By Jack Brummet
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Monday, February 22, 2016
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Great quotes from Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.
Quotes from one of the best books on Presidential politics ever. . . (Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72):
- “If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”
- “How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?”
- “McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose, as a matter of policy and a perfect expression of everything he stands for. Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?”
- “Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current.”
- "It was not until his campaign collapsed and his ex-staffers felt free to talk that I learned that working for Big Ed [Muskie] was something like being locked in a rolling boxcar with a vicious 200-pound water rat. Some of his top staff people considered him dangerously unstable. He had several identities, they said, and there was no way to be sure on any given day if they would have to deal with Abe Lincoln, Hamlet, Captain Queeg, or Bobo the Simpleminded..."
- “People who claim to know jackrabbits will tell you they are primarily motivated by Fear, Stupidity, and Craziness. But I have spent enough time in jack rabbit country to know that most of them lead pretty dull lives; they are bored with their daily routines: eat, fuck, sleep, hop around a bush now and then....No wonder some of them drift over the line into cheap thrills once in a while; there has to be a powerful adrenalin rush in crouching by the side of a road, waiting for the next set of headlights to come along, then streaking out of the bushes with split-second timing and making it across to the other side just inches in front of the speeding front wheels”
- “The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.”
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Bernie Sanders' 1963 arrest
By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.
Bernie Sanders was charged with resisting arrest at an August '63 civil rights protest. He was found guilty and fined $25.
Bernie Sanders was charged with resisting arrest at an August '63 civil rights protest. He was found guilty and fined $25.
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Thursday, February 18, 2016
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
JebBush.com redirects to Donald Trump's official website
By Mona Goldwater, Errors & Omissions Ed.
At some point along the road to the White House, Jeb Bush's team forgot to renew the domain jebbush.com. While their official site is JebBush2016.com, clicking on jebbush.com now takes you to Donald Trump's page. . .which Trump recently and gleefully announced. This typifies the sad arc and ending of a bumbling campaign.
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George F. Will wrote in August "Republican field is the most impressive since 1980"
By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.
George F. Will wrote last August that, “This year’s Republican field is the most impressive since 1980, and perhaps the most talent-rich since the party first had a presidential nominee, in 1856."
George F. Will wrote last August that, “This year’s Republican field is the most impressive since 1980, and perhaps the most talent-rich since the party first had a presidential nominee, in 1856."
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Creepy doll images
By Jack Brummet, Ed.
Thanks to Getty Images for the use of their copyright images here.
A ginormous piece of driftwood in La Push, Washington
Six foot Amanda Lachman in front of the driftlog
"The wind was howling and there were rain squalls at times," said Phillip Lachman, a retired school teacher who photographed the drift log on April 5, 2010. "On the beach at La Push there was a huge amount of driftwood of all sizes and there in the middle of the beach was this tree. We were mesmerized by the sheer size of it and wondered at the force of the wind that brought it here."
This was probably the result of a tree on a crumbling hillside being swept off during gale force winds, along with very high tides last spring. They don't know what brand of tree it is (probably Western Red Cedar, Sitka Spruce, or Douglas Fir). I don't know if it's still on the beach or not...
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