Viking Sunday!

Vikings-Eagles Sunday at noon. In the family, one Vikings fan, one Eagles fan and one pseudo-Eagles fan who is actually a Bears fan but willing to wear the Barkley jersey to support Max in hostile territory. But hey Minnesota Nice right?

The light rail was packed like sardines. It was hot, it was claustrophobic and someplace around Lake Street the goddamned thing broke down. The power went out, the air went out, the lights went out and you were stuck in the weird position you were crammed into. 20 Minutes later they announced a new train was coming on the southbound track, which must have been thrilling for the people on it who now were forced to go back to the stadium while the football freaks crammed in. The whiplash on the train as it stopped and started about sent Max's Mom flying. My neck hurts.

Finally, we got to the stadium. you must walk up steps, lots of steps to get over the street then back down to get to the lines to enter. Then once you get past security, it's into this glass enclosed wonder of a stadium. Escalators to the top of the stadium with the rest of the steerage. Then up to the 2nd to the last row. Jesus, I was done. I am not moving from this seat until this damn thing is over. But there's really not a bad seat in the house. Surrounded by both Eagles and Vikings fans, we did the Skol Vikings chant, the singing of the Viking song (which I memorized by quarter 2), Skol Vikings lets win this game Skol Vikings honor your name...., Fight Fight Fight V I K I N G S Lets go. And I was in an Eagles jersey.

The Eagles looked like the Super bowl champs and won the game 28-22. It was an entertaining game; unlike Friday nights blow out. We had long TD passes, pick sixes and long ass Field Goals. You forget how good these players are, compared to college.

After the game we stood waiting for Max's Mom bathroom break. Some Vikings fan was drunk, angry and a real bro. As Eagles fans finished the E A G L E S chant, this bro said it was the gayest thing he's ever seen (yeah like Skol Vikings is so manly), and said he was gonna go beat up some "fags". I don't like that word any more than I like the N bomb and I glared at him to which the bro said "Don't look at me fag" and I realized de-escalation was probably a good idea, rather than an old man getting throttled by a guy 40 years younger. I ignored him. He went away. Back to his MAGA basement closet. 

Then came Bro #2. He reached his hand out and then did the combing his hair Fonzie deal. Then we got the double bird. Ya got us dude. Happy Days!

Fans are nuts but as Max pointed out, it was two guys out of 60,000. Yes, but why do we have to meet them every time? 

The degeneration of fan behavior I have noticed over the last few years, 9 years maybe, is getting worse. Nebraska fans are becoming the same as all. They boo teams they will beat 59-0, they boo other teams bands, they act worse and worse. We used to applaud the other team leaving the field, win or lose. That's over. Now its people screaming at the other teams, win or lose. Maybe it's a good thing to lose season tickets and watch it from a 50-yard line seat in your living room. 

Hmmm wonder what happened about 9 years ago that would cause this incivility to become commonplace. Minnesota Nice and the so-called Greatest Fans in the World has much less gravitas. 

It's a shame. Well at least nobody dropped poop on us from a fighter plane.

Driving Miss Minneapolis!

Saturday is a drive around day in Minneapolis, St Paul and every suburb known to man. The No Kings protest was huge in Minneapolis but when we got there, it was breaking up, and people were walking home. So off we went.

Driving thru Minneapolis and there, with a line of people was Matt's Bar, home of the Juicy Lucy, a hamburger full of cheese. It's famous, it's a wait of 1-2 hours and the line had nothing but Philadelphia Eagles fans looking for their cheese wiz and beef. Down the block is 38th Street and the George Floyd Memorial. Now you may think Floyd was a criminal, a counterfeiter, a druggie, a domestic abuser or anything else, but the fact remains, being murdered by a sworn Minneapolis cop is not the sentence for any of that. It is interesting to see the scene of the crime. Floyd was a lot of things, but a murderer like Derek Chauvin he was not.

The U of M campus is on both sides of the Mississippi. Rowers were out and so were protestors. Give em a quick shout out, a honk and a thumbs up and we were on our way. The campus is very nice and clean. I wonder if the frat boys had gotten over their hangovers.

St Paul is the capitol of the state. the capitol building is typical. A big white capitol that looks like this.

Back to the Mall to find the plaques that identify where certain things were at the old Met. Metropolitan Stadium was on the site of the former home of the Twins and the Vikings. It took a while and that Mall was still hotter than hell but Max found them.

I went to the Met once in 1967. I found it so cool. Being a child, anything would be cool. I'm sure the Met turned into a dump, but nonetheless, the Met could never have been as big of a shithole as that Metrodome turned out to be. A gigantic cement tomb. It is also gone. US Bank Stadium is there now, home of the Vikings. Tomorrow.  

Gooooo Gophers!

 Off to Minneapolis with the entire fam damily to watch the Huskers beat Minnesota (oops). The drive is between 5-6 hours from Omaha to the cities and seems like 5 of it is Iowa. 

The Mall of America is a giant hell hole. It's levels high, it's huge, it's full of people of all stripes, and it's hot as hell. But man, do you get your steps in. We killed off time before the hotel would let us check in without charging us $40 for being early. 

The game was at the Huntingdon Bank stadium on the campus of the U of M. The light rail (gawd I wish we had one here) is a quick and easy way to get around the cities. The stadium is newer, it does have steps, but it also has seat backs. Lots of Husker fans were there to watch our victory and bowl eligibility game. Whoops! Minnesota dominated the game from beginning to end. The Huskers got slapped around and it was pathetic to watch but Go Big Red always.

Notes from Game

There was an older Minnesota fan sitting across the aisle and whether he was all there or not is debatable. Every single play he would exclaim in the most Fargo like accent...."Gooooo Goooophers!  Yes, every play. I guess they heard him.

After the debacle was over, leaving the venue, here comes the drunken frat boys, decked out on Gopher hoodies and chanting "Fuck Nebraska"! Ok boys, but you've beat us 6 years in a row so act like ya been there. You're a better program than us and have been for years. But the frat boys needed to be de-escalated because they looked like they were lookin for a fight. High fiving the winners seems to work as they changed from "Fuck Nebraska" to "I like your sweatshirt" with a fist bump. Another band of drunks decided to give Max shit for wearing an old 15 jersey. "Hey man its Raiola, how many tampons you got in?" Max responded 8 (which at the time was the number of sacks he endured) and said "I can barely walk". Playing along and taking your lumps is always the best strategy. Not like me in 1976 when Iowa State fans got into it with us and we went to jail for a few hours. Those days are over.

The stadium has the greatest popcorn ever at a sporting event. It's movie theater like in many ways. Both in taste and price. 

Minnesota's band is solid. They have a top 5 fight song, the Rouser, and they have a great mascot, Goldy Gopher. I could easily become a Minnesota fan if I lived there. It's a fun atmosphere.  

Watch Out ICE! It's a Frog!

 As Portland "burns", invaded by T Rex's and frogs and unicorns and cats and wiener dogs, Trump the Impaler blowhards himself into a alleged "peace deal" that's really nothing more than a ceasefire and the completion of a real estate deal between Jared Kushner, Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump. Gaza is destroyed by choice. Tens of thousands of Palestinians are dead, including children, buildings are in rubble, and the opportunity is there for real estate worms to move in and develop. Develop of course means catering to the rich at the expense of the poor. So excuse me if I don't get all fuzzy inside because the murder has stopped for a day or two. And by murder, I mean October 7th AND the utter destruction of Gaza. One was a planned attack on innocents by a gang of terrorists, and the other was a planned attack on innocents by a US supplied war machine led by a crooked politician desperate to stay out of jail. Sound familiar? 1200 died on Oct 7 and tens of thousands died in the revenge, 99% of whom had nothing to do with the Oct 7 murders. Sounds fair (eye roll). 

