Happy Independence Day!!!

People talk about the place they’d live…if they could live anywhere in the world.  My choice is right here!  Love this place, love the ideals…and when reality matches the ideal, it’s a point of pride.

Love this song, too.

9 Time Babymaking Loser Shoots for 11

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Ladies, when you see eyes that vacant staring back at you, RUN the fuck away!!!

Gary Staton is making news again for his mad parenting skillz.   The father of nine dumped his children (ages 1-17) off at a hospital in Omaha after his wife died in 2007.   Staton inspired Nebraska legislators to get off their collective ass and change their baby safe haven law.

Well, now the walking daddy fail is expecting twins with his new girlfriend.

WTF????

Seven of Staton’s first batch are being adopted by an aunt.

Maternal aunt, thank god!!

The other two are living with an elderly woman in Omaha and finishing high school.

When questioned about the lunacy of his reproducing,  Staton replied, “Do you think I’m going to raise this one alone?”

Friggin’ Finally Franken!!!!

The election that would not end has ceased to be.  MinnesOHHHta voters and the state supreme court have decided Franken is good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, people like him.

Somebody had to fuckin’ write it, okay.

Oh, except  loser Republican Norm Coleman who thinks Franken could actually make a bigger joke of Congress than it is, has been…and ever shall be?

So, Democrats sorta have their super majority.

Like it’ll make a difference.

GOP Not 4 Me sums it up best quoting Will Rogers, “I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat.”

Never the Twain Shall Meet

The 30 Minute Sketch by yours truly

Mark Twain is one of the historical figures I’d kneel at the feet of…

….if’n I had H.G. Wells’ Time Machine.

So, reckon I won’t.

For a dead guy, Twain taught me a LOT!  I wanted to BE Huckleberry Finn, but the boys across the street made me play Becky Thatcher.

The bitches.

At any rate, Huckleberry Finn was the story that first illuminated for me love and friendship transcending the color of one’s skin.

I remember in first grade hearing adults whispering about two black girls attending my school, St. Pius X in Toledo, Ohio.

And these people obviously had infinitely more to fear from the priests in the diocese than they did from little brown-skinned children.

I probably should have textured up Twain’s suit, but I gave myself the thirty minute deadline.  I actually held the pencil clenched in my fist like a kindergartner holding a big, fat crayon.  That seemed to speed up the process.

I loved drawing him.

Twain’s gnarly nose just fuckin’ rocks!  So, do his brows.  They look like Beta fish or caterpillars.

H.G. Wells is Better Than Me

The Young H.G. Wells as Hacked By Me

The young H.G. Wells was just too damn handsome for me to draw.  I painted the lily.  And besides being a turn of the 20th century hottie and brilliant, imaginative storyteller, he knew what he was talking about when not writing books:

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Tonight, I’m drawing Mark Twain. I know I’ll OWN his mug.

Governor’s Taint Gets All Over South Carolina

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I’m just saying, keeping your dick in your pants goes a hell of a lot farther in protecting the institution of marriage than denying it to gay people.

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s taint was stinking up the state capital as routine business on drunk driving and falling tax revenues went on.

Dozens of media whores crowded the corridors to get the governor and his taint on video as they conducted their first official meeting since announcing he’s a man slut.

This week, Sanford admitted to an extramarital with a chick in Argentina even though he’s been married to another chick for 20 years.

The taint had no comment.

Governor Sanford Gets Laid in South America

Breaking NEWS!!!!  Republican has affair with woman and is not homosexual and never has been homosexual!!!

Props to Governor Mark  Sanford (R-SC) for not marching his wife up to the podium to look horribly uncomfortable while he makes an ass-kissing apology for cheating.

If I were him, I’d march the Argentinian trollop up on the stage with me and say to the press, “It’s nothing you haven’t heard before.  This bitch puts out.  The bitch at home didn’t.  Round of applause, please, for the one that puts out.   Welcome to my midlife crisis.  Thank you very much.”

Sanford is resigning as head of the Republican Governors Association.  He’s not saying whether he’ll resign as governor though.

Check out the emails between Sanford and his lover.

Where in the World is Governor Mark Sanford: Game Version

Build your own Blingee

Have you been playing, too?

WYFF News 4 has received exclusive information from sources who say they have information about Gov. Mark Sanford’s whereabouts during a mysterious absence over the past several days.

Is this an Agatha Christie type fugue or just another weird ass Republican sex story waiting to break?

A song came to me which is sung to the tune of Peter Cottontail:

Here is Governor Sanford’s Tale
Hoppin’ down the Appalachie Trail
Hippety Hoppety
Where did Sanford go?

Wifey says, she ain’t frettin’.
GOP on odds are bettin’
another brother gets caught in teh gay…
Press just hopes the story’s sexed.
Sanford’s staff is six ways vexed
with an airport sighting 80 miles away.

Oh! That is Governor Sanford’s Tale
Hoppin’ down the Appalachie Trail
Hippety Hoppety
Where did Sanford go?

Poe Folks

Most of us are exposed to the work of Edgar Allen Poe in the American Education system.

Thank God!

It takes a special intensity to return to him after the school assignments are over.

As a kid, he was a good place for me to go when I wanted to feel dread.   In fact, my mother used to scare the hell out of me before bedtime with Poe.  But don’t misjudge her.  I begged her to.

Yes, I was a twisted, little girl.

Anyway, I sketched this the other night because I don’t get enough time to draw, and I actually have about an hour to kill before bedtime these days.

I’ve been frightened and dazzled by The Pit and the Pendulum, Annabelle Lee, The Tell Tale-Heart,  and The Raven.  Drawing Poe is a similiar experience.  He looks so sickly, and sure he has a reputation with drugs and booze.  His life and his work scream “haunted.”

And his face has no symmetry whatsoever.  The asymmetry on most faces is barely discernible.  You have to look for it.    Poe is gaunt and puffy, sagging and tight, alert and exhausted.

I wouldn’t want the inner conflicts and outer challenges that would wear my face in such a way.   It looks too hard.

GOP Comedy FAIL!!!!

How racists get their kicks.

Are these buggers ever gonna learn???

I started to write a bit on this “joke” circulated by a legislative aid to Sen. Diane Black of Tennessee, and my 11 year old brother and 10 year old nephew walked in and were APPALLED by the image.

I decided to extract some wisdom from the youngsters and ask them what they think about the picture:

It’s stupid!  Seriously!”

“What in the world are they thinking?”

“Barack Obama is a good President!”

“Why do they hate?”

“People are all equal, black, white, brown, and mixed!”

“How can you hate Obama?”

“Why do people still treat African-Americans as unequal?”

–Andy and Sintrez