5,300 fired for doing what they were told says MA Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D)

“When it all blew up, you kept your job, you kept your multi-million-dollar bonuses and you went on television to blame thousands of $12 an hour employees who were just trying to meet cross-sell quotas that made you rich,” Warren asserted. “You should resign, you should give back the money that you took while this scam was going on and you should be criminally investigated by both the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.”

“The only way that Wall Street will change is if executives face jail time when they preside over massive frauds,” she said. “We need tough new laws to hold corporate executives personally accountable, and we need tough prosecutors who have the courage to go after people at the top.”

Back to my one-man war against rap...

"My," "yo," "you," "I," "shit," "get," "they," "pay," "money," (stop me if I start using words that you haven't heard in literally EVERY rap ever made...) and my favorite, "UHHHHH!!!" Because a pop song ain't a pop song without the obligatory, "UHHHHH!!!" some talentless rapper gets paid to add to it.

"UHHHHH!!! See? You can't do dat shit!"

Seriously. They PAY talentless people (lots of money!) to yell, "UHHHHH!!!" into a microphone right in the middle of some pop songstress's latest love song. Perhaps even worse is the fact that having some rapper's guttural voice inlaid into the song is so out of place, so alien to the nature of the song that it takes you out of the song utterly. But it seems no pop song today is complete without the obligatory rap verse or two. Yes, I said, "obligatory," twice. Ya know why? Because, it bears repeating! 

"Narcos" and "Pablo Escobar: el patron del mal" share more than just a main character.

Okay, I have looked and looked, all over the Interwebz, and although I knew it was the same dude, I couldn't find his name or anything. You heard it here first, folks, Juan Sebastian Calero, aka Navegante, aka Gonzalo Escobar, respectively, had roles in both Narcos and Pablo Escobar: el patron del mal. I've seen him in some other stuff, although I couldn't tell you what it was if my life depended on it. But I knew I recognized him, and stuff like that bugs the boogers out of me when I can't figure it out.

Learn to write and spell or you're saying nothing, says judge

"Having tremendous success is literally the opposite of sacrifice." ~ Seth Myers commenting on Donald Trump's inability to answer George Stephanopoulos' question, "What have you sacrificed for this country," in an ABC This Week interview in which Trump responded with a string of boasts about his successes and whatnot, decidedly unable or unwilling to share with the world what is either, A. his complete lack of sacrifices for this country, or B. his complete lack of understanding of the question posed to him. I mean, it's obvious to anyone with even a modicum of intelligence that no one who talks rhetorical nonsense as well as Trump has ever sacrificed anything at all for his country, but I am still going with B. because it was just as obvious that he did not understand what he was being asked.

"You'll be writing books about my campaign . . . Don't believe me? Just look at my hair. You're stupid, George, really. Look at it. It's real. It's awesome. That means I'm real! I'm awesome. Come on, George, don't you watch FoxNews?"

Government does not exist to enforce your morals, say local cops

It is the government's flipping job to regulate, not to make profit. By regulating the markets, penalizing corporations for moving jobs overseas and for paying below-the-poverty-line wages, and putting caps on insurance and pharmaceutical rates, the government is doing its JOB. The government exists - presumptively at least - to protect and serve its citizenry. Commerce is not a governmental role. Why can't people see this? It isn't "wanting more government" simply because you want the government to function as it was intended.

Man is incredibly greedy and power-hungry. Both capitalism and communism feed into these two basest of motivators. Regulating businesses by keeping them from screwing over their consumers is just smart government. It's neither capitalism, communism, nor socialism - it's purely pragmatic.  

Punishment is not discipline, say local authorities

If you ever find yourself wanting to "get even with" or "punish" your animal for something they did wrong, take care it's not something you actually did wrong. You discipline animals, like you discipline children. Punishment is a form of vengeance, and I would hope none of you feel the need to "get even" with your kids or pets.

On the other hand, if you like abusing animals, seeing them get hurt, running them over with your vehicle, or snatching them off the streets, riding around with them in your car while you beat them with your fists, then throwing them out of the window at 35 mph (I know people who have actually done this, saw it with my own eyes), you are particularly cruel individuals, unworthy of pet ownership, unworthy of the finer things in life, and unworthy of the pulpit, surely (you know whoyou are).

And I would strongly advise that you stay away from any animals, and perhaps children as well......and never let me find out about it. I am not as tolerant as I used to be, nor do I care one whit about seeking the approval of my peers (I use the word, "peer," very loosely), and far less fearful about confrontation than I once was.

Also, if that's your thing, seek therapy. You terribly need it. That's some serial killer shit right there. Also, you deserve to be in jail. Again, you know who you are, assholes.

Black Lives Matter wads many a panties, sources say

What so many people fail to realize - but that ultra-con pundits want you to look through and ignorant rednecks fail to see - is that saying, "Black lives matter," isn't saying other lives do not matter. It doesn't imply that only black lives matter. To think otherwise, regardless of which side of the issue you're on, is deliberate - and blazingly dangerous - ignorance...on a level with the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem Witch Trials, Islamo-fascist terrorism, and other dangerously ignorant movements throughout history that were based on miscommunication, deliberate falsehoods, fanning the flames of bigotry and xenophobia, and yes, a thousand times, yes, ignorance.

Ignorance is infectious, and there's nothing more dangerous than some ignorant knucklehead who only listens to authorities, peers and information outlets which agree with his or her preconceived, and very likely borrowed, ideas. Why? Because his ignorance is deliberate.