Jonah Goldberg — Fortunate SOB
Do you remember Jonah Goldberg? His mom was the woman who convinced Linda Tripp to tape her private conversations with the twenty-one year old Monica Lewinsky.
Goldberg has made his way into a high-paying profession where ethical standards don’t help you find work: Conservative punditry.
This article about Obama fear-mongering is the most unconsciously satiric thing I’ve ever read.
Look out Americans, your President is trying to trick you into creating jobs, improving education and fighting global warming with FEAR. Don’t let him trick you into capriciously preventing “moral hazard” and “creative destruction.” The consequences could be horrible: I might have to pay more taxes on the money I earn pooping out Conservative nonsense.
If Obama were conjuring terror alerts to distract us from NOT finding weapons of mass destruction in a country we invaded because of its weapons of mass destruction, then calling Obama’s well wrought rhetoric “fear mongering” might make sense.
Goldberg’s family legacy is a stain on the shapeless dress that is the politics of distraction. He’s the Kato Kaelin of the Lewinsky Scandal, and the LA Times should be ashamed they’re passing this drivel as discourse.
Arguing with the Losers
In teaching there’s a saying: Arguing with a student is like wrestling with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
In this analogy applied to politics, Rush Limbaugh is obviously the pig.
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For Some Reason It Never Feels Right
In high school, I was sexually desperate.
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From the people who brought you blatant Holocaust denial
How I Know My Soul is a Bit Rotten
1. I’ve never had a decent relationship with anyone. Not with a parent, nor with a boy. Not with a Jew. Not with a Goy. Not when I was nine, and not when I was ten. I used to be passive-aggressive about watching Friends. Even my pets have usually been aloof. Ask anyone I know for proof.
2. I’d eliminate the need to procreate from the human genome, if it were easy to do.
3. I only enjoy oral sex if the man is, what I perceive as, too good for me or married. I rarely cum with fat men.
4. Sometimes when I’m depressed, I think the only thing in my life I’ve ever done right is to not have a kid.
5. I find that as I get older that I’d rather not hear about child abuse rather than actually do anything to stop it.
6. I think people who’d rather cut taxes than build schools should have to park there their car in Richmond, CA once a week.
7. I think racial humor is hilarious. Misuse of the word Oriental always makes me smile.
8. I think having a kid should cost you money on your taxes.
9. Knowing that 99% of the girls are drugged, abused or both, I still watch porn, and somehow, I always feel worse for the guys—those peach tanned, van-driver types.
10. I’m glad my parents got divorced. I only wish they’d tortured each other longer.
“For Some Reason It Never Feels Right” is the occasional blog of Linda Weissberg MFT.
The Illest Place to Put a Dime
My Great Aunt Ginny never married. Because of that she had become sort of pet of the family. She’d come live with a brother or a sister for a month or two, and then try life again on her own. When things got bad or tight again, she’d send a postcard to the oldest sister, Ethel, who’d arrange a place for her to stay.
She was a decent house guest. She had one decent dessert she’d make every Sunday, Lemon something. And she always wafted along with a fragrant scent of something that seemed to lighten moods and soothe stomachs. She swore it was Dove soap, but her married sisters, whenever they congregated in groups of two or more, forever complained that their single sister was far too possessive of her personal whatnots. And that, obviously, was part of her problem. I think her pleasant smell and demeanor kept our family from overreacting to her occasional fits of strange behavior. Someone was always willing to take her in. My mother often bragged, “You know what the Kennedys would’ve done to her, don’t you?”
Ginny stayed with us once. It was just before the home and the lawsuit and all that mess.
It was pretty uneventful. I had been up all night so I was ditching school and sleeping in. Around eleven, the doorbell rang. I put my glasses on and had my retainer half out when I heard the front door open.
I snuck out my bedroom door and Pink Panthered to the top of the staircase. There I saw my Great Aunt Ginny standing at the door—in her bra and panties.
Loose skin vibrated into every direction as she pressed rumpled dollar bills against her bare belly.
The delivery boy—who was my age, ok looking, not great, not terrible—was watching Ginny like a puppy watches a burrito in a child’s lap.
When Ginny grabbed the pizza box out of the boy’s hands, I had to turn away.
“And here’s the tip,” she said.
“Nah. It’s ok, m’am, seriously,” the boy said, suddenly hurried.
Ginny implored, in something resembling words.
“But seriously,” the kid said, now horrified, “that’s the illest place in the world to put a dime.”
“For Some Reason It Never Feels Right” is the occasional blog of Linda Weissberg MFT.
The California Catastrophe and the Death of the Front Page
California’s economic nightmare is about to get a whole lot worse.
