So today I figured I'd share a bit of my Stand-up Material... Yeah, I do it, but not often, and usually only when I get a babysitter and open mic night to line up properly...

So, I present you, The ABC routine:

There's an old saying "It will be a great day when the schools get all the funding they need and the Army has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber."

You ever stop and think what that would actually look like?

yeah well lunachickie made me do it!
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My father told me, lying on his bed of death,
"Boy," he says, "woman she's gonna make it, don't fool your self
'Cause she's got something to make a man lay that money, uh, right in her hand
And the very thing that makes her rich will make you poor
The very thing that makes her rich will make you poor
That's right!

Hello, welcome to the Friday Open Thread. I'll throw some chum in the water to start the feeding frenzy. Plus, Jim Campilongo and The Little Willies!

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

~William Shakespeare~

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself. - Milos Forman

Food for thought and funkin' Galactic.

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
- attributed to Sinclair Lewis

You know what really cheeses me off? Besides calling stuff that isn't cheese, cheese?

I had airline miles that were either turning into magazines or evaporating, so I started getting Time. The publication is unbelievably turgid and then this ->

With the primaries in full swing now, the rhetoric has gotten very hot, some of which is good and much of which is bad, very bad. Barring any significant change, it is almost assured that the Republican nominee will be Donald Trump. The specter of a "proto-fascist" such as Trump being nominated by one of the two major political parties is frightening.