Noel

So when I arise in the wee hours of the morning and I’m in the kitchen brewing us coffee, and I call out to my wife, “Ana! Are you WOKE!” Can I not use the word like that? I know that it’s not the King’s English but growing up in the South Bronx, fresh off the Eastern Airlines jet to Kennedy Airport, It’s how we used it. But with a thick Spanish…[Read more]

“Then I started thinking how some poor kid from the hood had so much against him… just to get here at all, well then maybe the world would be a better place if we let the pendulum swing too far for a good while. My woke moment. For centuries non-whites and queers were screwed. Now there is an expanded war against all LGBTQ folks. Drag shows b…[Read more]

Davis wrote:

“Woke” has become such a snarl word by those resistant to social progress that it has lost all value (which was perhaps part of the point). I mean, literally anything that reactionaries don’t like can be labeled woke:

• New tax funded shelter for the homeless: wokeness
• Considering abortion for incest rape victims and allow…

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Learned about spirituality at an AA meeting.

At the time I was on the fence between deist, atheist, agnostic, etc. So it made sense to “turn my will and my life over to a higher power” to help a brother out with his many addictions. Even let a buddy of mine convince me to take me to a monastery for a weekend where they were practicing and…[Read more]

Can somebody please give me a straight up definition for the NEW word Woke? For the life of me I use to think I knew what the word meant but these days I’m not so sure. It’s like the train pulled away and left me behind.

Feelings: If I, hypothetically speaking because I’m as heterosexual as the day is long, am walking around with a penis but I…[Read more]

https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/02/10/hersh-nord-stream-sabotage/

Also: “… the entire story hinges on a single “source with direct knowledge of the operational planning.” Supposedly, this source was aware of a top secret task force convened by President Joe Biden to destroy the pipeline. This source is also a legal expert, claiming a Biden…[Read more]

“That would be kewl—new gods. Let the gods of the bible go the way of Zeus and Osiris”

Neil Gaiman – American Gods

Book about all the old forgotten gods bitching about, well, being forgotten. Had another plot to it other than that but gods… bitching… crybaby’s. Loved the book didn’t care for the screenplay. Not the way I imagined it.

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Noel, I didn’t know that Jack Kirby called them that. I always thought of Marvel characters as for the most part Humanistically-oriented, with characters and powers that are explainable and at least distantly within the bounds of possibility and probability. Thor, the Asgardians, and Hercules were the only Supernatural b…

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LOL

someone caught the reactions of some of the other journalist when that “genius “ asked the Biden Woke question. It was priceless. A true WTF Jim, really?

Yeah Robert. Early Kirby. Actually read that one. Never owned it because even as a kid in 1968 it was worth more than I made shining shoes. This is how I remember him:

Old Testament god was/is an asshole. The New God-Egad! The late Jack Kirby coined a DC comic with that title – The New Gods. I liked Kirby’s concept of New Gods so much more. Miss Jack Kirby.

What he said. (Robert)

In 2020, every time Fauci, Trump, and their whole cast of characters came on the set to warn us, guide us, and in Trumps case make it look like it was the flu and all we needed to do was drink bleach to eradicate it, I wanted to put my foot through the TV.

He had those folks from the CDC saddled and broken. They couldn’t…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

No one enjoys properly wearing an N95 mask. It blocks the spit and nose goo particles that contain the virus, even though virus particles are small enough to get through. It’s a matter of degree. Masks and vaccines are not digital. Not 0 or 100%. There is a statistical curve and why is this so fucking difficult to u…

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Hey Belle:  Somewhere where they speak Spanish and/ or English I guess. A little late for me to learn a new language. Somewhere temperate. Everywhere I’ll go they probably will have their own political crap to deal with so no escaping the racism, nationalism, and hate.
I might be better off staying put as at least I know what to expect here. I li…[Read more]

At the doctors a while back. Overhead the receptionist speaking with an EMT about why they had to ask patients if they were born a woman. Seems that a woman came in complaining about abdominal pain. Doctors tried every exam they knew off. Passed it off as irritable bowel syndrome. Finally a nurse asked the question, “we’re you born a woman?”  Pati…[Read more]