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  Big Breaking News ... there are 73 shopping days until Xmas 2026. Yep and it won't be long now. 73 days will be over in a blink. Get on out there and check your credit card limit. Of course you may want to see if your credit card provider is willing to increase your credit limit. What the hell ... America is running on a $40 + trillion dollar deficit so what would it matter should you demand a $10,000.00 dollar increase to your credit limit ... I mean really. So there you have it the really big breaking news for this first day of October 2026. Midterm elections are just one month away. Gosh, Halloween and then midterm elections and then Thanksgiving food-oh-rama and then ... wait for it ... and then ... Xmas 2026. Believe me it will come and go real quick like. Now for Thursday machine art. wish - hole - shops - tours - why - trumpf is going to build him a steel mill ... in Iowa ... go figure ... 😐

  The ridiculously hyped 2026 El Niño will, according to climate scientists, have "Godzilla Strength!" That's right kids, not only will the upcoming 'El Niño' be really really REALLY bad, the upcoming El Niño will be like Godzilla putting the bitch slap on Tokyo. Dang I think that is really gonna hurt. Tokyo. However. the predicted 'super El Niño' hasn't quite yet done more than about be a no show. The climate guys have been on about the El Niño thing for months now and their reporting changes ever so slightly if not hyper-incentivized to provide just the right amount of hysteria to a rather mundane weather report. El Niño so far has been much ado about not a gad danged thang. That's western desert slang for the spooky stormy shit isn't. Isn't here, shows no sign of being anywhere close to here, and so what the fuck are we supposed to do about any of their reporting now ... build an ark big enough for everyone? I am NOT a climate denier. I ...

The wife and I bought a new desktop iMac about four months ago and the new computer was "allegedly" equipped with the newest and most to date software and ancillary crap. Today we received, again, from Apple a brand new OS and the install took better than an hour and 45 minutes. The current incarnation of Apple is NOT the same Apple as when Steve Jobs was calling the shots. Now for Tuesday machine art. I did indicate today's installment was to be brief. hip - hip one more time - heebie - facade - tater - back in the olden days, apple was an entirely more responsive maker of fine computing machinery ... that was of course then and ... this is now ... 😐

  The countdown is on. The countdown to November elections 2026. With all the political bullshit flying fast and furious you could come to a conclusion that 2026 was a presidential election. The upcoming election is a "midterm" election. 'Midterm elections happen halfway through a presidential term in office. The bottomline here would be one third of sitting senators must stand for a midterm election. Every elected member of the House of Representatives must stand for election and that's to include the Squeaker of the House one Mikey milquetoast Johnson. Loads of local politicians will stand for election such as mayors and city council members and county council members BUT ... there will still be a major fortune spent on candidates that range from almost electable to politicians that should by all reasonable assumptions made, be shipped off to a penitentiary somewhere that takes in wayward and convicted felony politicians mostly like trumpf. I'm firmly of the opi...

The modern rush to categorize public tragedies as isolated incidents relies heavily on an engineered collective amnesia. When a Black body is found hanging in a public space today, the immediate bureaucratic reflex is often to offer a swift conclusion that closes the book before the pages can even be read. It is a modern manifestation of the "don't ask, don't tell" approach to racial trauma ... an effort to treat history as a closed chapter rather than an ongoing current.  True accountability in these spaces does not come from executive offices or official press releases, it is dug out of the ground by those willing to fund the independent forensic work that local institutions refuse to prioritize. It is an exhausting, unglamorous resistance to the large gorilla in the societal room.  For those of us who have spent decades pushing against these exact social winds, this architecture of institutional silence is intimately familiar. It carries a heavy, unmistakable e...

  The notion of "equal justice under law" is simply that and nothing more. A notion. With the current incarnation of the Supreme Court of the United States of America routinely granting trumpf a green light to ride roughshod over all Americans civil and constitutional rights, 'we the people' are shit the fuck out of luck. There is no luck nor justice equal or otherwise to be had from the Supremes. On Friday September 26, 2026, the Supremes gave trumpf the green light to "screen voter rolls for possible ineligible people being allowed to vote." Under a Department of Homeland Security program titled 'the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements' database whose original purpose was to check if noncitizens qualified for government benefits so the spy widget is to trawl through state voter rolls and link those rolls to information supposedly confirming citizenship. A rather Kafka-esque bureaucratic twisting of alleged "law", the entire pre...