The goal thus far has been to hit the building across the alley with a flick of my smoked down to the filter cigarette butt.  I’m guessing it’s 25 feet.  Depending on the weather and the wind, I’m batting about 500.  I can over power petite women with my right index finger.

The new objective has become a flick and arc so expertly executed that the butt comes to rest on the window sill of that building directly opposite mine.  I believe this achievement will somehow magically coincide with a degree of prosperity that allows me to once again travel on a private jets to Vegas for no other reason than to eat expensive food, drink expensive liquor and party with loose and suggestible women.  It’s true, I’ve been there and done that.

In the meantime, the regular guy is out sick so I’ll be working the door.

I rarely applaud or speak or perish the thought, tear up at the television.  This last week I’ve found myself doing just that.

I don’t know about you but I’m fascinated and encouraged by events in Wisconsin this last week.  A portent perhaps, in opposition to something wicked which surely this way comes.  I long for this to be the real deal.  We all know the filthy and obscenely wealthy Koch brothers funded the roots of grass that became the tea party.  We should know the Koch brothers are the money behind the the Republican governors actively engaged in union busting in a dozen or more states.  We should be cognizant that it was Koch brother’s vulgar lucre that elected Scott Walker as governor of Wisconsin.  I hope we understand that unions are the very last power and money to stand behind the Democratic middle class and it’s ability to compete with Republican political action committees thanks to the “Citizens United” decision puked up by the Supreme Court late last year.  Thank you Scalia and pubic hair Thomas in particular for signing off on the whole charade.  Without mention of Thomas’ corporatist whore of a wife, thanks be to you two arrogant and conspicuously impeachable assholes for attending and speaking at events sponsored and held by the Koch brother dickheads to promote and implement their viciously avaricious agenda.

As Supreme Court Justices they should be ashamed yet there’s no imperative for them to give a mad fuck.

What chaps my ass is how they sell it.  Like it’s actually good for the mouth breathing great unwashed.  What draws blood from my calloused backside is how anxiously we buy it.

The Koch brothers.  Their own father was a founding member of the John Birch society fer fuck’s sake.  Those asshats were kicked out of the GOP forty years ago but……they’re back.  And the mutual admiration between them and the pee farty hatriots is like watching a pedophile rub one out on a public playground.  They can’t help but be aroused by the empty, unformed minds.  It’s fucking sick.

I’m convinced the Republican intelligentsia is pursuing the remaking of America into a third world country with reckless abandon.  Deregulation and lower taxes my ass, they drive hard and reckless for a one party America with two classes; a ruling elite and a working poor.  Understand that’s where we are.  More money, more power.  This is the fight here and now.  If you don’t realize and understand as much, you’re a goddamn fool.

The events in the Middle East and North Africa…….I mean what’s transpiring in Wisconsin, lends some hope.

It doesn’t get much worse than the here and now.

It may never get better.

There are strange and compelling things afoot at more than the Circle K.  Yeah, not just here, but across the globe.  Or rather not just in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia et al, but here.  See what I’m saying?  Here and now.  The world is teaching us a lesson and for once, we are listening.  Pizza has been ordered from a joint on State Street by folks in some 38 states and at least a handful of countries around the world including Egypt to feed the the non-violent protesters in Madison Wisconsin.  I’m more than a little giddy at the notion that we may be witnessing a revolution by the working class.  It’s about goddamn time.

The concentration of wealth that’s occurred in this country over the last ten years is mind bottling.  Like your mind is a bottle……..work with me here.

70,000 in Madison today and the media is covering it, unlike the anti-war protests of nearly a million people during the run up to the Iraq war when the media could be barely be bothered.  It isn’t so much that all the sudden Democrats and the people are abruptly recalcitrant.  In many ways, they’ve been there the whole time.  Certainly the people have, if not their elected representatives, who too often are so obviously without spine that it’s a wonder their heads don’t drag on the ground behind their legs and asses forcing them to pontificate up and back.  Something has changed.  Not only logic and common sense are on display but there’s an honest to Dog wind of compassion blowing not just through America but the world.  Solidarity and democracy are bursting forth.  And media is engaged.  Paying attention and covering it responsibly.  Or at least in earnest.

Might we have finally arrived at that tipping point so many of us paying attention have been pining for, anticipating, and some of us at least beginning to think might never come?

Fuck the queen, God save the honest, decent and hardworking.  They tell me he helps them that help themselves.

Here and now.

Drinks for my friends.

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