse. The guy with the hit family sitcom? That's when this letter arrived...when my book was first published, not the second or third time. (Cosby: "You put out another edition of the book? You keep revising it!" Me: "You've done new TV shows and movies!")

You can imagine the people waiting for Cosby at the stage door after a show...the kind of letters and threats he got while trying to provide inoffensive comedy routines and escapist spy-adventures on records and on TV.

"Nigga act like Bill Cosby died on the cross for they ass. I will never understand."

We may never understand what was behind the sense of entitlement and the egotism and the power games that involved the date rape drugs. We may not even fully be aware of what, if any, strange behavior was going on in determining when to cancel one of Bill's TV shows, or when NOT to hire him for a movie. But just as the historians will tell you what good things Francis Scott Key did and Dr. Sims did, so it is with Cosby.

Anyone bother to understand that those Jell-o ads that 20-somethings make fun of, were pioneering? That they paved the way for using a minority to sell to a majority? That this was a GOOD thing?

Cosby wasn't just some geezer who once had a sitcom and was ruining the fun by shaming sidewalk assholes who had no job but could wear their pants on their thighs. To resent somebody for scolding you for not being adult is understandable, but to deny that the person is right? THAT is something hard to understand.

It's always a good idea to go to a library once in a while. It's never a sign of intelligence to scoff, "that was before my time," and leave it at that. Perhaps "I Spy" and those old records and old speeches aren't as important as watching a 3D movie or listening to rap or playing video games, but at least know about that stuff.

Cat Stevens - 72nd Birthday - Celebrate a Lethal Asshole

On Twitter, the social media site for morons, Cat Stevens is trending.

Good for Cat Stevens, or Yusuf, or Giorgio, or whatever he wants to call himself. Good for his mewly, tremble-lipped fans (mostly female and gay). And how fortunate that none of his acolytes had the wrist-strength to actually follow Cat's advice and stab Rushdie, behead him, or whatever it is that followers of Islam do to people who say or write things they don't agree with.

Stevens was a has-been in 1989, an obscure scholarly fellow dressed in a beanie, who had turned his back on such horrible things as soft rock music.

February 21 1989. He's now Yusuf Islam, and giving a lecture on Islam. Hey, why not join this fine, fine religion? Why not learn more about how peaceful it is?

He was asked about the spindly, nasty King of Islam or whatever you want to call him, the bearded prophet of all things Holy, and representative of Allah on Earth. You may remember. The guy who was taking American hostages? Wasn't that him? The guy who wanted to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth? The guy who insisted that anyone not believing as he does, is a heathen and a sub-species? Some SHIT like that?

He was definitely the guy who declared that the writings of Salman Rushdie were a blasphemy punishable by DEATH. You see, this fine, fine religion of peace endorses "FATWA." Somehow not too many religions do. To quote William Shatner in a satiric rap, "What about the men who say 'Do as I do. Believe in what I say, for your own good, or I'll kill you!' I can't get behind that!

Guess who COULD get behind that?

Mr. "Peace Train" that's who.

Someone asked if, in endorsing this religion and turning his back on the name "Cat Stevens," he believed everything his Ayatollah done tol' him. Like Salman Rushdie, an author with possibly more literary skills than he, should be put to death for writing a book?

"He must be killed. The Qur'an makes it clear – if someone defames the prophet, then he must die."

End of sentence. End of Rushdie.

Rushdie went into hiding, and really, for quite a long time, and perhaps even now, he's lived with a slightly more vivid version of "we're all gonna die" than most. Not everyone has to worry that a safe is going to fall on their heads or they'll be run over by a Mister Softee truck. Or that one of the many violent fanatics of Islam will decide that instead of blowing up an Ariana Grande concert or the Boston Marathon, they'll just stalk Rushdie and put an end to him.

This is SERIOUS shit, Mr. Yusuf. Christ, (excuse me), somebody could've killed Rushdie in 1989, and said "Cat Stevens said to do it."

Can you imagine? Stevens would've said, "Who is Cat Stevens? That's not me."

OK, he could've said, "Yes, I'm Yusuf Islam. I said I believe in an old book written before there was toilet paper, microscopes, or we learned that the clouds do not contain angels. Sorry about Rushdie, but if it's in the book, it's in the book. It's really too bad he had to be blasphemous and WRITE SOMETHING MY PEOPLE DIDN'T LIKE."

As you often find with religious fanatics, Cat Yusuf is in his own bubble. On his website:

"I never called for the death of Salman Rushdie; nor backed the Fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini—and still don’t. The book itself destroyed the harmony between peoples and created an unnecessary international crisis."

