Category: Live Bullshit Free
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“How It Feels To Be Part Of MSNBC’s Audience: A Playlet”
As the lights come up, a member of MSNBC’s audience sits down to watch some news. Almost immediately, the audience member is incensed. And… fade in — MSNBC: Donald Trump said ‘this’ today. Audience: But ‘this’ is a lie and you know it is. Nicolle Wallace spent a whole half hour reporting on it extensively.…
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In Order For Us To Get That Cheap Pair Of Gym Socks, Some Other Human Has To Suffer
Our market-driven economy has taught us all to continue searching out the things we want for the cheapest possible price. Why not get the thing you want while keeping a few more kopeks in your pocket? Seems totally reasonable. But, that assumes that the things we want — a good pair of white gym socks,…
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At The Core Of Every Story Is The “WHY”? Why Did It Happen? The Trump Story Has A Core “WHY?” Too
At the core of every story is its “WHY?” Why did this thing happen? The story itself may be a detailed recounting of all the “WHAT?” that happened, but without the “WHY?” the “WHAT?” and the “WHO?” and the “HOW?” lacks context. Nobody does anything for no reason or “just because”. Donald Trump, for instance,…
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Dear Irony: Enough Already!
I like irony as much as the next guy — probably more than him. But even irony, it turns out, has its limits — or should. Evangelicals praising a man Jesus would despise. The party of personal responsibility literally never taking any. A country racing to open back up for business even as the virus…
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Damn! “Worldwide Pandemic” Was NOT On My “Shit That Could Happen During MY Lifetime” Bingo Card
On the other hand, I didn’t have “Treasonous POTUS” on my card either.
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Dear Rich Guys: Learn From History! If You Kill Off Too Many Workers, The Workers Will Control The Labor Market!
The current crop of Republicans would have felt right at home in Feudal Europe — all of them vassals to corrupt king Donald who, himself, sold out the Kingdom to the Kingdom’s chief rival, King Vlad The Impaler. Feudalism relied on having lots of peasants to work the lord’s fields. The Black Plague gutted Europe,…
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Dear CNN & MSNBC – “Previously On” The Donald Trump Story – He Was A Traitor & A Criminal… Oh, Weren’t You Watching?
It’s like watching a TV show where the audience is always miles ahead of the storytellers because the audience has been keeping track of the story while the tellers keep going back to “fade in”.
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Dear Legal Cannabis Business: Here’s What I’d Like You To Be When You Grow Up
Legal Cannabis is here and it is not going away. All those dire predictions of society’s collapse? Ummmm, not quite. Just the opposite actually. As the coronavirus pandemic proves to us every day, some people can’t be dragged kicking & screaming to a good idea even if that good idea could save their life. Full…