On the Elegance and Unforced Beauty of Vera Miles

I discovered her when I was a kid but by then she was already in her '40s so I kinda' missed out. Thankfully we can go back in time now and boy have I ever.

 On the Fact that I Can Recall a Whole Heep of Shoving (AKA, Putting One's Hands On Somebody Else) All Throughout Grammar School and Junior High and Never Once Witnessing Any of Those Kids Brandish a Sharp Object (Never Mind, Employ One) - And I'm presuming that middle-class blacks coming from intact families and having gone to decent schools probably had a similar experience.......Or let us sincerely hope so.

 On the Magnitude of Fuckery that's Requisite to Think that a Person Can Slaughter Another Person Simply Because that Individual "Put Their Hands On Them" - Probably in the category of, epic, I'd say, in that how dumb does a person have to be to think that you can bring knives to fist-fights and guns to knife-fights? See what I'm sayin' here?

  On the Fact that Not Only Are Countless Democratic Politicians Accepting an Endorsement from this Dangerous Imbecilic Nut-Case, They're Actually Clamoring for One - And gee, what a surprise, nobody from the corporate media has asked any of these political a-holes to condemn or disavow Mr. Piker (you know, like they did with Trump, asking him a gazillion times to condemn neo-Nazis and white supremacists). Nope, not even after he incited violence countless times and praised 9/11. Talk about a free-pass.

 On Angela Merkel and David Cameron (Two of the Stupidest Heads of State of My Entire Life...... but I Digress) Both Having Once Admitted that Multiculturalism Has Failed Mightily and Yet Doggedly Continuing with the Nonsense Nonetheless - I'm not certain but my intuition informs me that they probably blamed their own citizens for it. They are after all, mostly white.

 On the One Reality that Trump Seems Not to Have Grasped Thus Far Being the Harsh Fact that Islamist Ramrods Never Ever Quit (Never Mind, Unconditionally Surrender) and so When it Comes to Dealing with These Shitheads, Managing the Situation and Being Strategic Just Might Be the Most Prudent Course of Action Here - And as most of the people who read my stuff already know, regime change policies, not a big fan. a) They almost always make matters worse and b) the weaponry that the U.S. hands over in these shitfests has a vexing tendency to be aimed back at us eventually. The one positive here is that the Iranian people (largely of Persian stock) are easily the sanest and most sophisticated in that region but still, kinda' dicey, I would caution.

 On the Mainstream Whore Media Now Opting to Call the Recent Inner-City Riots, "Teen Takeovers" - And per usual they all started spouting this nonsensical bullshit at the exact same time ( a la the walls are closing in Trump, Hillary Clinton is powering through, etc.). Not saying that it's any sort of organized conspiracy or anything like that but more so a social contagion in which everybody knows the playbook and just falls into line. As for their motivation regarding this one, I suspect that it's just another reframing of the narrative in which they get to eschew the word, riot, and camouflage the race of the perpetrators. One of their standard slights of hand, in other words.