America Hates a Bully

Rush is betting those who agree with him will outnumber those who don't. As advertisers flee he is hanging tough and figuring the rich and powerful  never really can be knocked down by a young woman. Safe assumption. Mount Rush is mighty and it would be hard to believe all that hate could disappear from the radio landscape just because he called a woman a slut and a prostitute and wanted to see her having sex online. I mean we live in an age where Rap songs can scorch your ears and if you want filth just punch in sex and surf away. But Americans can't stomach a bully and that might do Rush in.

We also have this thing about picking on women. Maybe it is a bit retrograde but manners still matter and men still hold the door open for women and pull out chairs and let them walk in front of them. Americans are funny that way. We can be incredibly crass if not rude, but we value chivalry between the sexes and Rush violated just about every rule there is. More than that he beat up on a woman expressing her views and if Rush was in a neighborhood and did that he would be shunned.

But Rush lives in his own neighborhood and sets the rules and like most people who become ridiculously rich and powerful they don't believe the rules pertain to them. Not true Rushy my boy. Americans will listen to your rants as long as you stay in your box. They like your tirades because they appeal to the strange dark thoughts we all have. But they really don't want you in their homes. They don't want someone like you dating their daughters.

Simply put in the old Virginia patois of my birth. You sir, are a cur.

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Have you left no sense of decency...Rush?

Could Rush Limbaughs  last stand really be here? Might a college student be the Senator who spoke out a hearing on the House of Un American Activities sixty some years ago and took down Joe McCarthy finally ending McCarthyism and the destroying of American lives by a man who spewed paranoia and hate under the guise of rooting out Communists in government after the end of World War II. Could Rush's final moment be the result of calling a girl a slut and a prostitute, finally overstepping the bounds that seem to have no bounds for right wing demigods and radio talk shows hosts who cowered anyone who dared to cross them? We can only hope.

That Rush would bash a young woman for wanting contraception is standard,  that it might topple the Limbaughian Empire is a perfect comeuppance for a man who has made a living out of spreading hate. Everyone knows what Rush Limaugh has been about but the question has always been  what to do with someone who abuses Free Speech and hijacks the airwaves for nefarious purposes. How do you get something as nebulous as a foul stench off the public beltway and back into the sewer it came from. Not so easy in a democracy.

But like most Demigods Rush eventually became his own worst enemy. By testing the limits in a medium that seems to have none he naturally found the ceiling and cemented his level of incompetency by trying to destroy an innocent expressing her right to free speech and free expression. That this was a young woman who had no agenda in the cause, but to have an employer or insurance company pay for contraception, expressing the rights of all woman; was a perfect set up for the McCarthy moment. And Rush being Rush took the bait hook line and sinker.

And now of course he is backpedaling like a dog who sees he is is too far from shore and is not quite sure he can make it back. He has apologized on his website but there is blood in the water and the sharks have come for their due. The whole right wing witch hunt Foxian strategy of destroying opposition with hate, derision, fear, insult, and oblivion is now in open water for all to see. And Rush will find that his vaunted followers and supporters will let a fat man drown lest they take take on too much water themselves.

So maybe this is it for Rush Limbaugh. We can only hope the words that sent the Senator from Wisconsin finally disgraced and back to his home state to die as an alcoholic will ring again in the Limbaugh ear for the young woman he tired to destroy and the hundreds if not thousands of people he has hurt;  if only in the presence of a dead microphone and an empty studio...Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

Probably not.

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Republicans need to get laid more

The dudes who aren't getting any are always the grouchiest. Cranky. In college guys would just get kind of bitchy and you knew they weren't scoring. And they hated the guys who had all the girls. Males need sex like females need sex but maybe males need it more. We just get kind of weird and withdrawn and go off on weird tangents like who should get birth control or should women be insured at all (see the Blunt amendment just defeated)  And so you have to wonder if the Republicans (the males) are getting any.
I would say not.

How else could you explian a guy like Ric Santorum? Talk about Mr. Fun. Mr. Sexually frustrated telling everyone they shouldn't use contraception. He and Ron Paul were the wild and crazy guys at the last debate telling everyone they have a morality problem because that's what sex is without marriage. Hmmm. Then the rest of the chastity belt gang swung in and now you have lots of tight collar white guys telling women they really should have an invasive ultrasound before that abortion (cue morality police) Better yet just don't have sex unless you are making babies like big Rick.

And the Blunt Amendment almost made it through and bluntly almost knocked women right off the pill and anything else an employer might have to fork out for...So sorry ladies. No more sex. No more pills. It goes against our religious beliefs. Better yet...QUIT HAVING SEX. Look how well adjusted we are. Just go ask all those dudes in the Catholic church how celibacy works for them. Or how about Rush beating up on the college student because she wants some contraception. Slut is the word the fat one used. Nice Rush. Real nice. Now there is a guy who really needs to get laid.

Well...I digress. But you really have to believe that all this could be avoided if Republicans just got some.You know just some bed banging great sex, then they could light up a cigarette, order a pizza, fire up the DVR and call it a day. Yeah...contraception they'ld murmur. I get it.

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Death of a Monkee

A Monkee has bit the dust and left us one less for our lunchboxes. That someone who had adorned lunchboxes across American and crooned in studio produced albums as part of a retread Beatle shtick meant to capitalize on mop head mania American style should not detract from the question of do pop icons of any kind deserve notice in their passing? Forget the thousands of writers and painters and sculptures who slip earths surly bonds without a notice much less a headline on the CNN website. Such are the vagaries of pop culture.

Should we care about a Davy Jones inserted into the one the more inane shows to paint sixties pop culture of Beverly Hills Get Smart Brady Bunch landscape. Should someone who did nothing more than star in something so forgettable that no one could tell you if they really sang or if they could play or if they were even actors. They were the first boy band brought together by marketeers in a network board room who concepted a group that might siphon Beatle mania into ratings and possible album sales. And amazingly it worked. For a while.

