Monday, April 14, 2025

SEE YOU IN COURT

 

IT TAKES A WOMAN

 

Could we be looking at the next Democratic Presidential candidate?




Main Governor Janet Mills is the only person to stand up to Trump face-to-face.      Democratic Senators and congresspeople will talk about Trump but will not defy him to his face.   It takes a Maine woman.

 

Maine political women have a history of standing up to corruption.  This is a legacy from Margaret Chase Smith, who stood up against McCarthyism in the 1950s

 

 the Ol'Buzzard









Saturday, April 12, 2025

FAHRENHEIT 451

 







Fiction books have been written about a dystopian America led by a charismatic sociopath and a cabal of oligarchs that serve as his minions.





Fiction often precedes reality.    Fahrenheit 451, 1984 – it couldn’t happen here!  

 But it is happening.



 

The asylum has been taken over by the inmates; Congress has relinquished its role as a check-and-balance on the executive; the legal system has become corrupted from the top; and law firms are capitulating to executive pressure. 

 




You don’t have to burn books when you can defund libraries.  You don’t have to tell the truth when your oligarchs own the news media.   You don’t have to abide by the rule of law when the top judicial court of the land is your proxy.

 




Laws, rules, and norms no longer matter when they constrain Dear Leader.





We are entering a new dystopian America, and we are advancing with our eyes wide open. 



 

It happened in Germany in 1938, and in Turkey and Hungary in the last three decades.  We are in the midst of an American coup led by a conman supported by half the population. 





 

Trump will disenfranchise or outright prevent the mid-term elections.  Supported by his MAGA minions and a Republican Party wishing to retain power, Trump will not leave office at the end of his term.





A Fascist dictatorship brought to you by American oligarchy, individuals seeking power, the religious right, the uneducated, and the ignorant.






The damage is already too extensive.  We can’t go back and make it right.

 

Welcome to the new America.



the Ol'Buzzard










Monday, April 7, 2025

IT TAKES A WOMAN TO NEUTER TRUMP

 


With dozens of men in the room cringing at Trump's gaze, it took a woman, the governor of Maine, to stand toe-to-toe with the egomaniacal President and answer him with defiance. 





Afterwards, certain news outlets said that Governor Mills had more balls than the men in the room.






That was wrong.  She had more vagina than anyone else in the room.

 

The image of big balls being tough is just a fantasy.    A well-placed slap on a man’s genital area will have him on the ground in agony.   








A woman, however, can push a twenty-inch, ten-pound bag of bones, blood and flesh through her vagina one day and be up the next day feeding her family and getting her kids off to school. 








That’s fucking tough



 So, our governor, Janet Mills, had the biggest vagina in the room when she told Trump, “We’ll see you in court.”  






Maine has always been known as the state of hardy men and strong women.


the Ol'Buzzard






Friday, March 21, 2025

THE CANADIAN PROVENCE OF MAINE

 




Dear Canada

Please buy Maine.  Make an offer to Trump that he can’t refuse.  Remind him Maine did not vote for him in the last election.  Offer to trade him England; he won't know the difference.  Say you will recognize him as King of America – appeal to his vanity. 




 

Maine has great natural resources and a thriving tourist economy, so it would make sense for Maine to become one of your maritime provinces.



  Mainers are so much like Canadians that there would be little adjustment – though we might balk at God Save the King. 

 

the Ol’Buzzard

 

 


Thursday, March 20, 2025

WALK-IN BATHTUBS

 


 

As you age, one of the things you worry about is falling. Getting in and out of a tub is doable but becomes more complicated with age. 


I have seen the ads for walk-in tubs; a woman lying back in a spa-like setting in a sitting tub with a door. 



And an advantage is you can't tell the farts from the bubbles!


This seemed the perfect answer to replace our bathtub. 

 

Fortunately, we live in an information age. 

    

I have never seen one of these tubs, and I don’t doubt they give you a safe and comfortable bathing experience, but there are downsides. 


The tub volume is forty to sixty gallons, and you must enter and sit there while the tub fills, which could take five minutes or more.  When your bath is finished you must sit there while the water completely drains.  The sidewalls are high, so in an emergency, you are pretty much stuck in the tub until it drains.


These tubs are expensive and the cost of the tub doesn't include the cost of installation, which could double the price of the tub.


We have a walk-in shower, so the tub to me is just a luxury, a place to sit and soak with a book and a cup of tea. 


The walk-in tub looks good, but I think I will pass.








the Ol’Buzzard

 

 





Tuesday, March 18, 2025

QUESTIONS I CAN’T ANSWER.

 

 

Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?

 

Why is a nickel larger than a dime?

 

Why are ghosts wearing clothes?

 

If Pluto is a dog, what the fuck is goofy?





 

Astrophysicists are constantly concerned with the possibility of a giant asteroid, similar to the one that caused the dinosaur extinction hitting the Earth.   But what happens to Earth if a large asteroid misses us but strikes the Moon?   Would it knock the moon out of its present orbit?  What happens to Earth if the Moon changes its orbit even slightly?

Everything is in equilibrium.  We can place satellites in space where the gravities of space objects cancel each other.  If the moon’s orbit changes will satellites fall out of the sky?

 

Why do vampire hunters always enter the vampire’s crypt minutes before sundown?







Why do working people vote for Republicans?


the Ol'Buzzard

 

 

 

 


Sunday, March 9, 2025

 




I consider myself a liberal person and to some extent a Buddhist, but most of all a free-thinking individual.   I refuse to identify myself with any group think. 

 

Our Maine Governor and Donald Trump are in a standoff about transgender girls competing in girls’ sports.       I must admit I have some conflicting feelings on this subject. 




However, I try to isolate myself from feelings and view subjects with a logical mind. 

 

How a person wishes to dress is none of my business.

The gender a person wishes to identify as is none of my business.

Who a person wishes to have sex with is none of my business.

Preferred sex acts of other people are none of my business.

 

Transgender athletics is none of my business, and I will not enter into the fray: I don’t have a dog in that hunt, but I would be uncomfortable strictly from a fairness position.

 

Boys have a different pelvic structure than girls, and boys have a distinct muscular build and a different hormonal makeup than girls.

 

A transgender woman or girl has every right to dress the way she is comfortable, and every right to associate herself with the gender she is most comfortable.  She has every right to surgery to make herself more comfortable in the role she chooses.

 

But, if she does not have, or has not had, ovaries and an egg that drops every month causing the hormonal rollercoaster of a period, and the internal organs designed for pregnancy and carrying a fetus to term, then strictly speaking she is not female.

 

Males competing against females in a physical sport would likely have an unfair advantage. 

 

But again, I don’t have a dog in this hunt. and I do support our governor standing up to Trump.





Maine's governor, a woman, has been the only person who has shown the toughness to answer Trump back to his face.  

 The Ol’Buzzard