If we were reading our local newspapers, we’d know that the budget compromise that Governor Schwarzenegger has nearly worked out with the Republicans and Democrats in the state legislature will do massive damage to California’s schools and economic future.
$8 billion will be cut from K-12 and community colleges. Another $800 million plus from the Cal State and UC systems.
Basically, as Californians by the tens of thousands are tossed out of work and not able to find another job, they won’t be able to find the classes they need to pursue the training and education they need.
To magnify the problem, schools will be laying of hundreds, maybe thousands of educators and support staff. This is our Republicans’ idea of a stimulus.
So as the Bush Depression accelerates at a reckless pace in California our state government is taking off the seatbelt and disarming the air bags.
The worst part is it seems that nobody notices what’s going on. I know more people read the news now. But since more and more people get their information online, they may never even come across local reporting.
Without a front page we’re forced to skim, life becomes an endless BS bitch session about Net Neutrality or Zionists or Miley Cyrus’ slant eyes.
If we were reading our local paper, we’d know that a minority of Republicans in the State Senate and Assembly are holding our collective future hostage.
The only taxes they’ll even consider are those that punish the working poor while slashing services. It’s Bush logic that’s been rejected again and again. But because of California’s insane budgeting process, it’s happening again in the most Progressive state in the Union.
This generation has never seen the likes of the crisis that’s about to hit California. And the Republicans in this state will get away with it, if they can keep news about their dirty work contained to the front page of our local newspapers.
The Senate Cut California’s Kids Out of the Stimulus
Unemployment in California is already near 10%. The catastrophe has begun.
As we Twitter around, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and California’s Democrats are slashing at California’s budget. A $40 billion dollar definitely no deficit is no joke. And since our Governor and the Republicans in the Legislature who have enough votes to prevent any budget from passing have been unwilling to pass any tax increase that doesn’t regressively punish the poor, you can bet one day soon Californians are going to wake up to a nightmare scenario.
Millions of people will be put out of work just as community colleges are cut. And that’s the good news. Adult education in some districts may be completely eliminated.
Californians one hope was the Stimulus bill supported by President Obama and Congressional Democrats. By now you know what happened. To appease three Republican lawmakers, who are scared shitless by Obama’s numbers anyway, $80 billion dollars or 600,000 jobs were cut from the bill.
The bulk of the cuts were made to prospective funding to support education spending by the states. This crucial money isn’t onloy going to create jobs and opportunities for kids and laid-off workers, it will save jobs. Lots of jobs.
California’s predicament foreshadows the problems the rest of the country will face soon. Services are stressed and politicians are unwilling to ask the rich to pay more in taxes. It’s an untenable situation.
Governor Schwarzenegger, speak to your Republican colleagues. Let them know that their ironic attempts to teach us about spending will cost California too dearly. Remind your peers that the Republicans let the Depression go for years before taking any serious action. See if you can get them to remember what the Hoover brand did for the GOP.
Sending money to the states now is crucial to this economy, and Washington can’t let California go down the drain. If three Republicans can cost us the educational future of our most vulnerable citizens, then we are begging for a depression, a depression that will cost our grandkids more than government spending ever could.
The Congress needs to restore the state funding for education. And they need to do it now.
President Obama, Please Don’t Get Fooled Again
Hopefully this week Barrack Obama and his White House learned a lesson.
After spending the salad days of his presidency meeting unconditionally with Republicans, our President was completely blindsided by a coordinated full-scale attack on his stimulus program.
Did Obama forget that the same maniacs who ran policy for the Bush Administration are now running the anti-Stimulus offensive?
Obama’s open hand was met with a Republican clenched fist as they parroted rhetoric the Obama 08 campaign would have combated and quelled faster than Ted Haggard could put on a pair of chaps.
The good news is we know the Republican talking points don’t work when they’re met with a coordinated rebuttal and counter punch.
Fianlly, Obama is placing the blame for this crisis back at the GOP’s feet. And he needs to trumpet how embarrassed these people should be to offer the same BS that got us here to get us out.
When FDR was elected there were already breadlines because the GOP doesn’t know to make government work. Obama needs to say he’s not willing to wait till unemployment hits 10%. He has a plan, a plan the American people demand. The GOP better get with the program or face the consequences that other Hooverites had to suffer.
Speed Dating
The birthday gifts my mother gave me were more like a series of insults than a present. A new outfit with an empire waist to hide my belly. A gift certificate to a salon she found on Yelp that specializes in curly hair. And one VIP admission to the Jewish Shalom Speed Dating event in Albany last Wednesday.
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