Video coming soon.
Father’s Day Trip to Carmel, Monterey & Point Lobos Area
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Bobby’s Gig at Brainwash
Video coming soon.
Wieners in DC
I definitely respect Wiener for exposing (sorry) the ugly side of politics over the many years he was in Washington.
Democrats take the position of resigning when they are caught with their pants off (even if there is no insinuation of physical contact with women on the other side of the country), but there is something that precious few talk show pundits have been discussing in recent weeks. The difference between the Wiener scandal and all of the other, ignoble, far more egregious and often criminal cases of salacious sexual impropriety among Repubs, is solely that the Repubs have not been caught engaging in their exploits on camera. The pictures went viral because they could go viral. It was far too easy for Wiener to have accidentally mixed his public photo cache with his very private cache. He doesn’t sound like the most tech-savvy guy in the world to begin with.
In principle, I’m not surprised how many people have x-rated photos of themselves online, even headless ones and even among heterosexuals, although I would wager that far fewer women are asking to see body parts before taking someone in the ether very seriously. I’m not surprised that the exchange of pictures is not dominated by teenagers, as some reports have recently shown, but let’s remember that Anthony Wiener was not in Congress lecturing others about sexual morality and he was certainly not preaching his views to the public about what people should do in their private lives.
I wish Wiener luck on his new marriage and prospective fatherhood. I don’t think they should try to make him to go rehab. No no no.
My Droid can’t spell “Droid”.
Further to my rants about the auto-correction on my new Android phone, I’m surprised that every single time I type in the word “Droid” I get “agreed”. I realize that this technology is improving, and that this new phone probably needs to get used to some of the colloquialisms I use, but I can’t believe this is forcing me to remember some of the alternatives when I don’t notice the changes until later.
It’s also amazing to me how curse words are never in the dictionary, even when they are REAL words, like “shit”. It seems a bit paternalistic to me.
Bleeping Autotext!
My sister wrote me from her smart phone that she was “Just putting her daughter to sleep” and would write me more later, but the autotext resulted in her saying she was AMPUTATING her daughter, so I quickly texted back to leave my niece alone!
My Yorkie Monte turns three years old today!
Video of Bobby’s recent Orlando gig
Pinko Liberals?
I usually agree with 99% of what Religulous filmmaker Bill Maher says and 95% of what Michael Moore says, and I still don’t consider myself to be that liberal. The U.S. population is just artificially puritanical.
Bill Maher let mainstream Republicans and conspiracy theorists have it in a major response rant to the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden (reposted via Politicus USA):
“Now that it’s become clear that the Republicans, the fiscally conservative strong on defense party are neither fiscally conservative nor strong on defense, they have to tell us what exactly it is they’re good at. It’s not defense. 9/11 happened on your watch, and you retaliated by invading the wrong country, and you lost a 10 year game of hide and seek with Osama Bin Laden, and you’re responsible for running up most of the debt, which more than anything makes us weak.”
“You’re supposed to be the party with the killer instinct, but it was a Democrat who put a bomb in Gadhafi’s bedroom, and bullet in Bin Laden’s eye like Moe Green. Raising the question how many Muslims does a black guy have to kill in one weekend before crackers climb down off his ass? Let’s look at some facts. Now for you Fox News viewers feel free to turn down the sound until the flashing facts light at the bottom of your screen disappears.”
White Supremacist Shot by Ten Year Old Son
This story gets crazier by the day. This “up and coming” Nazi (there’s nothing “neo” about them) in southern California gave his child his own gun. Within 24 hours that son had killed his father with it. I cannot imagine someone filled with so much hate or vitriol being a good father to anyone, but this is where the story gets really outrageous. While I don’t know the condition of the mother of this boy, or how many of the five children in the house were from Nazi Jeff Hall’s first wife, at one point in time some judge, presumably in the family court system, awarded custody to this openly racist, race-baiting trash of a father!! I’m all for father’s getting fair treatment when it comes to determining the best interest of the child, as I was fortunate enough to have primary custody of my daughter throughout her rearing, but I can’t help but be reminded of the case in Florida where the woman lost custody of her daughter for being lesbian to her ex-husband, who was convicted of murder and child molestation!
More DADT Drama!
Now that the military’s sad DADT policy has been stricken, they decided just now that they will not allow gay weddings on military bases. This is a ruse. The Repubs are looking for anything incendiary that they can talk about on CSPAN and Fox “News” sound bites. Shouldn’t the more important question be: “Why are ANY marriages allowed on base?” As a purportedly liberal taxpayer, why should the facilities of the military be used to celebrate “holy” unions between opposite sex couples OR same sex couples?!