Claim all human life is sacred. Vote to strip millions of human lives of their health care. Makes perfect fucking sense.

On a serious note, this actually happened. The Trump campaign removed harsh language regarding Russia/Ukraine from the Republican platform. He then implied the US would not defend its NATO commitments in Eastern Europe. Granted this happened in July and I’m not sure when this report was written. The best I could find…

Okay, I finally watched the speech and....it wasn’t that bad? *ducks*

Anyone else immediately picture the Kardashian robbery ringleader as looking like this?

A veteran criminal gang with 3 women and a 72 year old master counterfeiter? Can we get a show about them? They sound infinitely more interesting than the Kardashians.

That took my breath away. Holy. Fucking. Shit.

Nooo, this cannot be real!

We’ve had shitty governments before. Enough of the doom and gloom, start thinking about what you want and how to help achieve it. Start now, because elections are in less than two years.

Honestly, her old lizard bones are the only bit of continuity left in the world.

Twenty two minutes after she was asked to cover for her ailing friend, Luciano Pavarotti, Aretha Franklin takes the stage to perform the legendary aria “Nessun Dorma”, a piece she sang previously a few days earlier (in her own register, I might add), without changing Pavarotti’s key - which is no minor achievement.

Bullshit. If you don’t soundcheck, you are absolutely of some responsibility if the performance has sound issues. A sound engineer needs that soundcheck to get things right. If the artist refuses to soundcheck, it’s not the engineer’s fault if it sounds like shit. The engineer is going to be spending the bulk of the…

Young Millennials. Everything must be flawless, and they cannot tolerate unpredictability. And then they preach about “self awareness.”

There is something to be said about giving a fuck, even under adverse conditions.

You totally are one of those people who go to a concert and watch the show through your cell phone as you record, aren’t you?

Okay, I’ll bite. I think live music is thrilling. A terrific singer can change up phrasing and intonation, decide to come in ahead of or behind the beat, respond to what’s in her heart or what’s going on in the world. She can keep the material fresh. There is a reason fans of acts like the Grateful Dead or Bruce…

In the 1700s and part of the 1800s in Europe, nearly all wars were ended by some form of compromise. There was a type of small-c conservatism was very pragmatic in nature, that was prevalent among the leadership of much of the continent. The balance of power in Europe was delicate as all hell, and most people saw…

Humanity also occurred during WWII.

Indeed, war started to become a vengeful and highly impersonal activity...

Those facts really happened. My Grandfather Alfredo was 18 y.o. in 1917 and was guarding the Italian trenches in one cold, damp and foggy winter night. Too bad that he had a 39° fever and was quite disconnected, so that when he ended his shift and he had to return to his platoon, he mistook his path and ended in the…

Loved the twinkling barbed wire illustration!