ICE, some with swastika tattoos, continue to keep their stuffed into locker in middle school revenge tour by smashing into cars, provoking people dressed as mascots, chasing down people who've been her 30 years, arresting guys who spent 45 years in prison wrongfully convicted, and being general assholes. Theres not a doubt in my mind that these thugs were hired by Secretary Ice Barbie to crack heads and further the J6 coup by violence with a badge. Noem is an asshole for sure, but her photo ops prove it. She is truly performing for that audience of one, Stephen Miller, to impress upon him her hatred of all that is not white. She's been banned from South Dakota Lakota reservation for chrissakes because she's such a bigot. So fuck ICE and fuck Kristi Noem.

Deranged ass kisser, Grindr Mike Johnson, has nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 along with some Knesset Kiss Ass/ Christ, Grindr Mike it's a two-day old "ceasefire" that has a slim to none chance of holding. Now some of us know that Joe Biden started this ball rolling, freeing 105 hostages in 2023, and when this one fails, they'll blame Biden somehow. Johnson is absolutely the worst Speaker of the House ever, in fact he's not even Speaker, he's just Trump's bag man who does whatever he's told by President Miller. Grindr Mike, a man of many secrets, refuses to swear in the newest member of the House, an Arizona Democrat named Adelita Grijalva recently elected, because she would be the 218th House member to demand the vote on the Epstein list. And being a pedo protector, Johnson continues to do the devils work on his road to Hades.

Finally, J D Vance. A fast-talking con artist without a principle in his body. He went on various shows this last Sunday to further fascism and lying about everything else. Asked by George Stephanopoulos if Tom Homan, the human migraine, accepted $50K in a fast-food bag days before the election for influence peddling. Vance, who lies just as easily as Trump, wouldn't answer and launched into the biased press bullshit. But George wouldn't let him get away with it, asking him 2 more times until as Vance lied and bobbed and weaved yet again. As the third dodge began, George S cut him off and said well he's not answering the question and cut the feed leaving Vance to go on other shows and face less dangerous opponents who refuse to stand up to these guys. 

Vance, who called Trump "Hitler" in 2016 and was way ahead of us, is as unlikable of a lunkhead than maybe any politician alive. Well, anyone with an average IQ that is. Vance who answers questions like he's selling you siding or gutters, ya know throws your first name into every sentence to show how much he cares about you, is just so full of shit he should have been a window salesman, he could have taken every penny from those hillbillies he allegedly grew up with. But what Vance doesnt get is Peter Thiels money can't keep him from himself. A dishonest empty soul who can shape shift to whatever he needs to be. So despite being Thiel's bitch, Vance cannot survive being the top of the mountain. He's appalling to most people who recognize con men when they see one. And when on top, EVERYONE sees you, not just gullible Ohioans. 

Legally Bondi!

Oh my. Pamzilla appeared before the Senate Oversight Committee armed to the teeth with oppo research on every Democratic Senator who had the audacity to ask questions. She rolled her eyes, insulted them, made up shit they'd done, made up contributions to Democrats by donors related to Epstein, stayed silent, defended her boss and did everything BUT answer questions. Pam Bondi would be the worst lawyer in any other regime, but isn't the worst because of the existence of Alina Habba Do and Lindsey Halligan, not to mention Todd Blanche. She isn't anything other than a mob lawyer keeping the wolves at bay from her mob boss employer. She is the Attorney General for all the people. Stop while I guffaw. Bondi is a dumpster fire, and nobody is going to put her out. As long as she's in office, existing as a street tough doing the mobsters revenge, she's a joke. She accepted a $25000 bribe  campaign contribution from Trump while serving as AG in Floriduh to keep her from indicting the fraud Trump over his fraud Trump University. We all know what she is and are just haggling over price now.

Meanwhile the beauty queen lawyer, Lindsey Halligan, appointed as US Attorney for Virginia because the Godfather thinks she's hot, and willing to do whatever he wants, justified or not, has indicted former FBI head James Comey for something. She's an idiot insurance lawyer who has never tried a case and boy does it show. She was castigated by a judge for being so incompetent she couldn't even file paperwork correctly for the indictment of Comey. Comey, who has the best lawyers in DC, should have no problem beating this rap. Halligan is so dumb she filed a court document setting the trial date for Jan 5, 2025, 9 months ago. This is the real men in women's sports argument. She's about to be crushed.

The Godfather Don, who just has to have a roundtable every week in which his cabinet kisses his ass, leaving their self-respect at the door, is just sitting there glowing in the praise, hitting on any hot chick he lets in the door. Yesterday it was table full of "independent journalists" also known as right wing grifters paid to further the regimes bullshit. Total frauds like Andy Ngo (Trump fell asleep listening to this dullard), Jack Posobiec and some Seattle grifter who claimed Trump had turned her views around right before he told her how attractive she was. Others like Savanah Hernandez from TPUSA and Katie Daviscourt, a blonde Post Millennial "reporter" who dressed like she had been hired as an escort for an orange businessman. And Nick Sortor, a grifter who followed Secretary Swizzle Stick Noem all over hell documenting her idiocy, insisting there is actually an Antifa, dressed as a frog perhaps? Pathetic

Finally, ICE continues on their revenge tour of Chicago and Portland and LA. Thugs, untrained clowns, right wing whackjobs and horribly nasty men who'd been stuffed into lockers in middle school are the ICE base. Cheered on by bigots and assholes but fortunately met with resistance by the people, these jokers are failing miserably at Stephen Millers 3500 people a day bounty. 10, 11 or 12 of them at a time chasing grandfathers into coffee shops to earn their bounty, shooting people who get in the way, and pepper balling priests yet they claim to be under assault. Oh yeah, they are ICE, a bunch of incompetent snowflakes who soon will learn "I was just following orders" aint gonna work as a defense. 

This country is being run by a bald little worm named Stephen Miller. This Miller is perhaps the most powerful Nazi to ever be that close to the Presidency. The day he goes to prison cannot come soon enough.

Herb Alpert!

 If you are a child of the 60's you couldn't get away from radio hits by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. And you liked them. The poppy trumpet and the rest of the Brass. Now of course we know that there never really was a Tijuana Brass as he used session musicians yet who cared?

Alpert brought his latest version of the Brass to Omaha last night to perform in front of a full house. The crowd was lively, shouted out questions, stood and applauded way too much for a guy with a bad knee and loved every second of it.

Alpert is 90 years old, looks great, plays great, moves great and tells stories like a fun Grandpa. Beginning with The Lonely Bull , Alpert went right into action Above the band was a giant screen that showed old tapes of 1960s shows in which Herb Alpert appeared on, commercials that featured Alpert's music (Tea Berry gum), old music videos of the brass playing in bullrings, racetracks, on the beach, and onstage. It was a fascinating watch from the aspect of a kid from the 60's. Johnny Carson, the Dating Game, Rowan and Martin among others.

All the hits were played, many of which I'd forgotten about. Whipped Cream (Alpert has a great story about that album cover which apparently got some loudmouth in the crowd "through puberty") Spanish Flea, Love Potion #9, This Guys In Love With You (another great story) Rise, Smile, Tijuana Taxi, Mexican Shuffle. The songs are all there.

As an added bonus, the former lead singer of Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66, Lani Hall, was brought out to sing short snippets of their hits. Oh yeah, she is also Herb Alperts wife of 52 years. Another great story of how they met, how he ordered the Brass to stay away from Brasil 66's women singers during a tour so he could have Lani to himself. He's so great at weaving a story together unlike other old men we are subjected to.

This legend is 90 years old. If you get a chance, this concert is a must. You'll be smiling for 90 minutes.

The Week That Was!

The invasion of America has hit a new concern. Portland, Memphis, Chicago, Los Angeles and every Home Depot in this nation has been invaded by Trumps goons, ICE. The Mango Mussolini has doubled down by sending National Guard troops into American cities that didn't vote for this fragile Ego'd little bitch. The results are predictable. Since there is no attack on ICE in any of these places, lets manufacture one by unleashing these J6ers, Proud Boys and just plain thugs onto the normal people who say no more of this fascist shit. They march out like little goosestepping pretend soldiers, adorned in gas masks, slapping their night sticks into their hands, and flak jackets and when nothing happens, they attack the protesters. This results in videos of goons beating up hippies, appealing to the Archie Bunkers still alive, and thus, the hey what's the context questions. They show old WW II footage to the Idiot in Chief, tell him its (fill in the blank) city, he buys it and then Stephen Miller takes a break from eating mice, and orders the baboons in cool uniforms to wherever to bust heads. Then Miller takes a break from jacking off to Holocaust videos to manufacture a new "crisis". The day these pieces of dung go before a court and get life will be a great day.

