Archive for 2023

WITH KAYCE EZELL, C.V. WALTER, CEDAR SANDERSON AND OTHERS:  Fanta-Fly Postcards.

Fanta-Fly Postcards (Postcard Stories Book 3) by [C.V. Walter, A. Katrina Casasent, Kelly Grayson, Jennifer L. Cameron, J.F. Posthumus, Ted Begley, Clair Kiernan, Mariam Ehme, Stephen White, Cedar Sanderson]

The time to write is now. The time available to write is also now, and that’s a bit limiting if you only think in terms of a novel at a hundred thousand words or more. Because you don’t need that many words, or that much time, to tell a story.

While at Fantasci in North Carolina, The Three Moms of the Apocalypse issued a challenge. Let your imagination soar and tell a story in exactly 50 words.

CATASTROPHIC CHANGE HURTS:  Staying Alive.

AS I’VE SAID, NO EXCUSES, NO PROMISES OF REFORM. ARRESTS, PUNISHMENT, DISBANDING AND MAYBE REFORMING UNDER A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP:  FBI targeted whistleblowers. Burn it all down.

That is by the way, the soft landing. If they keep tap dancing around the truth and thinking they’re getting away with it? This is not a threat. I have no intention of doing anything. It’s a prediction from how these things have gone in history: If they avoid the soft landing and think they won?  #Teamheadsonpikes always wins in those situations.

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.

LAWYER: Woman Has ‘Receipts’ in Viral Citi Bike Incident, Media Will Be Held Accountable. “We saw how mania and media worked in the case of the Covington kids, where there’s a dogpile to get someone because it fits the political beliefs of the media. It’s shameful that people fall on people in stories like this when they don’t know the facts and try to ruin others. And yes, usually they aren’t held to account. But it sounds like this time, just like with Covington kid Nick Sandmann, they just might be.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Researchers Discover New Way To Fight the Aging Process. “Researchers at the University of Cologne have found that a protein complex impedes the repair of genomic damage in human cells, mice, and the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Furthermore, they were able to successfully obstruct this complex with a pharmaceutical agent for the first time.”

IT’S ALL GRIFT:

But here’s why reparations (I’m serious, a good idea!) will never happen: simply cutting checks to the descendants of slaves means shuttering all the thousands of racial justice nonprofits that serve as an employment program for America’s white grad students. You do not simply give people money. Maybe Cori Bush could propose something where the government cuts a check and then pays a handful of white PhDs to pass that check back and forth, taking 5 percent each time, then when they each have enough money for a brownstone plus enough left over for a very tasteful remodel, the remainder goes to a descendant of slaves? Still workshopping this one, but I can see us getting somewhere.

Related: Homelessness is too profitable to be solved.

DISPATCHES FROM THE ICE FLOE: Hypocrites: The View Demands Feinstein Resign, ‘Not Ageism or Sexism.’

The die was cast on ABC’s The View on Friday as the cast collectively demanded that California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein resign as her advanced age and deteriorating health hindered her ability to represent her constituents, and they should get a younger liberal in the seat. But this was a grossly hypocritical position for the liberal ladies to take since they’ve previously denounced mental competency tests for Congress, term limits, propped up and defended Senator John Fetterman’s poor health condition, and defended President Joe Biden’s mental faculties.

After a quick rundown of the situation facing Feinstein from moderator Joy Behar, racist co-host Sunny Hostin lamented: “It’s terrible because she has been such an effective senator for over six decades – or six terms rather, and I think that it’s very difficult for someone to step away from work that they love.”

She then blamed Republicans for supposedly forcing Feinstein to return to work before she was completely healed:

She’s 89 years old. She says she’s not going to resign. And she did ask the Republican Party – or the Democrats asked the Republican Party to allow her a temporary replacement while she heals. They’ve refused to do that. And so, she’s back at work. And I think she’s not fully healed. I mean, if you look at the pictures of her, it pained me to see the condition that she was in.

Despite her own argument, Hostin still said he felt “it’s time for [Feinstein] to put the country before herself.”

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[Co-host Sara] Haines was one of Fetterman’s strongest defenders on the show. Ahead of the 2022 midterms, she insisted that his doctor’s note from one of his donors “would suffice” as an all-clear for him to run.

Haines, Behar, and Hostin also mocked then-Senate candidate Hershel Walker with salacious accusations of having brain damage from playing football yet decried the “unempathetic” criticism of Fetterman’s inability to be a senator.

Late last month, Behar argued that a braindead and “drooling” Biden was better than “any Republican.” “There’s nothing to indicate that there’s anything wrong with Joe Biden up here. There’s nothing to indicate that,” Hostin asserted while pointing at her head.

Flashback: The Democratic Party’s Ice Floe Politics.

ANOTHER LINCOLN STATUE IN JEOPARDY:  It’s so nice to know that the average college freshman is morally superior to every human being in history.  We should let those nice students get rid of all the statues and decorate their campuses with selfies.