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A banana

A banana taped to a wall with duct tape is selling for six figures in Florida – yes, of course it’s Florida!

The artist taped it to the wall and sold it for more money than I’ll probably see in my lifetime. Even better, after the first few days you have to supply your own banana as the one you were sold rots on your wall. And you have to supply your own tape to tape the new banana up on the wall.

Now at this point, any sane person is asking how this is still the artist’s work if Continue reading →

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Let me see if I have this straight…

The majority of 9/11 terrorists were Saudis. The shooter in Pensacola was a Saudi. His Saudi friends watched and filmed the incident.

Yet we invaded Iraq, destroyed Afghanistan and betrayed the Kurds while continuing to arm the Saudi kingdom and sending our troops to help protect their oil fields.

Hmmm…. I wonder what they might have that we think is so important to protect that we allow them to continue to send their citizens here to murder us while we send our soldiers there to protect them? Continue reading →

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I am addicted

I admit it. I am totally addicted to the best and worst dressed lists that are posted after every event in which pretty people are dressed by a designer who wants their product seen on someone pretty and impossibly skinny.

Nowadays, people who weigh more than 80 pounds are allowed to be dressed in nice attired on the red carpet. In Hollywood that’s considered progress – fat people (defined as anyone over a size 5) are also allowed to consider themselves attractive.

But I don’t voraciously devour these lists because of any political content. No, I do it because I Continue reading →

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My current gripe

Want to get on Netflix – you need a cell phone so they can send you a text to get the process started. Download Samantha Bee’s latest app? Need a text to activate it. Want to make an appointment with a dog groomer – text because if you call it will take them two or three days to answer.

I don’t have a cell phone. I don’t want a cell phone. I’m very content with people only being able to kind of contact me by phone at home. And I say “kind of” because I screen all my calls on Continue reading →

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Seriously, I will scream

If I hear one more person trying to compare Trump’s possible impeachment with Bill Clinton’s, I’m going to scream. They are not the same. They are not even in the same category. They are barely in the same universe.

Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about an affair. His affair hurt no one but himself and his marriage. Nothing else. Not national security, not our international reputation, and not our country’s honor.

Orange Peel, on the other hand, did all those things with a bang. His holdup of money gave the Russians free rein in Crimea while the Continue reading →