Meanwhile, Pete the Drunken Dingleberry Hegseth takes a break from homoerotic speeches to Generals to bring out videos of American fighter pilots killing Venezuelan fishermen or leisure boaters by blowing them out of the water. Many of them were heading for port, not to the US to force fentanyl down your poor kid's throat. These are war crimes of course, as the evidence that these people were drug runners is nonexistent. But Hegseth just keeps showing them, which I'm sure makes him think of hairless buff shirtless men that definitely are not gay (SNL credit), and gets his Christian nationalist crank all hard. The day this guy goes before a court will be a great day.

Kash Patel, the Twitter troll, and head of the FBI has become even more incompetent as his reign of error continues. Patel was hired, along with his fellow podcasting prick, Dan Bingo Bongo, to get into bum fights with Democratic Congresspeople for maximum Fox and Newsmax exposure to appease the base of monkeys. Patel has recently ended FBI cooperation with the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center because of woke or some such shit. This means when one of those organizations comes to the FBI with credible threats from racists, anti-semites, or your general psychotic loser, Patel and Bingo will ignore it. Thus, I assume the FBI will also not take seriously what White People Are Superior groups tell them about phony Antifa and BLM activities. Yeah sure. Patel's job is to protect white nationalists aka the MAGA base. 

Meanwhile, the Tiffany Network, home of Murrow and Cronkite and Friendly, under the orders of Skydance Paramount Plus pussies, have hired Bari Weiss, a disgruntled New York Times reject, to run its editorial department. Weiss is one of those frauds that suddenly realized that grifting MAGA is lucrative and ranted about cancel culture and woke. Oh the golden oldies never fail with dummies. Weiss caught the eye of the Ellisons, David and Larry, as they buy up American media to further the conservative con job. And now this right wing grifter will be stuffing the billionaire me me me culture into CBS News. Pretty soon we will be seeing anchors like Beanie Boy Tim Pool and "reporters" like Andy Ngo and Benny Johnson spewing the regime bullshit. I guess it's good the only people who watch network news any longer are old and on their way out. Like Larry Ellison.

The shutdown continues with the GOP going full Goebbels by telling a lie often enough that people start believing it. Not since the Volkischer Beobachter has a government spewed more bullshit. The Democrats want to spend a trillion dollars on illegals health care. Put forth by every GOP weasel still shilling for this Goon in Chief, this is utter garbage. They know it but outright lying, not the usual spinning, is the new GOP way. Up is down, in is out, Antifa is fascist, and a Nazi salute is a "Roman salute". Some of them when confronted with their lies go back to spinning. Illegals go to ER, have no money, and the taxpayers get stuck with the bill. Not exactly a trillion, and not even true, but the let em bleed out on the street or die of disease argument really isn't a winner. Well at least with normal people with a heart. Those kind of folks don't death threat any politician who strays from the cruelty platform.

Finally whooping cough, measles, typhoid, tuberculosis and soon smallpox I'm sure are back. As parents listen to their internet kook "research" and that gravel eating RFK Jr, about the "herd immunity" trash we've heard for years, back then from hippie weirdos, and now from dumb Magats AND hippie weirdos, back off from vaccines for their runny nosed kids. The spread of dead diseases, long thought gone, one of humanity's greatest achievements, is back. Red States like Florida, Mississippi, Texas, Missouri and Louisiana have outbreaks of these diseases. Congrats rubes. It's almost back to when America was great. 

We are fucked.

The Outsiders!

 The touring company of the Outsiders has come to Omaha before launching nationally next week. They call this a "try out" stay where the kinks and any other problems are dealt with before going national. You'd never know judging from this musical performance tonight.

Based on the S E Hinton novel and the 1983 movie, the story involves 1967 Tulsa where the city is divided by East, where the greasers live, and the West where the "soc's" or rich kids live. Whenever they catch the other on their side of town, fights ensue.

The main characters include Pony Boy (a fantastic Nolan White), his love struck kinda dumb brother Soda Pop (Corbin Drew Ross as a great straight man) and the oldest brother Darell (the glue of the play Travis Roy Rogers), Pony Boy's best friend Johnny Cade (Bonale Fambrini in a great understated role), the New York bred Dallas Winston (Tyler Jordan Wesley in another great performance) and Cherry Valance, the soc with a brain and a heart (a wonderful Emma Hearn).

The story is familiar. The greasers, the poor kids made fun of by the soc's, just want to be left alone to go to movies and malls on the west side but cannot because they get attacked if they are found. Johnny Cade is beaten to a pulp and seems to know his days are numbered. Pony Boy tries to keep him together while at the same time making an attempt to keep his brothers supportive. But Pony Boy is wracked with guilt over his parents' deaths he feels he could have prevented. The play involves this guilt turning to rage and the killing of the main soc, a brutal rich kid, by Johnny. The run from the law, the turning the kids into heroes saving children from a fire, resulting in the death of Johnny. There is no redemption here as in the opening song states, this is the way its always gonna be.

The music is good but there is a lot of copying from other musicals here. I heard Hamilton, Hadestown and Grease type music which does come together. The songs are good, the lyrics are great, and the stage presence is phenomenal. There is a scene of a rumble in a park, done in slow motion with rain pouring down, with bright lights signifying what's it like being knocked out. Its superb choreography, maybe the best I've seen in years. Another scene when the soc's try and drown Pony Boy, complete with sound effects and the sense of drowning onstage is also so great. 

But the truly great moment in the Tony Award winning musical is the goodbye song of Dallas Winston. Tyler Wesley knocks this moment out of the park. But it's ended and Pony Boy's narration takes over, denying Wesley of any applause. That was awkward but he got his due during the curtain call.

The first act is very good. The second act is great. A solid two hours of fun, sadness and wonder. This cast of young up and comers, many making their touring debuts, have no weak spots. They all act and sing like wily veterans. 

On the negative side. Not much, but when Pony Boy bleaches his hair blonde and they tell him he looks like Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry, sorry but as Max's Mom pointed out, he looks more like Beavis. Thats all the bad I got.

In conclusion, if you get the chance by all means attend this awesome musical. I expected not much and got more than I expected. That is the definition of a great experience.

Bravo! And stay gold Pony Boy.

Rewriting History By Pete Kegseth!

 Another week another whack job shoots off his mouth. December 19.1890 is not the finest hour of the United States Military when troops opened fire and killed 300 or so Lakota and buried them in a mass grave at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. If you've ever been there, you know the ghosts are there. It's an eerie place, much like The Little Bighorn. 19 soldiers were awarded Medals of Honor for this "battle" of Wounded Knee. Throughout American history of the last 134 years this massacre is right up there with My Lai and Sandy Creek and the Haymarket Riots as far as disgraces go. 

But not anymore. Sec of Defense Pete Hegseth opened his yap and did the performance theater of talking with his hands and justifying this "battle" and the medals awarded for the "bravery" of the US Army. Right in line with this putrid administration, history is being re-written by a gang of white supremacists. Jan 6 was FBI, 2020 election "stollen", everything Trump says was not said, Kirk was "assassinated" by a leftist, the left are the violent ones, Israel is just defensing itself and now a genocidal massacre was a "battle". The cowards who initiated this event at Wounded Knee were "brave". Like hunting down fleeing women and children up to 3 miles away and killing them. You get a Medal of Honor and you get a Medal of Honor. Hegseth, a Christian nationalist bag of tattoos, fresh off a grueling stint as 3rd banana on a Fox weekend show, has assumed his role and begun justifying every shitty action he can find. American history is nothing but eagles and guns and conquering heroes. It's like these people live in the 1930s. Oh wait.

