Violence, Nihilism, and a Grown Man's Jubilance At Getting Another To Shit His Pants

Mickey Mantle was born on this day in 1931 in Commerce, Oklahoma along Route 66. He was named after another Hall of Fame baseball player, Mickey Cochran of the Philadelphia A's. 

Branch Rickey- "Fill in any figure you want for that boy. Whatever the figure, it's a deal."

Carl Yastrzemski- "If that guy were healthy, he'd hit eighty home runs."

Gerald Astor- "He hit the ball longer. Hit hit it more often, and he hit it from either side of the plate with equal violence."

Violence!

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Imagine that it's 1876, and the Lakota are getting ready for their big battle against Custer, but just beforehand they need to pick a new leader. On the one hand, they have Crazy Horse, who many prefer. On the other hand, there's Tangerine Weasel, an unhealthy blowhard bragging about how smart, rich and brave he is. He says that if "Loony Mule" wins, the election was rigged, and that we can't live our lives in fear of the settlers' smallpox blankets. He lies all day every day, admits to lying in order to get his way, is always enraged, never made a calm decision in his life. Somehow the vote is currently 50/50, and it all comes down to you. Are you going to sit this one out with the battle of our lives ahead of us?

October 20, 2020

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Wanda Jackson was born on this day in 1937.

https://fb.watch/ggW6BFwXOi/

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Fun in the park with these two goodies.

October 20, 2018

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McCain said the Republicans could block Clinton's nominee for the Supreme Court, seems like that's been lost in all if this other nonsense. So if the Democrats follow their precedent the justices will die off over the years and we'll be left with only two branches of government. (Or the first party with a supermajority would appoint them all.)

October 20, 2016

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This would be an ideal time for that Google Street View picture car to go around. All the political yard signs would be captured, so a good tool for each of us to use when decided where we want to move.

October 20, 2016

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As it turns out, Emma has some strong feelings concerning Gumby's nationality.

October 20, 2015

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Before, and after Zuzu wore out her welcome.

October 20, 2015

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My baby just pulled my glasses off my face (awwwww, cute), and then she started waving them around (hey, better be careful now), and then she began repeatedly bashing me in the head with them (knock it off you demented maniac, that hurts!)

October 20, 2014

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They just gave me a sample shot of gin at the liquor store. Now if I run out of gas I can just breathe in the gas tank.

October 20, 2012

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On this day in 1951, he "Johnny Bright incident" occured during a football game between the Drake Bulldogs and Oklahoma A&M Aggies. It was racially-motivated attack on an African-American player which led to a Pulitzer prize winning photo sequence.

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French soldier and poet, Arthur Rimbaud, was born on this day in 1854. From A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat:

"I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still."

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Psychologist and John Dewey was born on this day in 1859.

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

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Bela Lugosi was born on this day in 1882, who played roles as varied as Jesus and Dracula... which on second thought might be not as varied as I first thought. 

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Snoop Dogg was born on this day in 1971. What other names did he consider before he settled on Snoop Dogg?

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Herbert Hoover left us on this one this day in 1964, less than a year after kennedy.

"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die."

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Burt Lancaster left us on this day in 1994. The Swimmer is one of my favorites, a totally bizarre movie, perfectly emblematic of the time.

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Muammar Gaddafi was killed on this day in 2011. Christopher Hitchens used him as an example of why Johnnie Walker Black is peerless among other whiskeys. Gaddafi had his choice and money Was No object, and he chose Johnnie Walker Black. Ditto Saddam Hussein.

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James Randi left this on This Day in 2020, destined to never come back in any form.

"There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out."

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Buzzfeed- George Carlin Busted My 14-Year-Old Balls Via Snail Mail

http://www.buzzfeed.com/abrams/george-carlin-busted-my-14-year-old-balls-via-snai

October 20, 2011

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A must watch- Preacher gives an interesting speech on gay rights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8JsRx2lois

October 20, 2012

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Cracked- 7 Horrifying Uses of the Human Body to Create Art

I like blood ice head sculpture. Maybe "like" isnt the right word.

http://www.cracked.com/article_20116_7-horrifying-uses-human-body-to-create-art.html

October 20, 2012

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I love this type of thing, comparing pictures from long ago to how things look now.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219584/Ghosts-war-Artist-superimposes-World-War-II-photographs-modern-pictures-street-scenes.html

October 20, 2012

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Here's another, pictures taken in Kurt Cobain's abandoned house, juxtaposed with pictures taken at the same spot in his heyday with Courtney and their baby.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1216280282267528?s=yWDuG2&fs=e

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Nixon's condolence call to Joe Biden. This is a strange thing to exist.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/richard-nixons-1972-condolence-call-to-joe-biden

October 20, 2012

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Other notable birthdays- Grandpa Jones (1913), Jean-Pierre Melville (1917), Tom Petty (1050), Kamala Harris (1964)

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Rolling Stone- Taibbi: Why Aren’t We Talking More About Trump’s Nihilism?

Excerpt:

Obese and rotting, close enough to the physical end himself (and long ago spiritually dead), Trump essentially told his frustrated, pessimistic crowds that America was doomed anyway, so we might as well stop worrying and floor it to the end.

If that meant a trade war, environmental catastrophe, broken alliances, so be it. “Let’s just get this shit over with,” is how Trump’s unofficial campaign slogan was described in the show Horace and Pete, one of the few outlets to pick up on Trump’s Freudian death-wish rhetoric.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-white-house-climate-change-731440/

October 20, 2018

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Hedy Lamarr, for no reason.

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Darvo, I never heard of this before... sounds eerily familiar. From Wikipedia:

DARVO is an acronym used to describe a common strategy of abusers. The abuser will Deny the abuse ever took place, then Attack the victim for attempting to hold the abuser accountable; then they will lie and claim that they, the abuser, are the real victim in the situation, thus Reversing the Victim and Offender. This usually involves victim blaming. Some therapists see DARVO as a specific form of gaslighting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

October 20, 2020

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Can we just get these next two weeks over with please? I'm shivering with antici---

https://youtu.be/wlwnbcxBuzI

October 20, 2020

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Robert Lowell- "The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason."

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Noam Chomsky- “It is the responsibility of intellectuals too speak the truth and expose lies.”

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Confucius- "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

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Lucretius- "There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less."

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Friedrich Nietzsche- "But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

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Oscar Wilde- "Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

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Norm Macdonald- "What are odds that a terrorist will attack and kill you? Almost zero. But what are the odds that you will be attacked and killed by your own heart? About 100 percent.”

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