Bondi terror victims” reads the headline, referring to the hate-fueled Australian savagery. First quick mispronounce might cause one to wonder: What has she done now? Not even remotely comparable behavior, of course. But that name haunts a person’s consciousness. Unredact the files!

Great idea from a guest on MSNBC tonight. If the courts allow Trump to run again in 2028, why could we not see Trump v Obama?

Mark Twain’s been posting: “Of all the animals, man is the only one who is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.” “… humorous… the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.” “Where every man has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.”

“No civilization can be perfect until exact quality between men and women is included.” “We are called the nation of inventors… We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented – – which was human liberty.”

So the repugs are stealing $ from blue states (who sent in most of the same $ in the first place.) Well if they don’t have it, they can’t misspend it. Can there be a trust or escrow to collect blue $ and send it to D.C. only when appropriate? Nah. Our little blue bank would be robbed at tank point.

Trump is CRUEL & callous, clueless & coarse, crooked & cliquish but clownish & crude. Crass & conceited, condescending & cocky, compulsive & cutthroat but corrupt & cartoonish. He’s a cheater and charlatan, a carnalistic cad & a cacophonous caterwaul, capricious & cantankerous. cagey and caballing.

His fans are cultish, his words are calumnies, his plans are cataclysmic. This could go on, of course. It is tragic that we have a prez whose qualities can be summarized in a tongue twister of negative terms. Not funny. Maybe an A to Z book would lend gravity. Creative artists….?

My garage holds an assortment of empty boxes saved with the vague belief that they would someday be perfect for containing something. Trump’s been inventing phony indictments in the firm belief that he can find political enemies to charge them with. Empty boxes in search of stuff. No easy fits tho.

We know the GOP wants to privatize public schools. For 40+ yrs the feds have honored a very few “Blue Ribbon Schools.” This year’s winners were informed in August, told to keep it quiet until Sec McMahon announces, and THEN told “oops—whole thing cancelled.” Petty cruelty to kids and teachers.

Someone on here recently proposed an RFK Jr Death Meter to be published regularly to tally the rising number of preventable deaths. I second the motion, and now propose one dedicated to Florida numbers. Neither will likely be workable, though, cuz the agencies will be sure to hide the “sadistics.”

The Trump USA Bible (KJV) Revelation 21:8 states that “the fearful (GOP congress)…abominable (ICE)…murderers (Kennedy, Rubio)…whoremongers (Epstein,etc)…idolaters (Cabinet) and ALL LIARS shall be in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” MAGAs stockpiling the aspestos?

The press “normalizes” Trump. His lying is legendary, but even outrageous lies are often prefaced with “Here’s what he said today.” Sometimes noted with a mild “without evidence.” Perhaps a routine “He’s lying to you (us) again. Here’s what he declared today!”

Chicago black women want troops in their streets. The Maryland governor thinks I am great. I reduced D.C. crime rate in just 6 days. Mail-in voting is everywhere fraudulent and controlled by Dems. (Mail-in voting was installed and maintained by elected GOP officials in WA.)

Consider the story of the Golden Calf where worshipers (taxpayers?) melted their own jewelry to create a false god. Now our own king midas, idol of the sublimely hypocritical christian right, has sprayed our former white house with his golden vulgarity. How will they spin this one in Sunday school?

Stephen Miller, Secretary of Racism, once gave a high school speech complaining about having to pick up his trash when there were janitors paid to do that. Perhaps on the distant day when he is convicted of crimes against humanity, he could be sentenced to life on a roadside litter crew.

In the late sixties, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was abruptly canceled by CBS over controversial political satire. Stephen Colbert, meet Dick and Tommy.

So the flaxen klaxon (MTG) has submitted a bill criminalizing human efforts to modify the weather. But a major plank of the GOP cult is to deny that such a thing is even possible. Make up your mind, Marge. Guess we’ll be able to bring charges against the polluters being immunized by Trump.

Three (at least) unelected co-presidents: Elon, Bibi, S. Miller.

Trump’s press lady proudly flaunted her hypocritical gold cross most days until Colbert shamed her. Might as well have been a plus sign—since her behavior is not even lower case christian. Better yet, a division symbol. That’s their creed.

My father and father-in-law spent some of the 1940s in Europe (Anzio, Normandy) to Hitler-proof our ocountry. He got in anyway. We canceled our Disney+ account now that the Mouse has begun to fire its ABC news folks for speaking truth. Ain’t much…but feels good.

Ian Tyson (1933-2022) was a gifted (very) musical historian of “cowboy culture” along the Rockies—Canadian and American. Almost entirely apolitical.. Buried in an introspective song, (“This Is My Sky”) about drifting south into Montana searching for an old flame) are these words from 20 yrs ago:

Here they are, the sweetgrass hills, down along the medicine line… Sweet America comin' off the rails, that's what liеs and money do…”

Is not Jen Psaki doing a great job in the absence of Rachel? Slicing up the king and his court with concise precision. And with a congenial demeanor.

In Nov of 1805, Lewis & Clark were trapped on the north bank of the Columbia River. A ferocious wind and rain storm had stopped progress just short of the Pacific. The choices: remain cold, wet and hungry in their “dismal nitch” or attempt a river crossing.

The two Captains could have decided the issue, of course, but they chose to poll the entire party. The vote was to cross the river. In addition to the enlisted men, a vote was granted to Sacagawea, a Shoshone woman who joined the party as a guide months earlier.

Her vote may have been the first ever cast in official U.S. business by a woman or Native American. Now advance 220 years, to the proposed SAVE Act which could disenfranchise millions of Americans—mostly women who may have been voting for decades. The GOP time machine is roaring in reverse gear.

Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA), has introduced a bill to socialize college sports—The Restore College Sports Act which would dismantle the NCAA. Huge sums of media money would be distributed to all colleges and all sports to all athletes. Share the wealth and don’t neglect the little guy.

But Rep. Baumgartner’s concern seems to not extend beyond controlling the wealth that defines college sports. The poverty rate in his mostly rural district is higher than the national average. Food programs, rural hospitals, etc will be harmed by the GOP budget that Mr. Baumgartner supports.

So welfare for wide receivers on the Washington State football team (in his district), but not even gruel for grade schoolers in little Washougal. Keep us distracted with circuses but never mind the bread. Hypocrisy thrives in Eastern Washington.

On March 17 I played music (mostly rowdy Irish tunes like “Red Haired Boy” and “Smash the Windows”) with some friends, but we ended the session with the traditional Irish toast: The Parting Glass.