Of all the shit said during the last 8 months, THIS is the worst. And I KNOW it won't even be bottom justifying a massacre of women and children. Just wait till the Trail of Tears is rewritten as a nice jog in the park, The Civil War was northern aggression on a peaceful people, slavery was just full employment for blacks, slave ships were cruise ships, Vietnam was a noble victory, the invasion of Iraq was about WMD's, and Nixon was hounded out of office by Jimmy Kimmel.

Justifying a massacre as "brave", even for accused rapist (oh those pesky NDAs) and thrice married Hegseth. I assume he was sober as he gave his little talk about medals and bravery. Yeah man, it's all woke and shit to think killing nonwhites is bad. But the sight of white trash beating cops and shitting in waste backets, chanting "Hang Mike Pence", sing songy staking Nancy Pelosi, and acting like cocaine fueled monkeys was instigated not by a fat orange buffoon, but by the FBI. Ya know, the FBI under the rule of Donald Trump. 

Its Trumps America. Invasion of American cities, the beating of anyone not white by armed thugs posing as federal agents, disappearing American citizens for weeks at a time, renaming shit that doesn't matter (War department, Gulf of America), building $200 million ballrooms financed by bribes from corporations, and the embarrassment this regime brings upon Americans every single day is being met by a giant yawn by the majority. We are a docile people and it's time to stop that.

Or it's all going to be gone, 250 years destroyed in 8 fucking months.

Kimmel, Kirk and Kooks!

 

Well lets get started. Every week is a novel in itself but unfortunately, it's a novel based on real events that skews to the MAGA. 

Jimmy Kimmel, after being banned after threats from the latest MAGA thug, Brendan Carr (we can do dis da hard way or da easy way.( such a funny joke per J D Bowman) returned to the airwaves after Disney was bombarded with cancellations of their Disney Plus Marvel streaming service and their Hulu, the watch twice as many ads as regular network TV streaming service. Oh yeah and ESPN too. Disney did not suddenly become a courageous resistance standing up to Trump and Carr, but a corporation with ALL the money who wants to keep it. Kimmel kept hammering Trump and his thugs. There was no apology to the "offended" Kirkophiles, no financial bribe money paid to TPUSA, the college grifter organization started by Charlie Kirk, or a softening of Kimmel's attacks on Trump. Good for you Jimmy, you have the courage most of America lacks.

Some wayward 29-year-old white male, no hope seen for his future, took out his gun, laid on a roof across from an ICE camp in Dallas, and fired away at the building. He killed a detainee and wounded two other detainees. No ICE people were harmed in this shooting. The young white male then whacked himself cuz that's what "left wing radicals" do. The dust had barely settled before the usual suspects like Kristi Noem, Kash Patel and Donald Trump played the blame game. Though only detainees were harmed and the two critically wounded will be deported as soon as they can stagger onto a plane, this was an attack on ICE. The poor ICE thugs  agents are under attack. These poor ICE people are just family types trying to make a living "protecting" all of us from that guy over at Home Depot looking for a day job and of course raping your white wife. Patel even released a picture of a bullet with "Anti ICE" written in blue sharpie. This I take with a giant grain of salt since virtually nothing coming out of this dishonest regime is truth. 

Escalatorgate. Trump and Melania arrived at the United Nations and after their videographer hit the stop button, the escalator stopped and horror of horrors they both had to walk upstairs. Then during Trumps whacko speech, which featured all the greatest hits, his teleprompter went out. Forget that on the campaign trail Trump constantly pissed and moaned about his lousy mike, his teleprompter failing, lights being too bright like the whiny lil bitch he is, this was sabotage. Fox News and Newsmax sprang into action. This was some sort of attempt to kill Trump or make him look like a fool (spoiler he is a fool). Escalatorgate will be the Fox narrative all week. 

The Kirk "memorial service". A whole lot of crazy from the likes of Jack Posobiac, Stephen Miller, a bunch of charlatan preachers, and then eventually the King of Bullshit himself. Kirk's widow, a dry crier if I ever saw one, "forgave" her husband's murderer and called for peace. Whether that was true or not I don't know. Then came the creepy Uncle Trump. Hugging Erika Kirk like a trench coat wearing perv, Trump then launched into how much he hates his opponents (just another hilarious joke per Megyn Kelly). There were "hundreds of thousands" of attendees in a 63,000-seat stadium to honor the podcaster who has become the modern-day Jesus H Christ. Unfortunately, he did not rise after 3 days but one Jimmy Kimmel did. Just stop with the canonization of this loudmouth shit stirrer. I condemn his killing, but I also condemn his nonsense.

The indictment of James Comey. An indictment that should not even get out of arraignment. Since Trump openly told Pam Bondi, a modern-day mob lawyer, to start indicting people and that he's mad about MAGAts demanding action when nothing gets done. This stupid man later deleted his blatant call to arrest his opponents cuz it was supposed to be an email or a text or whatever. Nuremberg cannot come soon enough for these goons.

 

And finally, Oklahoma's own Superintendent of Public Indoctrination   Education, Ryan Walters has decided to move on from buying Trump Bibles and watching porn at work, to some phony organization that doesn't condemn porn at work. Walters famously bought $60 Trump bibles for all classrooms in Oklahoma schools (which also contains the Constitution but NOT amendments 11-27 because women's rights and banning slavery and civil rights and 18-year-olds voting and the 25th amendment are all "woke") and lastly advocated for a mandatory Charlie Kirk statue at every college campus, and a mandatory TPUSA chapter at all Oklahoma schools. Walters is as dumb as they come. Also, Walters is as phony as they come. Good riddance.

This is our 2025 country. Sheesh.

AJ Croce!

 On September 21, 1973, singer songwriter Jim Croce was killed in a plane crash while touring. Croce in his short life had so many hits it's hard to remember them all. His son, AJ, or Adrian James Croce as he reveals, is keeping his father's music alive along with his own on tour. Backed by a tight band, background singers, and stories that keep one's attention, Croce plays a two-hour set of hits and deep cuts that seems like much less time.

Opening with You Don't Mess Around with Jim had the crowd at the Scott Recital Hall singing the chorus as enthusiastically as AJ asked for. Oh yeah, he asks you to sing along, he takes requests, he communicates with his band almost telepathically when the set list changes due to requests from the crowd. All the while as the songs go on, we see clips from the early 1970s on a big screen, almost like videos created for each song. All of us old hippies were in heaven hearing the music from that time and even earlier. Croce has a soft spot for the old bluesmen and for people like Ray Charles and honors them with tales and music.

At the end of the two hours, we get the huge hits, Bad Bad Leroy Brown, I've Got a Name (my personal favorite) and Time in a Bottle, which featured old home movies of Jim, his wife and AJs mom Ingrid (still alive at 77) and a two-year-old AJ cavorting at their home in Pennsylvania. I was a really sweet moment as Jim sung the song and then AJ took over halfway through. 

Jim Croce died at 30 years old. AJ Croce is 53 years old now and keeping this classic music alive. Power to him.

If you get a chance, go see him, it's worth it.

Free Speech? Ha!

 This is MAGA right now. Defiant and forever the victims. The murder of Charlie Kirk has unleashed what MAGA has always wanted. A crackdown on free speech, a gutting of the First Amendment and total control of the country by one man child and his puppet masters at Project 2025.

We have Kirk's widow, Erika, giving a speech of not sadness and mourning and unity, but of revenge. Glaring at the camera like a possessed hateful blonde demon, she carried on about keeping Charlie's garbage alive, not because of her grief, but because like her husband, it's all a grift. She sent out fund raising emails before he was even buried, she posted videos of her dead husband's body, Christ it's all so ugly. At least her head didn't spin around and tell the left their mothers suck cocks in hell. 

Stephen Miller, now HE is truly America's Hitler, with his on brand promise to crack down on "leftist organizations". Miller, who looks like a true Nosferatu (some say Naziferatu) who hangs from his ceiling at night, glares into whatever camera is cursed to show his mug, and pontificates about forcing America's children to endure white supremacist versions of history, that "radical" leftists (anybody to his left which is everyone) are dangerous and need to be prosecuted and jailed, and various other wild eyed "theories" about white people being the true oppressed ones. Miller hates nonwhites, that's clear, and what that reason is could be he is still hurting from a rejection from a girl, probably a nonwhite one or that he truly is an evil Nazi and a half Jewish one at that.