He merely said: ""He must be killed. The Qur'an makes it clear – if someone defames the prophet, then he must die."

A decade later, in a Rolling Stone interview, he muttered:

"I'm very sad that this seems to be the Number 1 question people want to discuss. I had nothing to do with the issue other than what the media created."

You remember the Nazi excuse? "We ere just following orders?" Here's Cat Stevens' excuse:

"I was innocently drawn into the whole controversy....At a lecture, back in 1989, I was asked a question about blasphemy according to Islamic Law, I simply repeated the legal view according to my limited knowledge of the Scriptural texts, based directly on historical commentaries of the Qur'an. The next day the newspaper headlines read, "Cat Says, Kill Rushdie." I was abhorred, but what could I do? I was a new Muslim. If you ask a Bible student to quote the legal punishment of a person who commits blasphemy in the Bible, he would be dishonest if he didn't mention Leviticus 24:16."

See? He had a "limited knowledge" of his religion. Except he was advocating murder. You know, if you declare that somebody should be killed, you might be guilty of a crime. Even Facebook and Twitter will throw you off if you declare you think somebody should be killed.

Despite Islamic law, the general law in the world is you DO NOT KILL SOMEBODY FOR WRITING A BOOK.

Aw, forgive and forget. He's really not Yusuf. He's Cat Stevens.

Cat. Cool Cat. He wrote garbage songs like "I Love My Dog." He wrote condescending pedophiliac love songs like: "Oooh baby it's a wild world. I'll always remember you as a CHILD, GIRL."

I remember in a college English class, a Cat Stevens acolyte timidly approaches my teacher, Diane Fortuna, with a copy of "Teat for the Tillerman," or whatever it was called.

"This man is a great poet, I think," said the acolyte.

Prof. Fortuna read some of the lyrics. "He's not a poet," she said. She pretty much dismissed him as a level below a Hallmark Card writer.

Back then, I did think that despite his moronic singing style, which included soft crooning and then raspy frustration, one or two of his items weren't too bad. "Sad Lisa" was one. Something about a girl who cried on his shirt: "She must be hurt very badly. What's making you sadly?"

I dunno, maybe she was crying because some Islamic asshole declared a fatwa on her father.

Damn, she was wetting one of those puffy-sleeve shirts of his, made out of pure silk? She MUST be hurt very badly...rock stars throw groupies like that into the hallway.

Aw, forgive and forget. Remember? That's what Jon Stewart did, and you don't get any more sanctimonious than Jon. The man is a walking bundle of sensitive and bearded nerve-endings. He was part of a rally to (get this) "Restore Sanity in Washington D.C.," and hired Cat Stevens to be there. Yes, Cat Stevens, Mr. Sanity himself, the guy who told the WORLD, not Washington D.C., that if an old religious nutjob declares a man must die, he must DIE.

Rushdie? He told Stewart: "he's not a good guy. It may be that he once sang 'Peace Train'... but he hasn't been Cat Stevens for a long time, you know. He's a different guy now."

To his credit, Jon listened: "I said, 'look, I'm sorry you're upset, but I'm sure the guy isn't really like that. Let me talk to him." Islam said the whole thing was a "misunderstanding", but added "although why do you have to insult the Prophet?" We get into a whole conversation, and it becomes very clear to me that he is straddling two worlds in a very difficult way, and it broke my heart a little bit. I wish I had known (about the 1989 remark)...because that to me is a deal breaker. Death for free speech is a deal breaker."

But Happy Birthday Giorgio-Cat-Yusuf anyway. I'll always remember you like a child, girl.

OH. Another ROYAL WEDDING. Beatrice...WHO??

Who in the world is "Princess Beatrice?" I thought that was the name of a phone or a vacuum cleaner or a douche.

Who is Edoardo Snotti or whatever his name is? Did either take a college course in running a government? No, all they need to do is ride on royal pumpkins through the streets of Grimsby, waving to the coarse, obese tattooed bints who actually believe "them's better 'n me. Gawd luv 'em and save 'em."

Say something nice about the French: they invented the guillotine and ended the ridiculous excesses of Marie Antoinette and other "blue bloods" who stained red the basket that caught their heads.

It is almost quaint that at a time when Blacks are rioting and looting, and Muslims are blowing up rock concerts and marathon races, that England continues to stubbornly refuse to enter the 21st Century. What massive revolution are they waiting for? Maybe that's why Meghan and her Brillo-headed Nazi hubby Harry moved to California? They didn't want to be marched out into the street?

