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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...

  The United States Congress, the House of Representatives and the Imperial Senate, are struggling with legislation that would increase the hourly wage for employees of our government. The hourly wage for entry level federal government workers is an approximately $15.00 an hour and of course that base rate is modified to fit job descriptions and the possibility of luring qualified candidates. Much of any debate about minimum salaries is mostly smoke and mirrors with little to near nothing to do with what are the actual facts concerning wages earned. Workers in low wage states which are broken down into about 20 states using a $7.25 minimum wage and refusing to increase that amount and the 30 states that start entry level employees generally at $15.00 an hour so ... the debate over minimum wage level and entry level wages is mostly smoke and mirrors with an inordinate amount of political hype and party jargon with much ado about nothing. Per the usual performance of bullshit...

  That would of course be trumpf. After trumpf's thoroughly wack job speech at the United Nations General Assembly, the world is looking at the United States rather cautiously and with well meaning suspicion. The crazy old freak basically put the world on notice that yes indeed ... orange adolf pedofuhrer donorrhea trumpf is woefully insane and needs to be "preempted." Sad situation no doubt. Should trumpf indeed have a massive cardiac attack, stroke, assassination, or just straight up and die ... well, junior vance the veep would be next in the line of succession and junior would become president #48. Junior vance hasn't the brains 'god' gave a fire amoeba. That's probably an insult to the fire amoebas of our world but none-the-less, the comparison is made. Junior vance isn't exactly playing with a full deck. An even worse scenario would be IF trumpf then vance gets cacked, Speaker of the House one Mikey 'spineless' Johnson would be next in li...