When I was in Junior High school ( back in the late 70’s) I wrote a short story for my English class about people having to submit their children’s birth certificates to ” The License Department” to be approved. If it wasn’t, the babies got taken away and had to go to an Orphanage in the desert.
The babies actually got left in the desert in cardboard boxes to die and the area they got left in was called ” Orphans Cradle”
My teacher- Mr Hall said it was such a ridiculous story that he wouldn’t grade it. I had to write something else.
Fuck you, Mr. Hall- you should have graded my paper.
In a significant decision on Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court permitted the Trump administration to move forward with its controversial plan to curtail automatic birthright citizenship — a policy shift that could have major implications for immigration and constitutional rights.
Gen X Kids used to do this thing where we would throw lawn darts straight up into the air and dodge out of the way at the last minute. Nobody I knew ever lost an eye, but a bunch of us that weren’t so swift of foot have little round scars around our ears.
I also remember our parents would be sitting on the patio, watching us dodge lawn darts and shooting roman candles off into each other’s faces while they were chain smoking and not caring if they were going to end up in the Emergency Room with their kid at the end of the night .
I can honestly say- I feel sorry for the generations who came after us. They didn’t get to test their mortality, win and have a story to tell.
They have avatars do it all for them.
Here’s my advice go out and buy a set of Lawn Darts a pack of Roman Candles and do NOT follow the safety instructions because living stupid is better then not living at all.
[Verse 1]
It was the third of July
And the weather was fine
Ed brought the hotdogs
The croquet set was mine
But the red ball was missing
And three mallets were bent
Ed suggested lawn darts
So to Kmart we went
We looked by the yard games
We looked by the grills
But we couldn’t find lawn darts
Come high water or hills
We talked to the salesclerk
But she started to cry
She said “They’re off the shelves now”
And she told us both why
[Chorus]
A kid was pegged
In the head
With a lawn dart
Her dad
Didn’t see her
That’s the worst part
I used to work in a crematorium- not as fancy looking as the Bradford Crematorium- but I can tell you what could be behind the wall in this picture.
I’m sure that room I worked in exists in all crematoriums, but in different versions of course.
Besides the obvious and less decorative machinery involved in this process, at the Crematorium I worked in there was an easy chair for you to sit on ( or a bars tool at the work table ) and next to the chair was a little shelf stock with Stephen King paperback novels and Archie comic books.
Down the little hallways was a room where we kept the unclaimed cremains on sturdy metal shelves ( some of them in very fancy urns, some in plain and dignified urns.)
Behind that room was a place where, stored in plastic totes- were the toys that we collected from graves after they had been there for awhile and the elements were beginning to take their toll on them.
And now you have an idea- what was behind this wall- and what you could find if you ever have the chance to peek behind one yourself.
I think that before President Biden leaves the White House, he should set up a website called
ESGUSODA FI
ESGUSODA FI is Welsh for
Pardon Me.
So if you are a person of color, if you are a journalist, if you have more Republicans sniffing around your hoochie then there are stars in the Universe and YOU had the audacity to tell them to take their noses and hands elsewhere, if you are someone that Republicans define as ” woke ” then there should be a form you can fill out and when all of the names are in, President Biden should issue a blanket Pardon to everyone on it.
We saw what happened when President Biden issued a Pardon to his son in order to protect him from an unhinged Trust Fund Baby who danced on stage for 40 minutes because Trump THOUGHT out of all the ideas that he has had this was a great idea.
A lot of people lost their collective brain cell.
There was no NEED to make a move like that cried the Republicans.
Oh sure, if I were Hunter’s Mom, I’d leave my son to the Mercy of a deranged convicted felon with his tiny little hands on the nuclear launch code.
Psyche.
I’d go full on Anne Wilkes ( from Misery) on my Pardon-Issueing President Husband and I insist he write out a pardon.
Annie Wilkes: God came to me last night and told me your purpose for being here. I am going to help you write a new book PARDON
Paul Sheldon: You think I can just whip one out?
Annie Wilkes: Oh, but I don’t think Paul, I know.
I should add that some Democrats in office thought Hunter’s pardon was ‘bad for America and Democracy ‘ and of course so did a lot of people in the media but you know what:
I have zero F*&Ks to give where THOSE stains on democracy think. Ignore them. They’re jerks.
So my idea is AWESOME even though it may sound like a joke and it made me laugh.
But it’s not as if my funny bone has been tickled and I’m laughing with mirth.
All of the hairs stand up on my neck when I think about Trump and his cabinet chock full convicts and rapists and thieves descending upon the White House to finish off the devastation he created the last time he was there.