It is certainly enough of an outrage the way most every government wastes tax money. England offers official portraits of weddings that say: "we're better than you, so sigh over our gowns and waistcoats and wish us only the best."

Prince Andrew the Pedophile Pervert. There's another waste of UK money. Then we have the absurdity of woolly-haired Prince Harry the Nazi and his Kardashian-esque gold-digging bride. And on and on. It's all tolerated. Prince Andrew? The Royals put up a stiff upper lip in ignoring his wretched excesses, and absurd American magazines (of the not-yet-extinct "Town and Country" and "New Yorker" variety) and dry newspapers turn their noses up to try and avoid the stink, and to not see the outrage.

The N.Y. Times (aka the Gray Lady) in an article updated on January 27, 2020 is still hoping that, yes, while Prince Andrew is a BIT of a rotter, all will be forgot and never brought to mind:

"The British monarchy has survived public crises before -- religious schisms, revolutions, murderous kings — but....Prince Andrew...struggled to defend himself as he talked about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein..." Struggled, but wasn't arrested, Thank God. God Save the Prince!

The inference is that the MONARCHY will SURVIVE, and really, all it takes is a lovely royal wedding (commoners not invited of course) to put things right. A psychiatrist might, MIGHT, be able to explain why people who apparently don't believe in Jesus Christ, don't believe in themselves, don't believe in the long list that John Lennon decried, turn their lonely eyes to this Princess Beatrice (as they did to Kate and Meghan) with the naive fervency with which a child observes her birthday cake.

Indeed, it has always been that way. I am a humble student of the good side of British culture, and I even know the traditional folk songs and music hall ballads. I know many by heart. One of them "The Bastard King of England," describes a merry wedding, the kind that the foolish British public (and fools around the world) adore so much. After describing social diseases and bisexuality (British homosexual infects potential suitor of the lady the King would like to marry) it ends this way:

"They had a royal wedding.
All his subjects wished him well.
The dancers danced without their pants
and so did the king as well.
His only outer garment
was a dirty yellow shirt
with which he tried to hide his hide
but he couldn't hide the dirt.
He was dirty and lousy and full of fleas
but he had his women by twos and threes -
God Bless the Bastard King of England!"

What can we say about Beatrice? That her hygiene may be better? Is that worth the millions that she and her Royals squander as they preserve the notion of their superiority? Ah, there's a SLIGHT nod to the real world. There's some social distancing between Beatrice and her fop, and the Queen and hers.

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Reverse Racism? Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews FIRED and Tyra Banks HIRED

Yes, I know television.

I remember when "Rural" became a dirty word. Do you? CBS, wanting an urban image, massacred their hit shows and stars: Red Skelton gone. "Green Acres" gone. "Petticoat Junction" and "Beverly Hillbillies" gone.

CBS didn't hide their motive. They admitted to following a new word: DEMOGRAPHICS.

You might have hit shows, but what if they attract older viewers? Rural viewers? You'd THINK that there'd be enough sponsors (Homer & Jethro were shilling corn flakes!) to sate CBS, but heckfire, NOPE NOPE NOPE.

Ageism became "a thing," as young illiterate Millennials would call it.

It's not even "a thing" to be embarrassed about. Come right out and say YOU'RE TOO OLD. Or "You're too rural." Don't worry about old people rioting and looting. Nobody came up from Georgia to destroy the Santa Monica promenade stores and swipe all those designer sunglasses and Gucci handbags.

Today's "thing" is BLACK LIVES MATTER, and ONLY BLACK LIVES MATTER. You put "ALL LIVES MATTER" on a t-shirt and Walmart won't even sell it. (It's not a free ocuntry, and it's not about free enterprise, and it's not about a slogan that could easily be intended the way JESUS would intend it -- to embrace ALL).

What have we here?

It didn't take more than a day to learn of the "new creative direction" ABC had in mind. FADE WHITEY to BLACK.

The New York Daily News made it seem pretty innocuous. Bergeron and Andrews weren't FIRED. They quit, right? "EXIT." They just headed for the "EXIT" sign of their own free will, because middle-aged white people can easily get employed these days.

The entertainment world, contrary to what some BLM sulkers think, has always been keen to show how liberal they are. Find a local TV news show where there's no mix of black and white and male and female. You've got an anchor, a sports jerk and a weather person? At least ONE of them is going to be black and ONE of them is going to be female. In a big city, there will be two anchors, and...oh, here in New York the most successful news show for many many years was NBC's combination of white Chuck Scarborough and BLACK FEMALE Sue Simmons.

