Ho, ho. I beat the rush to the exit after The Washington Post‘s management stepped on its editorial dick by declining to endorse a candidate in the pestilential erection. I had already canceled my account based on the plummeting value of their homepage, not the cowardice of the ownership.
Not long ago the WaPo was beating The New York Times like a dusty rug when it came to good, old-fashioned, nut-cutting hard news. Now they pretty much both stink, but at least Mother Times offers some good recipes to take the vile smell out of your nostrils. Plus she still employs a friend of mine.
So I’ll try to forget that the topside of today’s homepage is spattered with shit like “25 Jump Scares That Still Make Us Jump,” “What’s It Like to Tail the Vice President?,” and “Nobody Told Me This Would Happen to My Body in My 40s.”
I’d serve up a critique of the content, if I had clicked on any of it. Alas, I moved on with great haste.
At least the NYT doesn’t start bullshitting you right up there in the flag, like the WaPo. “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” me bollocks. What management does in the darkness you can see in the balcony at any adult theater. Tidy up afterward and check the phone to see if anyone Bezos has business with has invited you to a cocktail party. No? Might as well go lay off a few columnists, if they haven’t all quit already. Only one opinion counts at the newspaper in the nation’s capital, even if it’s mostly being expressed from mansions in Miami, SoCal, or low earth orbit.
Of course, if Jesus Hitler prevails on Nov. 5, it won’t mean much to the WaPo’s owner. Bezos is a podium billionaire, runner-up on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. And when JH (No. 432) croaks any and all contracts with Blue Origin because Elon (No. 1) was the last guy in the Oval Office to kiss his ass when the deal went down, well … maybe the internment camps can double as Amazon fulfillment centers.
Hey, a dollar isn’t red or blue. It’s green, baby.
Mad Blog Media 
Still flippin’ the bird at the dRumpf/shillbilly trash.
Good man y’self. Me too. Agent Orange is said to be holding a rally here on Thursday. Be a great time to burgle all the dummies’ houses.
My subscription ends soon and NYT has a 52-dollar special. Damn shame the WAPO helped the country through the ’70s and ’80s but KG’s time moved on but still hard to admit the Billionaire screwed the pooch. I can’t believe that people are too stupid to recognize the deranged, senile, stupid, whoremongering piece dog crap is bad for the country. Too much money must really tint the lenses of reality perception.
I’d like to know the thinking behind this project. Either “they” think they can control Agent Orange (wrong) or he’ll have a “heart attack” after The Vengeance Tour satisfies the dummies’ blood lust and then Max Factor (Vance) can step up and be the pretty face of fascism.
Or something else. Maybe it’s a good thing I can’t get into their heads.
If dumpster wins, the billionaire brats will have him gone in the first year. Their bought and paid for guy, who will do as he’s told, is vance. You know, a real Manchurian candidate.
See, I can make up a conspiracy. I should get a youtoob channel.
Vance would eat a mile of shit and enjoy every minute of it, grinning like a jackass eating yellowjackets.
Old Herb is in decidedly the “undecided” group. As in I can’t decide whether I’d rather pound 20 lbs. of sand up Vance’s ass with a mallet or….strap him to the roof of my van and drive through downtown Detroit laying on the horn .
Might be amusing to strip the Yale Hillbilly down to his knickers, superglue about 20 pounds of pork chops to the exposed flesh, and then airdrop him into griz country, follow him around with a video drone. But of course (he says for the Secret Service), that would be wrong. …
How about we get him to pull a kudzu runner through a yellow jacket nest? Don’t ask me how I know that is a bad thing, but he deserves it.
Meanwhile, here’s an interesting idea: Cancel your Amazon Prime.
Ellen Cushing argues that Amazon is how Bezos got big enough to buy the WaPo in the first place, and that cutting into his bottom line instead of the WaPo’s is more sensible than simply canceling your WaPo subscription:
Never bought anything from amazon and never will. Will never own a tesla product. Everybody tells me what about the workers? Gaslighting my ass again are we? It’s not
like they are employee owned outfits, are they? The one thing I can control is where my money goes.
Living in what’s known as a “C” market, many of the retailers here never have stock of many things I need. So it’s been off to Amazon and thank you for the free shipping while there. However last year I swore off Amazon and found more and more companies are selling direct on updated websites AND since they are being gouged by Amazon, by selling direct they can sometimes offer free shipping at reasonable purchase levels. What soured me on Amazon was their insistence in showing me products other than what I had typed in by model/brand. Couldn’t agree more with POB….
I don’t buy nuttin’ from the sonsabitches either. I’ve always taken a dim view of Amazon for its part in strangling the local bookseller (you may recall that Herself once was in the books biz).
However, I spend “liberally” (rimshot) at Whole Foods, and I’m starting to think I need to reconsider this practice. The sticking points are (1) they have almost everything I require from a grocery, so I can mostly do my week’s shopping in a single trip, and (2) most of the workers I deal with are pleasant and helpful, which makes me think they are decently treated.
The Sprouts is closer, but less well stocked, and the turnover seems slightly spectacular. Based on eavesdropping I know more than a few of the grunts work at more than one store. Not everyone turns that frown upside down before clocking in.
Smith’s sucks. Albertson’s is embroiled in the Kroger merger and has the smallest organic section I’ve ever seen. Natural Grocers serves a niche, as does Trader Joe’s. Decisions, decisions. …
Of course when we shop at Whole Foods (or as a certain blogger refers to it, Wholezon Amafoods), we are shopping at Amazon, at least since what, 2017? We think the quality and diversity took a hit when Bezos bought the place. That said, there is some stuff we can’t find elsewhere (and since ’17, not there either) so on occasion we shop there. Otherwise, for the most part Sprouts, La Montanita (life members) and Natural Grocers suffices albeit with less convenience. Plus, the WF up here is at the most inconvenient and tricky intersection in the city (Cerrillos and St. Francis, with the train crossing for gravy) and I simply try to avoid that intersection. It attracts bad driving like a salt lick attracts deer.
The Albertson’s up here is pretty good and I hope it stays that way. Smiths, now and as far back as I can remember, has always sucked in Bombtowne and Santa Fe.
Your Foods Hole is Death, for sure. Worst parking lot in the known universe, or it was the last time I visited it, anyway.
Kroger is supposed to close/sell a bunch of Albertsons in New Mexico if the deal goes down. The one I visit from time to time, at Tramway and Academy, is on the sell list. It’s more like a Target or Walmart than a grocery … everything you don’t need and damn little you do.
They do have my Kerrygold Blarney cheese, though, dammit. And Twinings Irish Breakfast tea in them big-ass boxes.
I get WaPo free on my lab computer account as long as I am a card-carrying member of the military-industrial-nuclear complex. Not that I give a shit about newspaper endorsements when I vote, but this was naked self interest by Bezos.
Looks like bozo is back dooring the xman.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-elon-musk-student-visa-work-fbd836b3de358148cda16c273ff904c4
I was kitefoiling across the etherwaves listening to Belle and stumbled across a little music that Mr. Mercury would enjoy:
Ho ho ho. I was just thinking about the original the other day. Herself found a Queen “greatest hits” CD at an estate sale … and it didn’t contain “Bohemian Rhapsody!”
No “Bohemian Rhapsody,” no “greatest hits.” Them’s the rules.