Friday, October 30, 2015

Suffragette City

The funny thing is: If women didn’t have the right to vote today, I think we can all agree that one major political party would be in favor of giving them the vote, while another would be vehemently opposed.

(Do I even have to name them?)

BILL

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Gun Crazy

What mental illness causes NRA members to interpret “rational gun control laws” – you know, things like no Gatling Guns, waiting periods, background checks, etc. - as “WE’RE COMING FOR YOUR GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!?”

BILL

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

It was... I gotta tell ya... CRAZY!!

So I go to this Santa Monica Blvd playhouse the other night to see a show called “All About Walken,” one of those wacky low-rent productions wherein they’ve amassed a number of actors, all of whom do truly amazing impressions of actor Christopher Walken. To no one’s surprise they kind of do them in ascending quality order, you know, the “worst” first and work their way up. A couple sketches , one of a phone operator talking to someone with a bad connection was pretty amusing, each actor doing a solid Walken. All pretty standard stuff and quite entertaining.

Anyway, at show’s end, they all come out onstage and hold hands, bow, soak in the generous applause and that’s when it happened: the actual Christopher Walken walks out from behind them!! The place goes NUTS!! Judging by the shocked reaction of the actors, I don’t even think they had a clue this was going to happen. (Must have been arranged by the theatre on the down low; that’s all I can figure.) Anyway, it truly made for a madcap evening, right up until the moment Walken pulled out a revolver and shot himself like his character does at the end of “The Deer Hunter.”

What a bummer.

BILL

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

25 or 6.24?

Despite having only five percent of the world’s population, guess what percentage the United States has of the world’s prison population?

Answer: 25%.

Welllllllllllll, all I have to say to that is: USA!! USA!! USA!! USA!!

Monday, October 26, 2015

Thought They Were Shooting "Walking Dead" Downtown This Morning!

Turned out it was just a typical Monday morning on the sidewalks of Los Angeles.

Oh, well.

BILL

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Like the ads say: "Priceless"

With talk of Congressman Paul Ryan becoming Speaker of The House it’s amusing to recall the quote from musician Tom Morello: “Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades.”

As a bonus, it was just pointed out to me that one of Ryan’s “demands” for taking on the Speakership is he wants to have time away with his family, this from a man who has voted down paid family leave time and again.

BILL

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Gun Crazy

What mental illness causes NRA members to interpret “rational gun control laws” – you know, things like no Gatling Guns, waiting periods, background checks, etc. - as “WE’RE COMING FOR YOUR GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!?”

BILL