Todd's Mischief Blog

This video had me rolling: LINK MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff was one of a small group of reporters allowed inside the largest facility for immigrant children in the U.S. Jacob Soboroff: "It's essentially a prison." Soboroff: "It's truly an unbelievable thing to see. I mean, it's almost hard to wrap your head around." Soboroff: "You go inside and there are hundreds of kids at a time in line for chow, doing activities." Lawrence O'Donnell: "Uh, Jacob, have you seen any of the images or video that we're showing right now?" Soboroff: "I did catch a glimpse of them, Lawrence. One of the most striking ones ... there's a mural of ... Donald Trump right in that cafeteria." 🎭🎭🎭 To be fair, I can understand how scenes such as these might look terrifying to someone who's never been to public school.

How many must die before Trump is stopped? ~~~ Personally, I would pass up any pizza for a Stromboli. ~~~ Little Caesar’s is not pizza. ~~~ Jailing people for hate speech breaks up families. Checkmate liberals. ~~~ Abortion is to miscarriage as arson is to faulty wiring. ~~~ There are abundant reasons to reject the proposition that all religions are equal, but even without these, the fact that atheists hold it would be enough. ~~~ Him: "Where are you from?" Me: "Nebraska." Him: "Where’s your accent?" Me: 😑 ~~~ In order to facilitate the equal treatment of all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or creed, here is a list of all the ways one must treat minorities differently. ~~~ “Conservatives” have lost the distinction b/w “should not” and “must not.” This is why their “principles” are a cypher. One shouldn’t use vulgar language. At the same time, one mustn’t allow speech to be stifled simply because it’s vulgar. TruCons think both are “must no...

It seems obvious to me that comparing an entire race of people to animals is racist. What is less obvious is how comparing an individual or a coterie to animals can be called racist without smuggling in the decidedly racist notion that race is a person’s defining characteristic. Might I suggest that if a 2000-word essay, complete with citations and footnotes, is necessary to explain how uniquely  racist it is to compare a black person to a monkey, then maybe it's not as obviously racity-racist as you thought while you were furiously researching. Why, yes, I am aware that racists have called black people apes and monkeys. Racists tend to say mean things. Yet, somehow, calling people "stupid mother f***ers" has escaped the "racist" designation. By all means, please remind me how scientific racism relied on pseudoscience classifying blacks as simians to justify Social Darwinism. It's important to not forget how racist the Progressive Movement has historically b...

“I will interpret your well-known figure of speech as a literal statement to make myself seem smart.” ~~~ In the year 2052, The Southern Poverty Law Center reluctantly adds itself to its own list of hate groups, as it is the only organization left not on it. ~~~ The Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack is the best album of 2001. 2001 was a bad year for albums. Very few that could be enjoyed beginning to end. Though Napster was shut down, the writing had been on the wall for some time that albums were on the way out. Beautiful Garbage was a good offering that year. The Strokes’ Is This It  gets a lot of praise but it’s actually a slog to take in from start to finish. Slipknot isn’t my jam, but Iowa is probably their best known work. Most of the other albums that year were just vehicles for popular singles. See: Gorillaz, Alicia Keyes, Daft Punk, Weezer. ~~~ Runza makes the best onion rings. Don & Millies is 2nd. I’m never leaving this town. ~~~ Democrats today: Isolationism will ...

With all the Trump/Russia conspiracy theories in the mainstream news, constant handwringing over which country will declare war on Trump, and general criticism of Trump’s bombastic, hyperbolic oratory, it amuses me that such conventional complaints as “broken promises” continue to be leveled at the president.  It becomes especially amusing when the chorus continues unabated while the US moves its Israel embassy to Jerusalem, fulfilling a promise every president of the last quarter century has made. As I see it, this criticism comes mainly from three camps, with a few other varieties in between and at the margins. ● The person complaining is a wall-head. It won't matter if, at the end of eight years, unemployment is at 0.5%, the Democrat Party is in shambles, the race-divide is healed, Korea is reunified, Iran is led by a woman, and we're all puttering around the moon in self-driving Tesla-Xs. They won't be happy unless there's a border wall between the US and Mexico and...

The Masculine Ideal

Catholics in Space is a TV show that should totally exist. "On the next Catholics in Space, the crew of the Jesuit answer a hail from a band of Klaatu’s Witnesses. Thursday night at 7/6c." ~~~ The maximum allowable number of hashtags in your bio is zero. ~~~ Except... Walmart has free 2-day shipping on >$35, no membership.  Streaming video abounds now, including many decent free options.  The same is more true of music streaming.  Amazon Prime now includes some books, but it only has 37 titles so far.  Also, there's the library and most have digital lending. Plus, most box retailers have free site-to-store shipping with no minimums. So, no, there’s no all-in-one alternative to Prime, but one can have all the same benefits for a lower price tag if one cobbles a few things together. ~~~ The enemy of my enemy is such a flaming douche that not even my enemy can stand them. I am not inviting them to my birthday. ~~~ Toxoplasmic masculinity. ~~~ I'm taking a stand: Roll...