You're gonna have a white talk show host? Well, Mr. Colbert, Mr. Fallon, Miss Corden, you're gonna have a BLACK band leader aren't you? As for Mr. Kimmel, he hired his friend's father, but at least he was Latino.

An old quiz show gets a re-boot? Maybe the original host was a memorable white guy, but the NEW host is gonna be a black guy. "America's Got Talent" went from Jerry Springer (of all people) to a succession of blacks: Tyra Banks (gee, that name's familiar), Nick Cannon (the noted anti-Semite) and now Terry Crews.

The BLM movement has simply scared the shit out of the Entertainment world and hastened the departure of whites, especially expendable middle-aged ones like Bergeron and Andrews. Even if you flip the dial and you'd think America was 50% black (the TV commercials, the TV shows...) that's not been good enough. The Grammy Awards may be loaded up with rap acts, and hosted by Jay-Z and hat not. Tony Awards might go to "Hamilton" (about the white founding fathers now played by blacks). The Emmy Awards may have plenty of black winners. BUT...hey you at the Academy Awards, some years there's NO guilt-movie about slavery. Some years you don't give "Best Song" award to a shitty rap number. And the repercussions shake Hollywood like it's under the San Andreas Fault.

Here's what the London Daily Mail had to say less than a week before Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews were FIRED:

LONDON DAILY MAIL

Hmmm.

A few days later, BERGERON and ANDREWS both get axed.

HOW...BAD...IS IT...when the need to hire somebody BLACK overrides that of Erin Andrews. She's only 42, and she could be the poster girl for the #METOO movement. She suffered a humiliating stalking incident in 2008 when a jerk nearly twice her age screwed a hidden camera into her hotel door and eventually sent nude images of her walking nude inside her hotel room all over the Internet.

Eight years later, and she's battling cancer. Cervical cancer. Along the way she's merely lent her name to a host of worthy charities. Nah. Fire her.

Who did they replace her with? A pretty worn-out Tyra Banks, now 46, and past her prime as a daytime talk show host and the host of that talent contest, "America's Got Talent." SHE is a "NEW CREATIVE DIRECTION?"

I don't see it.

If ABC said they simply couldn't pay for TWO hosts, ok. But ABC wasn't claiming poverty.

Have you watched this God-awful "Dancing with the Stars" show? It's usually a cringeworthy debacle where some D-lister idiot makes a fool of himself or herself but keeps getting voted through for the ratings. There have been freak show contestants, there have been ridiculous politicians, and it's been a circus. The HOSTS really don't matter. Nobody's watching for Bergeron (65 years old and admittedly tiresome, only from being around for so long doing the same crooked smile and perplexed wincing). Nobody's watching for Andrews. POSSIBLY they watch for the asshole judges who love to make a big deal over their own opinions.

TYRA BANKS is going to make a difference? Blacks are going to suddenly watch BALLROOM DANCING?

So far I haven't heard ABC say "our ratings are shit, old white people aren't watching as much...we're gonna start having TWERKING..."

Here on the blog, I mentioned how this reverse-racism is in the book world, too, and I showed how the book reviews in NEWSWEEK and ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT were completely slanted toward authors "of color."

As Johnny Carson (forced out as too old) used to say, "It's all in the timing."

The timing, as reported by the London Daily Mail among others, is that there's a PC panic going on, a BLM hysteria going on, and the trend is AGAINST anything involving middle-aged white heterosexuals.

Well, it's a good thing THAT bunch is dying off, and the population continues to get more DIVERSE. And hell, if the population isn't getting DIVERSE fast enough, a little more violence in the streets, a little more looting, and there will be a lot less whites, right?

Everybody knows who GEORGE FLOYD is. Killed by a white cop in Minnesota. He allgedly had a criminal record and allegedly was resisting arrest and allegedly was passing counterfeit money.

NOBODY knows who Justine Damond was. She was killed by a black cop in Minnesota. She came outside of a private home when she heard a commotion, and she was shot dead. She was, of course, unarmed and had no police record, and was no threat to anyone.

More chunks from the London Daily Mail article, in case it disappears off their website:

The YELLOWING Rose - or "Why are there COVIDIOTS??"

"I have a little list...they will not be missed..."

Yes, W.S. Gilbert (of "Mikado" fame...except among people who think Kendrick Lamar deserves a Pulitzer and a Nobel). THEY will not be missed. STUPID people. People who don't know you ARE are and would briskly walk away from anything invoving "operetta."

