The Shape of Fire

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Unauthorized.  The bleak, blasted and blighted path seemingly leading from Wolff's Whitehouse witch hunt. But such pretty witches, forgive us if this sweet chariot swings so asymptotically near Melania's deep mascara and Loboutin's red souls (sic.) These weren't made in America, were they?

Its a Fast-and-furious shout-out shot out of a coal shute faster than white-nosed bats out of hell. Hell, Hollywood and Babylon were never like this. Those slicing tweet shots zooming out of super swanky "Murcialago" barely whiffing the temple forehead fonts of journalism's ivy towers are drowning in the pond. That thing in 'The Shape of Water' should be hurling them back. But they hurtle past us harmlessly while tripping up that one-legged hurtler, $Trump.

Indeed, he is like the proverbial one-legged man in an *ss-kicking contest. He should be feeling the heat of controversy in the eye of this year's Polar Vortex of Irony. We notice it should be sweeping over the Whitehouse - just now and not on Xmas. You see Virginia - er Donald - Climate Change must be real. Climate Change and Santa Claus morphing into a Krampus-shaped Satan Claus. Forgive us, that schadenfreude simile is barely resistable. And he is dropping fire-bomb cyclone shape charges all over this kakatrumpian hellscape.

Meanwhile, Steve-Miller-cum-Reinhard-Heydrich is having an extra-Factual nuclear meltdown on national syndicated Sunday political TV. Shades of Paddy Chayefsky. Its like Oliver Goldsmith, Shakespeare and Hunter S. Thompson all time-travelled here and rolled into one. This is classic-cubed stuff that just cannot be made up. Along with the "Tax Change" its like Burroughs wrote his sequel 'The Naked Sh*t Sandwich". Yea, it is that bad and smells worse. But, Thank God, no drugs are involved - we hope, we pray.

We're already in a New Cold War, we hope and we pray its just that. This filet-of-soul and counterfeit caviar stinkburger already smells to High Hades. And that's bad enough. We invested heavily in Taibbi's "Insane Clown President" only to wake up to this year's 'Fire and Fury' that Trumps all. Yes, its worse than we suspected and we reach for a Bismo and/or blue ribbon cognac. We've had enough of this toxic fire hose lava flume running past our noses smelling like fire and brimstone. And I'm Cotton Mather ringing a bell in front of Hades' Gates with a "Run! Flee!" placard in this frostbitten hell scape. Res  ipsa loquitur.

Scandal Land

Symbol of Discordia image licensed under Creative Commons by Derek Purdy

Our apologies as we take a brief attempt at poetry...

Scandal Land or A Tribute to the "Newest" Scandal in the Land

In Scandal Land did Nixon* and Atë,
Roll the lots writ of runes of
Flesh, bone and waters
In the sunlight of day
Tumbling like black otters.

And Bush and Cheney did spill
Water like blood for oil,
Money, fame or spoil
Letting loose Cerberus
From the Gates of Hell.

No Devil loosed upon the
Earth like even Crowley knew well
The leather-winged demon
From the deepest cell
And gnashed its pointed jaws.

But, in Scandal Land all
Point and dance and drone
At what is the law and are the laws
And what should be done
And what should've been.

And tumbles down the
Law of the Lands
At what lies unseen.
Comes down Discordia
To lay within Scandal's hips.

In Scandal Land,
And mouths her lips
In a large "O".
And intones, "O Scandal!"
"Oh so beautiful, oh so O!"


(For more on The Scandal see our previous post and others...)


*(Our apologies to Richard M. Nixon - who never waterboarded, well, at least we think he didn't...)

The Bailout Scandal

The Bailout Scandal

This one appears to be a scandal with virtually no precedent. You're probably bored to death with this one by now. Well, so are we. But we find it important to voice our opinion on this newest scandal.

The sometimes-pithy Joe Scarborough has railed on about how nobody saw this coming. Boy, is he wrong. The BBC news predicted at least one major US bank would fail just over a month ago. Somebody did see this one coming, but apparently Joe and members of Congress and other officials chose to just go along with business-as-usual attitudes. Boy, were they wrong about that.

Its no more business-as-usual and Chicken Little is running for cover. The sub prime sky isn't falling. It fell. Hard. And loud. And now everybody is trying to gain good faith as appearing to pick up the pieces - which makes this sorry and terrible spectacle all the more scandalous.

The banking giants are toppling like the Twin Towers did in 911. But, the terrorists aren't "out there". They are hiding within our boundaries. Sneering and gnashing their teeth, all the while consuming Dom Pérignon and Beluga Caviar off the tops of our financial heads. Too bad there's nothing we can do about that - legally, anyway. We're waiting for the real fallout. A real hard rain of a s***storm is just about here. The rope makers are in for a banner year, because a certain kind of neck wear is coming back in fashion.

No, we know its not pleasant and probably illegitimate to even mention this stuff. But, its just a prediction of harder times to come. Its likely to be a real hard winter this year. Jobs will be lost, more homes lost, more unemployment coming, the rising trade deficit and the bailout will likely be the causes and makers of more hard times for more of the masses. And we're wondering "Where's your bailout? Where's mine?" Our legislature and our leadership appear to be barely concerned for our needs. Oh, wait a minute, that's right - they're going to fix Wall Street. That's how they're going to help you and me. Yeah, right, and 5 bucks will get you a cappuccino at Starbuck's. We can't even afford a taste of Starbuck's - let alone a chili dog, or a car payment, or a mortgage payment, and so on and so forth.

So, where's the chance to vote on this bailout? What you say? There is no vote for you on the bailout? Did you notice how you have been cut out of the equation? Bush and his cronies seem perfectly willing to vote with your dollars, however. Here is our vote - Vote NO on the bailout by contacting your senator and/or congressman today. Do it now.