Please die soon.

Today on HuffPost there was this sad headline, "Horror Master Wes Craven Dies." Just above it, in an unrelated article, was a photo of this evil warmonger and mass murderer.  The headline for that story should have been, "Horror Master Dick Cheney Lives."

The media praises another pain in the ass.

This is going to sound very misanthropic, but the news is especially annoying today because it's letting so many stupid people off the hook. For starters Gregory Murrey, he's the moron who fell 40 feet  to his death at the Atlanta baseball stadium. Seems he got so carried away with his dislike of Alex Rodriguez he catapulted himself right through the guard rail. The news of course never mention that he was a jerk to do so. Another idiot this week was Miyuki Harwood, the 62-year-old who carelessly got separated from her hiking group and wandered off like an unsupervised tot. The result? She was lost for nine days in the Sierra National Forest. The news media made a big fuss about her rescue never mentioning that she was a thoughtless and careless idiot to put so many people at risk who had to go searching for her. Finally, while I think the unprovoked shooting of a police officer Darren Goforth at a gas station in Harris County, Texas, was a terrible tragedy, I think it's ludicrous to hold a vigil at that gas station because it was the site of his death.  I think most of the many mourners are merely ghouls who want to be part of a news story. Also ridiculous are the de rigeur balloons and stuffed animals which always create a maudlin display. The news of course always covers such sentimentality with insipid seriousness.

Under two rocks.

Is there any creature on earth lower than Donald Trump. Absolutely. Sarah Palin is even scummier than Donald. And she proved it the other night on her interview with him during her show On Point with Sarah Palin. As we all know Sarah is a brainless narcissist, a quitter, a liar, and a phenomenal failure at everything she does. She's generally an arrogant cipher only interested in gaining glory for herself. But on this interview she took the role as toady. She was an ass-kissing obsequious fan, flattering Donald throughout, genuflecting, kowtowing, salaaming with every worshipful sentence. She was the 18 wpm secretary so eager to gain a job her every utterance promised whatever kind of obeisance the great man wanted. What a delight it was to see this harridan brought so low and see this arrogant fool so addicted to false flattery that he preened at every word from one of the world's most famous liars.

"Evil thy name is Dick."

There are lots of despicable Republicans. The GOP practically has a monopoly on creepy, soulless, cheating, war-mongering, hypocritical liars. But there's one who stands head and shoulders above all the others. He's nastier, angrier, balder, older, and deadlier than all than anyone else. And despite being out of power—and surprisingly out of prison—he still has an Adjutant General and Propaganda Minister which he produced from his own poisoned loins to assure that she would be as evil as him. Amazingly this old rattlesnake is still hissing and spewing poison everywhere he goes, which shouldn't surprise you because he only looks like a nonagenarians. Which is a pity because while he often moans like he's at death's door, he always survives to crawl or wheel from city to city with his blonde-helmeted nursemaid daughter making false accusations, dire predictions and unprovoked attacks. Many have compared this mass-murdering monster to Darth Vader, which is ridiculous. Next to Dick, Darth seems practically adorable.

Shame on me.

It isn't nice to judge people on their looks. But,  god, this man is ugly. 

No longer perfect. Ha. Ha Ha.

Are we becoming a nation of Philistines? When a major work of art is damaged it should be considered a sad event and in many cases a cultural catastrophe. But this week, when a clumsy boy carrying a soda can tripped into a 350-year-old painting worth 1.5 million dollars, leaving a gash in the art work, both NBC and ABC News considered it an amusing story. Neither one of their tongue-in-cheek reports suggested that this damaging of a painting titled Flowers in a Taiwan museum was in any way a bad thing. First of all this clumsy oaf should have been supervised, and secondly why was he allowed to carry a soda can through a museum? But he's young and stupid and not expected to know better, but the editors at NBC and ABC should have enough intelligence to know that this story should not be treated as comical filler. Boorish jerks!

Note: I'm surprised these networks weren't roaring with hilarity
when ISIS destroyed the ancient city of Palmyra.

"It's so clever."

Every year I choose my favorite commercial. Generally it is a funny spot, and one with which you never get bored no matter how many times you see it. (That's very rare today when so many commercials should be seen only once then disappear forever.) The trouble with this year's choice is that I cannot post it because it doesn't seem to be anywhere on YouTube (not even a still shot). I wonder why. Possibly because some people have suggested that it's gay since it features two young men in a car, one seeming to be uncomfortable with the other's familiarity. But who knows? Some people see gay in everything. I just think it's hilarious, brilliantly acted, and happily never unwelcome since it runs quite a lot. The commercial is for the Toyota Corolla in which one guy is admiring his friend's wisdom in choosing a  car with so many features, especially the one he considers most appealing, which he expresses in his last rhapsodic line, "It's so roomy".