Going
Bananas!
 Every
July 4th the people of this country, except minimum-wage
workers at every retail operation, take a day off
from their
labors to celebrate
America's independence from
foreign powers.
In the same way I think the richest 400 families
in America ought to begin celebrating January 20th,
1981,
the day of Ronald Reagan's inauguration, as the day
this
country
took its first step towards becoming the true banana
republic it is today.
These
families have managed, over the past 30 years, to acquire
almost everything of real value in this country, not
to mention several foreign countries, so I think
they deserve
a moment in
the
sun
to gleefully
and triumphantly rub their wholly remarkable gift for
rapacity in our grubby little faces.
So here's to you, barbarous oligarchs!
It's a hard job being so ruthlessly insatiable but
take solace in the fact that someday, and someday soon,
you'll own literally everything in the world and your
horrendous labors will at last be at
an
end.
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Ellison Wonderland
 Back
in the summer of 1977 I was interning away at Don Punchatz's
Sketchpad Studio when famed sci-fi writer and cranky
young jew Harlan Ellison stopped by for a
visit. Don had illustrated several
covers
of Mr. Ellison's
books and so they were well known to one another.
I was tending to my business of sweeping the floor,
in all likelihood, so all I really remember of the
event was that he complained of simultaneously suffering
from
both
a
cold and
VD and was thus
"drooling
at
both
ends." Even
so, I think he managed to disappear into the late summer
evening with one of my female compadres in breathless,
starry-eyed tow.
I've dredged up this sordid recollection because
Beloved Girlfriend and I enjoyed a documentary this
weekend
featuring Mr.
Ellison
called
"Harlan Ellison: Dreams With Sharp Teeth".
It was hilarious from start to finish as Harlan has,
in
his own words, "no
off switch". I was amazed to discover, over the
course of 90 rollicking minutes, that he writes all
of his
books on a manual typewriter, and he's a two-fingered
typist.
Wow.
It's available on Netflix and I completely, thoroughly
and whole-heartedly recommend it.
=Lefty=
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Republican Job Creation Update
 "We're
going to have a relentless focus on creating jobs." -
John Boehner, February 10, 2011.
The following is #69 in a list of Republican
job creation activities
since they gained control of the House in 2011. None,
sad to
say,
have
yet to result in one, single new job.
(69) 8-22-2011: The GOP has a new job-creation plan...
to have one rammed down their throats.
You see, the
Democrats want to include a job-creation
trigger in
the new Super
Committee that will require the Republican Party to
vote either for or against it. To vote against it
would be, uhhh, dumb but I wouldn't put anything past
our little conservative pals. Stay tuned.
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