Doge and Pony Show

 
Despite my temptation to share a bunch of inbreeding jokes ("If she warn't good enough fer her family, she ain't good enough fer ours!"), we now have proof positive that when wacky billionaires are paired, the disturbing offspring is likely to end up in a carnival sideshow.

And so it is with President Trump and Elon Musk. Once best buddies forever, Musk is now calling Trump a pedophile who should be impeached, and Trump is threatening Musk with financial armageddon if he dares donate to democrats. Democrats who are as tickled about this meltdown as a chromosome-challenged kid strumming banjo on a porch swing...

Dueling Bimbos

Sadly, this may be the end of our last best chance to save the country from financial collapse. The brutal and immediate austerity needed to make things right is likely never going to happen in a system that endlessly borrows money in order to buy self-perpetuating votes. Our political system can no more cut budgets than elephants can fly - it's just not designed for the job.

In the meanwhile, both Trump and Musk are wasting important political energy by attacking each other and the Left is loving it. But of course, they've always been thrilled by kinky relationships.

FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON

Here's a cartoon I did recently. My mind is an odd place to live in.

Vine Marches On

Yes, that's really my late Mom and my (better looking) twin brother.

Mother's Day has come and gone, and many of you are probably still reeling from the dirty looks Mom gave you after receiving only a Hallmark card and a drugstore gift. This was the woman who carried you for nine months! This was the woman who was willing to have sex with your father in hopes of someday having a thoughtful child. But she got you.

So if you failed to score points with Mom this year, I'm here to help you with a variety of memorable (trust me on this) gift items you can start looking at for next year!

As I've mentioned here previously, I'm a member of Amazon Vine. That's a program in which you can choose items to receive free in return for posting an honest review of the product. Sweet, right? Of course, not all the Vine offerings are winners. So here, once again, I'm presenting the latest crop of items that caught my eye (or caught in my throat)...

The Darkness Before the Dumb

It comes as a welcome relief to Americans that we're no longer the only nation blowing through unfathomable amounts of money to learn, once and for all, just how deep FAFO goes.

Oh, Fauci and company had us in the top spot for quite awhile, investing our tax dollars to create new ways to kill millions of human beings then doubling down by giving mRNA poisoning to Covid survivors. It is truly a situation in which "Oops, sorry" just seems an insufficient degree of penance.

But today is a new day...and soon to be a dimmer day. Because researchers in the UK have just committed to spending $66 million in hopes of fighting climate change by dimming the sun. Because there's certainly nothing that could go wrong with that plan, right?

Happily, the sun itself is in no danger as all the dimming will be taking place right here in the Earth's atmosphere, which will be made "more reflective" to bounce sunlight back into space. This process will require scientists to flood the atmosphere with chemicals which will almost certainly be 100% safe for us to breathe. Seriously, how much damage can a lungful of tiny shiny shards do?

The benefits of dimness (which is a book title waiting to happen) will be profound. For one thing, it will stop climate change in its tracks, assuming that researchers' wild guesses and spurious studies are right about what causes climate change. Which, to date, they haven't been.

Still, there will be effects we can confidently predict. Reducing the amount of solar energy entering our atmosphere will effectively put every plant that uses photosynthesis on a crash diet. So there will be less food grown, less carbon dioxide uptake, and less oxygen production. Solar panels will produce less electricity. Weather patterns will be affected, as well as our planet's myriad (and delicately balanced) ecosystems,

Sufficient dimness will additionally impact animal behavior, including human animals who tend to develop depression when deprived of enough light. 

Or when contemplating more a**holes in lab coats performing potentially catastrophic experiments.