The Monkees were hot in the way any knock off brand is that is cheaper and more accessible. The Beatles were busy with Sergent Peppers while the Monkees were perfecting Last Train to Clarksville or the unforgettable Day Dream Believer. Lennon was contemplating greater things already with Abbey Road while Davey and the boys considered they might have talent and wanted more of a role in singing. They got it as the show was cancelled and the Monkees disbanded a year later to no fanfare.

So the nostalgia tours for Davy kicked up. A poster in a sandwich shop showed he had appeared in the Arcade Theatre in St. Charles Illinois and did his favorites. And he was a Vegetarian who ran every day right up to his heart attack. So the passing of a Monkee is brought to us and should we care? Do we care about our old albums and lunchboxes and those weird TV land reruns where people marvel that this was entertainment forty some years ago?

Probably not so much.

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The President...what a...SNOB!

Snobs go to college.  Snobs go to Ivy League schools. Snobs become lawyers. Snobs are President of the Law Review. Snobs become President. ABC equals Z in Santormi land. Even when he loses he wins. Grinning like a Cheshire cat he announces his loss in Michigan and Arizona. Yeah baby we lost. They  know us now. But I digress. The latest pathetic evolution of dumb and dumber is to play the really dumb American who believes upward mobility is elitism and the biggest elitists in the world is a black man from a broken family who managed to go college and then become President. What a (drum roll) SNOB!

And so Ricky has put the reverse back into the American Dream and finished off what George Bush started with the implicit implication that anyone who is smarter than you is suspect. Especially a  black guy who became President. But mothers do not let your children grow up to become College Students because then they will be subject to libertine influences and bearded Mao dictating Socialist and Communists reading Kerouac's On The Road advocating sex and drugs and by the way no contraception allowed ala Ricky.

So do not even think about the SATs or ACT's. Be happy you are uneducated and stay that way. Elitists are merely smart people who think they are smarter than everyone else. Again,(drum rolll) ...what a SNOB! Imagine people who think their kids might  not have to work in a factory or at a gas station. They should be happy for their wage and their job and to think they might go to college and get a job that puts them in a higher income bracket or gives them a leg up is very un American and reminds one of that guy in the White House who encourages education....what a (drum roll) ...SNOB!

I would hate to think what that makes Mr. Three Degrees. Mr. Home school because public education is not good enough for his kids. Mr. Religion elitist who sits on Mount Chasity and looks down on all the fornicating masses having kids out of wedlock and spreading the devils will while he sits in Congress among the one percent and has the best health care in the world and the best advantages....Jesus! What a...(drumroll one more time) ....SNOB!

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The Santorum Dark Ages

Santorum is a nightmare and fits the times. America has gone back to some sort of retro Salem Witch Trial era where people really believe in witches and devils and the liberal socialist monster under the bed. The fact people are talking about religion in daily life and that colleges indoctrinate people away from piety and conservatism and that religion is under attack because of contraception and that the Republicans are falling over themselves to sound like demagogic crusaders from the dark ages is nothing short of pathetic.

Mr. Homeschool doesn't want anyone to think for themselves least of all his kids.  Universities are the bastion of the devil with their lefty progressive agenda of free thinking and libertine ideals. College students drink and fornicate and get stoned. Damned liberals. And they form opinions. Land of the free does not pertain to people making their own decisions. Santorum is the preeminent fascist in thought and deed as he decries Obama and the secret agenda against religious liberties. It is all so much insanity.

And how sad the country has devolved to pitchforks and lanterns. The number of Pro Life Pro Gun stickers have increased proportionally and Santorum would  have us believe   the country is rolling straight back to a rural sensibility where the one room school house is suspect in comparison to the teachings of home and heart. Santorum is really a lunatic who has slipped through the lunatic fringe and managed to take his myopic my way or the highway views that in normal times would have kept him from graduating from the first Republican debate.

But times being what they are people look for extreme people to voice extreme solutions for problems that are in essence unsolvable. The country has evolved into a global tech based behemoth that has disenfranchised millions and will continue to do so. This bewilderment of a recession without end and hard times abounding where houses are worthless and jobs scarce, lets the crazies out to do their Halloween dance and scare hell out of everybody. Rick will never have his moment more than right now in the glare of the witches and goblins that people the paranoid world of Santormi.

Enjoy your fifteen minutes Ricky.

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Why Watching the Oscars Is Hard

Watching the Oscars is hard. Take Chris Rock. He had to let everyone know that he got a million bucks for just doing his lines in an animated movie. Must be rough. At a time when most writers are eating beans or not eating at all the Oscars is a night of those at the very tippy top of the very tippy top. They are people who through luck, talent, ingenuity, the fates, have hit the mother lode and we can all watch them accept these awards thanking everyone from God to mom.

And you have to wonder if there is a chance to hit that mountain through hard work. Maybe so. Maybe hard work and talent could put you there. Maybe it is something else, something people don't like to think about and that is the odds. Lets take a hundred thousand writers. Fifty thousand of them are good. Twenty five thousand are very good. Five thousand are extraordinary. One thousand are genius level. One hundred of those one thousand produce screenplays or novels.  Ten of those left over get a movie made. One gets to the Oscars.

Now take that pool and double it. Now you are talking about a group of people who are good  but there are only so many slots. So now you roll the dice. Luck. You need luck. Maybe luck is not yours to be had no matter how many times you try. It is just not your lot. The cards didn't fall your way and that's even worse than not having the talent to be up there.

So you watch the Oscars. You watch the people who have passed. You are on a clock that will only run so long. You watch those people thank everyone they know. Hell yes. Wouldn't you?

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