Then there's J D Bowman, errr, Hamel, errr, Vance, the Vice President of the entire United States. Interviewing the cruel and bitter Miller, Vance, again the Vice President of the entire United States jumped right in to agree with the scowling Miller about establishing a right-wing authoritarian society where free speech is suppressed and certain political views are criminal. Vance is truly an unlikable buffoon with a gift for gab that grows weary after about 10 seconds. He's slick, a real billboard lawyer type. Vance is the sitting Vice President of the United Red States only. Much like his boss, Peter Thiel.

Kash Patel, a shit stirring podcaster like Kirk, somehow was made head of the FBI along with fellow podcaster and creepy thug Dan Bongino. His incompetence is evident. He has no fucking idea what he's doing. But what he does know is how to get into pissing matches with anyone he doesn't like. Yelling and rolling his bug eyes like a character from Bugs, Patel, performing for his audience of one, hollered at any Democrat who asked him a question. He knows why he's there. Because a low IQ President loves theater. Patel is the main character in Trump: The Musical.

Then there's the Attorney General of the entire United States, a truly sycophantic idiot named Pam Bondi. She is going to "go after" what she perceives to be "leftist" organizations. Appearing on a podcast hosted by Eva Braun Katie Miller, partner of America's Hitler Stephen Miller, Bondi proved once again she isn't Attorney General, but simply one man's lawyer and bound to carry out his retribution. Bondi took a $25K bribe to ignore her client's fraud back in Florida and thus established what she truly is. 

How did we get here? Because MAGA is a perennial victim of something. It's how they work. Use tragedy to exploit their true agenda. The fascist agenda. It's enough for me, a sober thinking person, that the murder of Kirk was not a random act. Of course, we shall never know that. They have their patsy, a young man they have branded as a gay transgender leftist with fake texts and bullshit manifestos that the dog ate I guess. Much like the Soviets, this Russia based administration is making it up as they go along. Disagree with us, you're evil, or mentally ill, or just annoying enough to be arrested.

Scary times and these gutless wonder useful idiots in Congress will do nothing. Much like the Democrats, still believing in guard rails and shit like that. 

I am truly not sure who is worse. 

The Kirk Hangover!

We've had a weekend to sober up and look at the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk from a realistic, sober and fact-based view. JK, this is America where anything makes one go on social media and say hey look at me! The Tik Tok and the deep dark internet videos of screeching right wing nuts looking for attention by calling for permission from King Trump to start killin the libtards. Yeah, some of them are over the top and are nothing but performance theatrics, but some are not. You can tell the serious ones from the middle school level audition for the tough guy role. The serious ones are kind of scary. The ones where the person speaking is not holding a gun, not screaming, not wearing any type of right-wing gear yet very calmly announces that war has been declared. Either creepily dangerous OR the best actors on the planet. 

The MAGAt snowflakes have their marching orders. Blame the transgenders, the left and whatever else they can throw against the wall hoping it sticks to dummies. We have a Governor of Utah, almost sort of unifying and eerily strange, suddenly changed course over the weekend and began blaming the left and the transgenders. It's almost like he had a little talking to by a googly eyed incompetent. The crazies all started taking like the killer being part of the "trans agenda" was as fact based as the stolen 2020 election. These people are pros. They know how to stir the shit and they also realized that ignorant people are so easy to manipulate. Much like Kirk knew.

Meanwhile the grieving widow, Erika Kirk, with a filter that made her look even more insane, took to social media to deliver a bitter, spiteful, threatening speech that did zero unifying. But then why would it? Erika Kirk is every bit the grifter her husband was. She crassly posted on Instagram for chrissakes video of her hovering over the casket of her dead husband, kissing his fingers, kissing his face all the while whispering her love. Also, all the while being professionally taped. Talk about performance art! Later on the emails began to circulate. Erika will carry on his work. Please give me money. The guy isn't even buried, and she's gotten back on the grifting horse. She's a con artist, a grifter, a charlatan just as Charlie was. It's all about the cash, baby, send me some. Say wait, wouldn't Charlie have wanted a man to take over since women are for makin white babies and stayin out of sight?

I am so sick of all of this. The right, full of gun nuts and guys who have waited their whole lives to join the modern day equivalent of the KKK and start lynchings again. The left, full of everything relates to Gaza and immaturity gloating over a guy bleeding out on a stage in front of hundreds cuz he said something they didnt like. The crazies, full of antisemites blaming the Mossad cuz Charlie was going to abandon Israel, or the whackos saying it was an inside job and the stage security killed him, or the jibrones saying it was a false flag. I'm SICK of it! Maybe some bad joke at the Emmys will outrage the MAGAt snowflakes into a new outrage. I sure hope so.

Meanwhile on Saturday night, Omaha's own Terence Bud Crawford won yet another boxing title in Las Vegas. I love to watch Crawford box. He is as methodical as an Ali, a Greg Maddux, an Ichiro, a Marv Levy, a Greg Popovich, a Brady, a Gene Tunney (google him kids). Methodical is boring to some. The people who worship legalized assault like UFC or MMA or the theatrics of WWE. They just want action. Brawling. Total chaos. Then there's the rest of us. Admiring the thought process of a man who knows his every move and showing Mike Tyson's theory that all your plans go out of the window when you get punched in the face is only 99% true. Crawford gets socked in the grill and acts like yep thats part of the plan. What Crawford has done is unprecedented. He has won multiple titles from 135 lbs to 168 lbs. Thats remarkable. Nobody is too big to take down for Bud. I say the two loudest indoor spontaneous reactions I've ever heard were the moment in Omaha when a Husker volleyball  killshot beat Texas for the national title AND the moment Bud Crawford one punch knocked out Julius Indongo  in Lincoln. Well done beating a bigger guy yet again.

Charlie Kirk!

 The above image is all anybody should concentrate on right now. A father, a mother and their young kids. They are forever scarred by the murder of their husband and father. Gunned down while speaking conservative talking points. Graphic footage is just horrifying. I am sorry I saw it. So, for now, all we should focus on is Charlie Kirk's family. The grief is real. But the grift is over. I condemn this hit. Cuz it WAS a hit.

Now the BUT.

I had my problems with Charlie Kirk. I attacked him on twitter constantly because it was so easy. He said some of the stupidest shit ever on video and audio. He pretended to hate minorities, women, gays, and anybody else on the other side of the spectrum. He famously went from Release the Epstein files to I don't care about the Epstein Files in one day because he knew the man keeping his grift alive was in those files. It WAS a grift. Charlie Kirk, much like Sean Hannity and Kaleigh McEnaney, knew great television. They didn't believe what they said until they saw their bank accounts, contracts and adoration from mutton heads grow. Then their brains suddenly shifted. Man, are these people easy to grift. And the grift became gospel. They'd convinced themselves that cash is right and to truly earn that cash they must actually buy into what they say.

Meanwhile, the pearl clutching by the right is almost laughable. Without knowing a goddamn thing about the shooter or the motive they assigned motive immediately. The left, the Democrats, the gays whatever. Hey, we do know what motivated the MAGA Minneapolis assassin of Melissa Hortman and her husband. We DO know the motive of the Tree of Life murderer. We DO know the motive behind the mass murder in Arizona that severely wounded Gabby Giffords. We DO know the motive of the El Paso Walmart mass killer, the Buffalo supermarket killer, the King Soopers mass murderer, the Pulse nightclub killer, the killer of the black churchgoers in South Carolina, the killer at the Club Q in Colorado Springs, The Burnette Chapel mass murderer, the Knoxville Unitarian Church assassin. All of it was based in hatred of people unlike themselves. Yet the right, with no clue as usual, is quick to place blame. The Divider in Chief assigned blame without knowing anything as usual. Hey Donnie, Putin bombed Poland, didya hear?

Christ, assassinations and attempted assassinations are as American as apple pie in the words of H Rap Brown. Kennedy, Malcom, Evers, Kennedy 2, MLK Jr, Wallace, Lowenstein, Reagan, Giffords, Lincoln, McKinley, Roosevelt, Long, Hortman, Trump, the list is endless. For chrissakes, American history began with the killing of Alexander Hamilton by the freakin Vice President of the United States, Aaron Burr, perhaps you've heard of it.

So, to hell with this political bullshit outrage. I guess it all depends on whose side you're on before you actually become human and actually condemn this violence. Not a fucking word about Hortman from the Republicans, in fact, Trump said it would be a "waste of time" to reach out to the victims' families. To hell with all of it.

If you cheer this killing of Charlie Kirk, fuck you. If you cheer the killing of Melissa Hortman, fuck you too. If you cheer any murder, fuck you also.

I am sick of it. Sick of the backwards hatted tough guys on Tik Tok threatening revenge on libs. Sick of leftists cheering for Luigi Mangione. Sick of grifters and con artists pretending they care while raising money. Sick of people calling anything they don't like "genocide". 

In conclusion, I feel sorry for Kirk's family. I condemn his murder. May he rest in peace if you buy into that stuff. But remember, grifting can be dangerous, and your words sometimes have consequences. Mostly just being ostracized, but in some cases a nut wants you dead. 

And sometimes somebody puts out a hit on you. 

Football Notes!

 Moving the Husker Cincinnati game to Arrowhead in Kansas City was a brilliant move on Cincinnati's part. Yeah, they were outnumbered by 100-1 in fans but the $$$ had to be good. I mean can Nippert Stadium in Cincy handle the influx of Husker fan? Could the Lucas Oil Dome in Indianapolis handle it? Arrowhead has done it before and came through.

The drive to KC on Thursday was a fucking nightmare. Start stop start stop road construction, the 3-hour trip became 5 hours and add on another hour to park. So, if you leave at one, you get to the stadium at 7. Jesus, it was exhausting. 

The parking lot was full of red clad drinkers getting oiled up for the game. The port a potties had lines, the people tailgating took up 3 parking spots which probably led to the parking lot nightmare. 

The stadium was the loudest place I may have ever been, and I've seen Nine Inch Nails in a confined space. Sitting under the overhang in the end zone may have contributed to my ears ringing. It was hot. Being out in the open air may have been better but I was a sweaty mess.

The concessions are crazy priced. They have a captive crowd and man do they exploit it. $46 for some chicken tenders, fries and a Coke Zero. But as Max said, they were allegedly "gourmet" chicken tenders thus the price. Were they gourmet? Yeah sure. My choice was a brisket sandwich and a water (I don't drink beer at anything but baseball games cuz it's the law). It cost me $35. Yum.

The game itself was insane. The crowd was younger, drunker, and had the energy to keep it up for the entire 3 hours. I couldn't do that cuz I'm old and I'd stood for an entire Alice Cooper show the night before. I'm sure next week in Lincoln will be back to the old "Siddown I can't see" vibe. Unless the newly available beer causes some sort of conversion (It wont). 

Hey Husker fans, booing the other team's band and its dancers is low class. It's Mizzou/Colorado type shit. For thinking you're the best fan base in College Football acting like drunken buffoons isn't cool. Besides, who the hell boos Cincinnati?

Dylan Raiola is good. Emmitt Johnson is good. The defense is ok. Archie Wilson, the new punter straight from Australian Rules Football, is the MVP. His rugby punts (with either leg by the way) were the reason Nebraska won the game by pinning Cincy deep every time. Great job mate.

Raiola makes $3 million per sources. Thats $250k per game win or lose. Going to the NFL would be a pay cut. Is he worth it? We shall see.

Husker fans permeated KC on Friday. I assume most were sticking around to see the Royals that night on Nebraska night where they got a free Husker sweater or something. They were all over downtown KC. They were all over the Negro Leagues Museum which is a great place to visit. My question was do Nebraskans own any clothing other than red Husker stuff? I had on a Montreal Expos shirt which caused 4 discussions with museum visitors about the Expos. All 4 had red on.

Friday night we went to Lawrence Kansas to see the Jayhawks meet Staten Island's own Wagner U, an FCS team. They have a new, or remodeled stadium, which is modern as hell. It looks good even though our side is the same old bench seats and steep steps.

The Westboro Baptist freaks were there "protesting" outside the stadium. With their vulgar anti-gay shirts on and their judgmental bullshit I couldn't resist engaging with them. They did not engage back. I didn't swear at them but eventually told them they were THE most horrible human beings on Earth and huffed off. They don't care, they're crazy. 

The Kansas fans are decent. Of course, a game against Wagner isn't exactly knuckle biting and they sell beer. Their band is good (better than ours) and their concession prices are more in line with sanity.

A young man in a Trump hat was going up and down the steps constantly and I wondered aloud that what female would not run from this lout. A drunk young lady was taken out by EMT's down the steps where she fell into people three times until they eventually strapped her to a rolling chair. Wonder what she felt like Saturday morning.

Ubering to games seems to be the way to go. Two Uber rides in Lawrence cost less than it would have to park at the campus. Plus, it helped me avoid that climbing up Mount Everest or whatever they call that gigantic hill on campus.

The road back on Saturday was yet another Husker caravan. Some stop and start due to construction but for chrissakes, a Caseys in Mound City had a snake like line to buy pop and snacks that went from the front counter to the bathroom. Yes, it was all us Husker fans. In red.

A great weekend. Go Big Red! But I stand by my preseason prediction of 7-5 tops. 

Alice Cooper!

 Back in 1973 my third concert ever was the Billion Dollar Babies tour in Lincolns old Pershing Auditorium. Alice Cooper was the hottest act out there. It was truly a show from start to finish. Kind of a play. I saw him again in 2017 when he was 69 years old. The show was still there. An intense rock show without a pause for banter or ballads.

Alice Cooper, age 77, came to the Orpheum Theater tonight with a tight band and the show is still just as captivating as it was in 1973. I mean we have it all. The top hat and cane, the snake, Vincent Price, the stage rushers, the monsters in gas masks, the guillotine, Marie Antoinette, Cold Ethyl, the giant Frankenstein. It's a great show. 

But the real lure of the show is the band. Besides Alice, you get 3 great guitarists, Ryan Roxie, Tommy Henricksen and the always unique Nita Strauss. You get a great bassist in Chuck Garric and a drummer keeping it all together, Glenn Sobel. Does anybody really like drum solos though? It's a real showstopper, as in everybody sits down.

The crowd was well let's say, decrepit boomers and Gen Xers, but what they all had was a great time. Standing for the entire 90 minutes of hard driving rock isn't easy for us old timers (Thank you drum solo we all sat for a bit) but for this band its possible. Highlights for me were the hits, Eighteen, No More Mister Guy, Under My Wheels and Lost in America. Schools Out contained a bit of Another Brick in the Wall, and the encore featured a tribute to Ozzie with Paranoid. The sound is a bit off at the Orpheum, but the music was right on. The Alice Cooper lyrics are hard to decipher sometimes if you aren't a super fan who knows all the words but he, my friends, still has it. He moves a bit slower, but he's up there the entire 90 minutes belting out his songs, getting his head chopped off, interacting with his younger band mates, and giving the crowd what they want. a goddamn good rock show with a plot, references to old horror movies and a certain flair for the dramatic.

This is still a wonderful way to spend 90 minutes forgetting your troubles. Your ears may be ringing at the end, but you are satisfied.

As the beginning of the concert says, Welcome to the Show.

The Cornhusker Concentration Camp, Errrr, Clink!!!

Because we here in Nebraska love anything with the word "Husker" or "Cornhusker" or "Big Red" or "prison" in it the latest travesty from Homeland Security Chairman and dog murderer Kristi Noem is the placement of another cutely named concentration camp right here in CornHuskerland. McCook, Nebraska is the lucky recipient of this place to imprison farm workers, restaurant employees, construction workers and their children. Noem is so cute in her cosplay uniform of the day, in this case it's probably a whip carrying warden on a horse, that she named this monstrosity, Cornhusker Clink. Ooooooo Im so overwhelmed by something named after our extreme mediocrity of a football team that I cannot breathe. Cue the screaming Beatles fans.

Now look, McCook is barely in Nebraska, stuck down in the southwestern corner of the state where nobody ever goes. Its more Kansas or Colorado but whatever. McCook was the first town in this state to lose their hospital because of that Big Ugly Ass Bill. It closed, or will be closing, because of the uncertainty of Medicaid funding. Oh wait, rural Nebraska uses Medicaid? How socialist of them. McCook, or rather Curtis County, voted for Trump with 85% of the vote going to the orange alleged child molester so there's a temptation to say Schadenfreude Bitches but I digress. 

As a bleeding heart libtard, aka a decent person, I really don't want anybody, including the Maga cult, to get their health care cancelled by a truly despicable administration of cruelty and hate. Despite the news reports of residents of McCook poo pooing the hospital closure as not Trumps fault, again, it's a self-administered disaster caused by about 85% of the Curtis County residents. Well ok then. Sometimes people need to be saved from themselves.

Back to the Cornhusker Concentration Camp. Despite the bootlicking local support of Governor Jim "Pass the Vodka" Pillen, the human penis, Senator Pete Ricketts, and Trump simps like Representatives Mike "Medicaid Has Been Increased I Swear" Flood and Adrian "Who the Fuck Am I" Smith, a concentration camp holding their friends and neighbors isn't really all that popular anyplace in this state. The local yokel state senator from out there hasn't put her finger in the air yet so she has to do some "further study" to see what she thinks. The mayor of McCook, the county commissioners and the residents all were wandering around when the Governor showed up to announce the camp. Basically, their response was "excuse me?" 

Theres already a "prison" in McCook. A minimum-security work camp that has 186 residents who are being rehabilitated with actual jobs. The Governor, a real tool, announced those inmates will be relocated to a prison system designed to hold 4000 that currently has 6000 inmates. Pillen will do anything for his orange master, including telling the skeptics they need to get onboard the Trump Train and critics don't know what they are talking about. Pillen, who has a difficult time swearing in new National Guard members at halftime of a football game (ahhh he was hammered), is obsessed with Trump. He defeated Trumps handpicked candidate for Governor, a real grabass named Herbster, so he needs to get in line to lick Trumps ass cuz he's up for reelection in 2026. So, 186 work camp residents will be thrown back in a cell with real criminals in the overcrowded Nebraska prison system, perhaps the worst in the nation. And the new Cornhusker Concentration Camp will be built, surrounded by ICE thugs, Nebraska National Guard folks and people with pitchforks.

Good luck Nebraska. The workers, many of them undocumented, who make the farm economy go, will be sitting in a camp while crops rot in the fields, raising prices and forcing MAGAts to come up with some cockamamie excuse to blame Biden.

As long as we're at it, Governor Three Sheets, lets change the state motto from "Equality Under The Law" to "Arbeit Macht Frei". 

Resist!

Penn & Teller!

 

50 years these two have been dazzling audiences with magic tricks, Don't say illusions or Penn gets pissed. Its tricks dammit. They refuse to lie and pretend its real.

The two magicians played the Orpheum Theater last evening to what looked like a sold-out crowd. Penn was the voice; Teller was the silent magician as usual. The tricks are amazing and the participation by the audience is essential. Penn would call children onto the stage, give them shit just like he does to adults, and allow them to be the "punch line". We had Live Your Dreams, we had count the jellybeans, we had a weird pointless Entropy skit that ended up being very pointed. We had a Spanish trick that killed. All the while Penn's motormouth entertained the audience with "frustration" at kids who didn't follow instructions, adults who tried to be funny (dont) and the crowd who didn't follow instructions. It's a brilliant combination of magic and comedy.

The last act before the Entropy reveal (which is genius by the way) was inviting anybody who "believed" that Penn and Teller used "stooges" to fool the audience. onto the stage where yet another trick involving the Bible was unfolded.

The show is a bit over 90 minutes and it goes like that. You don't even notice the time its so captivating. If you've seen them In Las Vegas realize the touring show is all new stuff. The show is not as long as the Vegas show because the venue is probably not suited for some of their tricks (no magic bullet) but it is well worth the price of admission.

Brilliant!

Z Z Top!

 I first saw ZZ Top in 1973 in Omaha, pre-beards, at the old Civic Auditorium. This was so long ago that the opening act was Aerosmith, followed by Sugarloaf. ZZ Top was touring after that release of Tres Hombres, one of the great albums of the 1970s. I saw ZZ Top, also at the Civic, post beards, in 1980 or 81 and they had the longhorn onstage with a rattlesnake, in a cage thank gawd. They are what they are. Just a rock band.

Night Ranger opened to a tepid response. They have a lot of songs I didn't realize were theirs because I absolutely despise hair metal. Jack Blades seems like a decent enough guy, but man he's just not my cup of tea.

ZZ Top took the stage to a much better response. Under Pressure opened the show and had such a lousy sound mix I was worried the rest of the show would be just as bad. But like pros that have pros running the show it got fixed quickly. Billy Gibbons is joined onstage by former guitar tech Elwood Francis who got the job after the death of Dusty Hill probably because he's a brilliant bassist and he already has the beard. John Douglas played drums in place of Frank Beard who has had health problems.

The band is just straight ahead rock n roll. All the hits are there, no here's something off our latest album stuff, from Gimme All your Lovin, which the crowd recognized easily from the drum opening volley to the encore of La Grange. Theres not a song you wont recognize if you're a fan or have just been alive for the last 51 years. Remember those 80's  videos where they stood aside for a bigger story? Well now its just play the damn song, whether it be Sharp Dressed Man or Legs. 

And it still glorious.

Trumpstein!

 Did Trump engage in sex with under 18's? Of course he did, nobody with a room temp IQ doubts it. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were inseparable for years. They both enjoyed the same things, most of which is illegal, immoral and just plain sick. And now, you'd think Trump never met the guy. The Epstein list is going to be released, it's on Pam Bondi's desk awaiting review, Bondi "reviewed" it and told Trump he's in the files, then all of a sudden there was no Epstein List. Its all a fraud. made up by Obama and Biden and the Democrats. Then, because this pervert cant shut his ass up, he shades Bill Clinton and Larry Summers and a bunch of hedge fund guys, HEY he'll give you the list.

WAIT! There's a list after all? Trump is such a blabbermouth he digs a grave that 99,9% of humans would already be in, yet somehow Trump can get his fellow grifters like Charlie Kirk, Tim Pool, J D Vance, and the rest of the paid con artists profiting off Trumps debauchery to do the ol' 180 and claim they now don't care about Epstein any longer. He's got power and charisma that's for sure but it doesn't change the fact the President of the United States is a kiddie diddler, a felon, a rapist, a thief and a golf cheat.

Trumpstein is one of those guys we call a useful idiot. The Project 2025 scum will use him up, get what they want, then when it's accomplished, Trump will be shooed off to the dustbin of hedonists. Oh well we didn't know, oh my what a horror show, he needs to resign and then Peter Thiel's bitch, J D Vance, can continue the road to authoritarianism. 

Trump's latest foray into I didn't like Epstein, didn't know Epstein, or threw Epstein overboard involves Epstein stealing his employees from Mar A Lago. Purely business, eh? Tomorrow we may hear that Trumpstein was undercover to bring down a child sex trafficker and HAD to partake to keep his cover.

Meanwhile the well-known pimp and perjurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, doing 20 years for various crimes against humanity, was interviewed by Trumps personal lawyer, no not Bondi, in federal prison for some reason which I'm sure is a precursor to her saying Trump is innocent, Clinton and anyone else Trump wants to take down is guilty and she's an innocent victim of Democrats. Trump then pardons her, she stays silent and it all goes away.

What kind of moron buys any of this? I am not sure but trust me there are millions who will.

Did you know there are 4700 financial transactions in the Epstein files? Wouldn't that be interesting to see the names on that list. 47? Trump is 47. There ya go Q anon. Thats enough "evidence" for you to con more people out of money and their intelligence.

Will this whole sordid slog of degeneracy be enough to take Trump down? I have no idea. This guy is a walking scandal day after day and nothing sticks. Yeah, he has 38% approval, but he wasn't that much more popular in 2024 and America said sure why not, FASCISM RULES!

This country is truly in the Age of Stupid.

Ozzy!

 You could say making it to age 76 means Ozzy Osbourne won. Christ the guy should have died 40 years ago. Ozzy was the ultimate front man whether it was Black Sabbath or solo. He was the Prince of Fucking Darkness for gawd sakes.

Ozzy was a chubby kid from England when he was chosen to front Black Sabbath, perhaps the first heavy metal band. Those of us of a certain age and of a certain musical preference knew of Ozzy from the get-go. I mean come on now, War Pigs? Paranoid? Children of the Grave? Those were unlike anything we'd ever heard before. This was punch you in the mouth rock, there was no room onboard for wimps and we all went along for the ride. Dammit, your heroes die just like everyone else.

Ozzy didn't play a damn thing. He just shared the best musicians he could find and went out and rocked the arenas and stadiums. He acted all goofy onstage whether by design or by just being himself. And could he bring you along for the bumpy ride. Ozzy was exhausting to watch. He sweated, he dumped water over his head, he sprayed foam all over the front rows and once bit the head off a bat he thought was a toy. THAT made him a legend among disaffected youth. A pure accident.

The reality show, The Osbournes, made him a household name. He was made fun of, he looked a fool, he let Sharon use him to make cash. Some of us didn't like it, but most people thought it was hilarious. It seemed Ozzy was mush brained, used by his overbearing wife and kids to secure a lifestyle they'd grown accustomed to. He got Parkinsons, obviously from years of drug abuse, alcohol abuse and bad food. Yet he was still pushed out on tours he may not have wanted to be on. Just weeks ago he was pushed onto a stage for the last time on a throne, sang a few songs and left. Forever.

Ozzy wasn't the greatest singer. He wasn't the best frontman. But dammit he was entertaining as hell. But most of all he rocked for 76 years. We should all be so lucky.

Cheers Ozzy.

Chilling Effect Achieved!

The chilling effect is here. Corporate America is scared. They always get scared when their bottom line is threatened because Corporate America doesn't give a shit about the constitution, what they give a shit about is making money. And if they have to kowtow to a mad King, well they've proved they will. ABC settled with the Mad King over nothing. They took Trumps nuisance suit and just paid it. Chilling Effect 1. Paramount (owner of CBS) wants to merge with Skydance and in order to do so need FCC approval. They settled Trumps nuisance suit over an edit done by everyone from CBS down to the Lindell TV for $16 million. Also allegedly provided $16 million of free propaganda to advance authoritarianism. And now? They have fired Stephen Colbert, the Trump critic that holds nothing back. Oh, I guess technically he wasn't "fired" but his show was cancelled as of May 2026 when his contract is up. Trump gloats like the glorified thug he is.

Who's next? Jon Stewart? Jimmy Kimmel? Stewart's contract expires in December 2025. Kimmel's contract is up in 2026. Are they secure? Not with Donnie Dipshit in charge. ABC already folded to the bully boy in chief. Skydance will own Jon Stewart if the merger goes through. Do you think any of the cowardly media conglomerates will stand up to back channel demands to fire Kimmel or Stewart and replace them with "funnyman" Tony Hinchcliffe or "comedian" Theo Van? Will Dennis Miller make a comeback? Larry The Cable Guy hosting a late night ahow dedicated to kissing Trumps ass?

This really is a chilling effect on free speech. Conservatives have been whining for years that they are "censored" by big media. Anyone who has google knows what bullshit that is. But they thrive on being the victims. They hate watch Trump critics just so they can be offended and narc them out to the powers that be. The podcasters, the manosphere, the right wing paid Russian assets, the regime itself, and twitter, the Nazi forum some of us still fight with.

Colin Kaepernick was blacklisted for kneeling during the anthem. Jan 6ers were pardoned for trying to kill the Vice President, breaking into the Capitol and shitting in waste baskets. Breonna Taylor was murdered by a cop for sleeping. The cop who did it will serve one day in jail because Pam Bondi and the DOJ are racists. The Rosenbergs were killed for doing less spying for Russia than most of the people in this regime. Chilling effect.

Trump and his goons will continue to push the envelope further and further. The Democrats will do nothing. The courts will do nothing. The Supreme Court is nothing but a kangaroo court for Harlan Crowe and Donald Trump to do their bidding. We are in the throes of fascism right fucking now. Are you gonna do anything?

In a normal world, which hasn't existed since the Degenerate In Chief descended down the golden escalator to applause from paid actors in 2015 and called all Mexicans rapists and murderers which allowed the slime under the rocks to emerge. In a normal world, Colbert, the ratings winner, would be scooped up by someone. But in this world, are the media chickenshits willing to fight back?

Pardon me while I howl in laughter.

We are fucked.

Divide And Conquer!

 The Moron in Chief continues to throw the world his famous knuckleball regarding economics and it continually rolls to the screen. 25% tariffs on Japan, Mister Japan to be exact, which maybe or maybe not will ever go into effect, could be the stupidest thing this economic illiterate may ever do, Ya see, Japan holds most of the United States' debt in bonds and loans. Ya don't piss off the bank that holds your destiny in their hands. But when it comes to a lifelong deadbeat like Trump, what does he care? This guy has never paid a debt in his life. In fact, one of the dumber things he's ever said, and it's a long list, was he would wipe out the debt by turning it into crypto? WTF? This man child will bankrupt this nation like he did his casinos. President Deadbeat, that's what 49.8% of this stupid country voted for. 

The Big Ugly Bill passed. The Republicans danced, oh how they danced on the backs of the poor, the brown, the elderly, the very white trash that voted for them. They YMCA'd in front of a camera, while the miserable dopes who voted for Trump had no idea what had just happened to them. They gave Trump a prop gavel to pound like a toddler and they all laughed. Oh, how they laughed as President Fisher Price pounded the gavel with a stupid look on his face. The billionaires, the 1%, the Republican politicians funded by moral lepers, the oil and gas leeches, the corporate blood suckers, the masked thugs hired by ICE, the military industrial complex, they all danced. Their time has come.

Meanwhile, the very rural voters who voted 75-90% to deport nonwhites and didn't like the black lady, are about the get reality jammed up their bums. Medicaid will be destroyed, thus destroying rural health clinics, hospitals and nursing homes. Already in rural Nebraska (no we aren't all hicks here) in a county that voted for Trump 94%, a rural hospital is closing due to uncertainty about Medicaid cuts. More to come. Enjoy your bigotry. It's really fucked you now. Karma.

Alligator Alcatraz. A concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades. A tent city with cages. The "worst of the worst" undocumented will be housed there. Ya know, the field workers, restaurant cooks, the home health care workers, the construction workers, the roofers, the very people who make rural America go. The people who will be housed there, with the mosquitos and the bugs and the humidity, are urged to not escape because "Alligator Auschwitz" is surrounded by gators and pythons and other deadly creatures. And the Republicans laughed and put up signs and hoped for escapes so they could be entertained by the thought of a brown person being killed by gators. 

Meanwhile Trump has offered what is called "owner responsibility" which is fancy term for slavery. You see, Trump's goons take workers off farms or construction sites or ranches and then "sells' them back under "owner responsibility". The owner of the farm, ranch or whatever can have back his workers he paid under the table and not pay them at all now. Corporate America salivates over this concept as their already slave wages become actual slave wages. Nothing. All in the name of "shareholders" or "competitiveness" they will come up with new terms to justify their thievery and human trafficking. These are the moral lepers Trump appeals to.

We once fought a war over this. The concept that human beings could be bought and sold as unpaid slaves. The good guys won that war. 

Unfortunately, I am not sure the good guys would win this time. Theres's way too many people out there busting their ass waiting for the riches that will never come. Blaming the browns and the blacks and the gays and the chicks for fucking up their perceived Fatherland. Sorry rubes, the 1950s are not coming back. The tax cuts for the prosperous have been made permanent. And you aint getting any of it.

Resist