Today's STUPIDEST people are the ones who endanger the lives of not just their worthless selves, but WORTHY strangers by NOT wearing a mask in public and NOT distancing. Jerks like THIS guy:

We've seen more and more report of mangy MAGA-hatted morons who lived to regret their idiocy. They lived...not too long.

The other day, some asshole in Texas went to a "COVID PARTY" where the wise idea was to prove that if Covid-19 isn't a total hoax, the idea of CATCHING it from somebody IS.

Huh? Somebody's caught COVID-19, so he throws a PARTY to prove you CAN'T CATCH COVID-19.

That's beyond CATCH-22, isn't it?

We know how SOME people will respond to this: "FAKE NEWS!"

So let's go back to a ROSE is a ROSE is a MORON. The guy who most certainly is NOT Fake News and is VERY REAL DEAD.

He's the guy who LOVED the paranormal (meaning he believed in UFO's?) and NASCAR (grounded UFO's) and the NFL (hey, don't let 'em change the name of the REDSKINS!

He was a real patriot, a real live nephew of my Uncle Sam, DEAD ON THE FOURTH OF JULY...

When he was a yellowing rose, and slowly suffering the fatal grip of deathly congestion, this moron was STILL not telling people to take precautions (like he DIDN'T). He was just grumbling that he couldn't go back to his fat-assed lard-brained lifestyle, and that NEW JOB he had, which may have involved sucking the clogs out of NASCAR gas pipes or laundering KKK sheets or Christ only knows what.

It's a sad FACT and not "FAKE NEWS" that social media's proven there are literally MILLIONS of utter ASSHOLES in this world. They won't believe what sensible people say. They only suggest something about God:

If there IS a God, he wants to THIN THE HERD, and the best way to do it is not with an almighty 40 DAY FLUSH (it's too hard to get every animal aboard a carnival cruise ship). It's by sending down disasters and PLAGUES. And then blaming it on his son not showing up because people didn't pray hard enough.

It's hard to have sympathy for nitwits who died from a disease they could've avoided if they weren't so fucking STUPID. Especially hard when they are still stupid and arrogant about it.

What in the WORLD is wrong with people who sneer at the statistics? THESE statistics?

WHAT is the cause of this DENIAL? Fear, stupidity or BOTH?

Today, Governor Cuomo in New York Tweeted that there was a party in Suffolk County where one person with the virus infected many many others. It spread fast. The percentage infected was high. What did one idiot tweet? SHUT UP PUSSY.

Patrick will not be missed. Who knows, he might be one of the city's best sewer workers. He could be going a good job of emptying garbage cans on his route. And he might end up on a slab where even a gay necrophile won't touch him.

And all because he didn't happen to get Covid-19 at a party. Just gonorrhea.

Who's to say he won't get Covid-19 tomorrow just by strutting outside and breathing in the air that was expelled by an arrogant jogger who ALSO didn't think it was possible for somebody "healthy" to get sick?

Again...WHY are idiots so convinced that a worldwide pandemic is a "hoax" and EVERY doctor and EVERY world leader is in on it? WHY are idiots so convinced that if this flu DOES exist, they won't die from it and worse...they won't spread it to some WORTHWHILE person who will die from it?

But let's get back to the wilted Rose.

What would YOU do with your last breath, and your lungs loaded with death-snot?

Why, go grab an obscene moronic MEME of course, and post it on social disease media:

There ya go. The planted Rose (or was he incinerated and blown into the air like so much coronavirus) has the last laugh.

He's in HEAVEN and YOU'RE NOT.

Just call out "Hey, Richard, how's the air up there?" Just WAIT for his response.

NYC Phase 3 - Stinky Sidewalk "Food" Vendors are B-a-a-a-a-ck

Thanks, Mayor De Lousio. The "quality of life" has just gotten worse.

Fourth of July

Masque of the Red Death vs The Masks of the Covid Plague

Mr. Poe, in his famous short story, wrote that there are some things of which NO JEST CAN BE MADE.

I asked Steve Allen about this, and he said, "Of course you can joke about anything." The question was whether to show the joke to anyone else!

Is Covid-19 hilarious? There have been some wan song parodies on YouTube, and Colbert, Maher and a few others have gotten off some good lines about coping. Here's a rarity...social media actually HELPING. Culled from various Internet posts, here's a TOP TEN look at The Masks of the Covid Plague. It's hard not to smile at some of the Walmart shoppers and others improvising their store protection: