Recent Comments

1. about 2 months ago on Barney & Clyde

   Huh, I thought it was a reference to the extremely high heat there during the summer. You know, the place where many lawyers go is also pretty hot I hear. /s

2. 3 months ago on Basic Instructions

   I really liked Black Hole, mostly for the ending. Even when I was young, I liked ambiguity over everything all tied up nicely.

3. 3 months ago on Pluggers

   This one hits a little too close to home for me. I’ve been hearing cicadas 24/7 since my late 30s.

4. 5 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Oh, you’re from another country? Well that explains why you don’t know the definition of “disinterested” which would entail being free from motive or personal preference; a synonym being “unbiased”, which by your very response is not the case. You prefer a Biden win. So let me provide a word for what you are being, which also suffices as an adjective for what you’re accusing me of being. That being “disingenuous”.

   I really should have guessed you weren’t from here, as your profile picture references the Simpsons, a television show that stopped being entertaining or relevant in the USA 25 years ago and exists today solely as a zombified IP that Fox is milking as a cash cow until it mercifully expires of bleeding udders.

5. 5 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Your strategy to convince third party voters to vote for Trump is a bold one, Cotton. One would think you’d want to try to push us to vote for Biden, but let’s see how that works out for you.

6. 5 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   I write multiple screeds about how I dislike both candidates and their failures and you keep insisting I’m voting for Trump.

   I’m voting against both Trump and Biden, with the full knowledge that one or the other will win. It’s my right to do so, and your right to believe it’s foolish. But do not ascribe support of Trump through my actions. If Trump happens to be elected because there are enough people like me in the country opting out of the two choices given, then maybe you should have run a different candidate that would appeal to non-aligned voters and capture more of us. But y’all didn’t, so this is what you’re getting.

   Same goes for the people on the other side saying I’m actually voting for Biden.

7. 5 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   You can post whatever data points you have, I have my bills and my standard of living, which has respectively gone up and continuously dropped for the last 8 years. All you people keep saying to not trust my lying eyes about my own life, and then lay contempt when I say I’m not going to do that.

   I’m suffering and you just line up to say I’m deluded when I say I am, which really makes your appeals to empathy as hollow as a rotting log. Ideology and political cliques matter more to both the left and the right. You’ll stand by your man, right or wrong and dismiss and demean anyone who disagrees.

   A person can’t even protest vote without being insulted and belittled by both sides. Vitriol runs the game and in the end we all lose.

8. 5 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Trust me, I’ve watched enough news clips to know both the main parties candidates are superannuated geriatrics who even if their brains weren’t turning into pudding (not that either of them were geniuses at their prime), and both stand a chance of keeling over in the next few years.

   Both are awful, both have track records of leaving things worse than when they entered into office and blaming it all on the other side, taking zero responsibility for their failures or spinning the bull-hockey sandwich they sold the public as gold, both should never have been elected and both are defended by people who care more about their political team winning and demonizing and dehumanizing the other side as bloodthirsty racist fascists or godless degenerate communists respectively than the general commonweal of the nation for all citizens of all political persuasions.

   My candidate is not going to win, I know. But whoever wins of the big two, we still lose, and in your heart of hearts, you know it too.

9. 5 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Yes, and my chess move is that I’m voting against both major parties because I reject your doomsday hypothesis.

10. 5 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

    Thank you. While I’m more of a libertarian bent and will be voting for my candidate accordingly (they haven’t been selected yet from the primaries), I complete agree with the sentiment of voting your desires and not your fears.