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The Great Chick-Fil-A Sauce crisis of 2021 has some of the crazier members of the GOP freaking out.  It's always an American sport to blame whoever the current president is for any particular woe, whether hizonner had anything to do with the problem or not.  Democrats do it to Republicans. The GOP does it to Democrats. Just normal, stupid politics.  Sometimes, though, the stupidity rises to a whole new level. Introducing the Great Chick-Fil-A Sauce Crisis of 2021. Apparently, there are industry-wide shortages of some condiments, forcing Chick-Fil-A to limit sauce packets to a starvation level one sauce per entree, two sauces per meal and three sauces er 30-count nuggets. Oh, how will we ever survive?!?!?!?  The problem s eems to have a pretty reasonable source . The Centers for Disease Control says restaurants should refrain from using condiments like full sized ketchup bottles and salt and pepper shakers in favor of individualized packets. The resulting demand for t...

Why was Irish President Michael D. Higgins  fidgeting during a press briefing? There was a good and cute reason why. Leading politicians often step out dramatically from their offices or homes to deliver remarks to an awaiting press.  So it was recently with Irish President Michael D. Higgins, who stood on the lawn of his home in front of a microphone to deliver a tribute to actor Tom Hickey, who recently died.  Television viewers saw Higgins from his waist up as they watched the address.   As Higgins was speaking, why was he fidgeting his right arm so much? Was something wrong?  And it seemed the bottom of his suit jacket kept moving oddly. Hmm. A wider angle lens revealed what the issue is.   Watch the video and you will find out immediately (Cute moment warning!)

Randy Rain   Randy Rainbow is gracing our YouTube viewing again today with yet another video.   This time he takes to task all those GOPers in Congress who still are in the cult of Donald Trump by doing a takeoff on the " The Trolley Song" from the 1944 musical "Meet Me In St. Louis," starring Judy Garland.    This new version stars an ensemble cast consisting of Randy Rainbow, Randy Rainbow, Randy Rainbow, and others including the treasured Randy Rainbow.  You'll see what I mean when you watch the video.  As usual, Rainbow starts the festivities with a "news interview, in which our interviewer notes that Josh Hawley is "the most famous fist in the Senate if you don't count Lindsay Graham, but that's another story." Then we get into the musical, and Rainbow gleefully skewers the GOP throughout his tuneful trip to St. Louis.  Here's the vid. As always, click on the YouTube logo for best viewing. 

"No yoga for kids, please, we're Alabama!" Apparently, lawmakers in Alabama are afraid of some odd things.   Yoga, for example. Apparently, doing yoga could make you very un-Christian, or at least do un-Christian things, so it has no place in Alabama. At least that's the opinion of a number of Republican state legislators.  Last month, a bill that would have allowed yoga (allowed, not mandated) was shot down once again in the Alabama legislature.  According to the Associated Press, a bill was introduced to allow yoga in schools. The AP reported:  ".....representatives for two conservative groups objected, saying they were worried it could lead to the promotion of Hinduism or guided meditation practices. The Alabama lawmaker sponsoring the bill, a former college athlete, said the bill is about exercise and not religion.  'This whole notion that if you do yoga, you'll become Hindu - I've been doing yoga for 10 years and I go to church and I'm very m...

This turtle crashed through the windshield of a car in  Florida. A woman was injured, but the turtle only suffered a scratched shell. We all hate it when something flies up on the highway and dings or cracks our windshields. It's even scarier if you're unlucky enough to have something crash through the window as you're driving.    And the thought of that object crashing through the windshield being a turtle is just absurd.  But that's exactly what happened in Florida recently.  Because, as we all know, weird news always gets generated from Florida.  According to the Daytona News Journal, describing the incident on Interstate 95 in Port Orange, Florida: "The 71-year-old woman, a passenger in the vehicle, suffered a half-inch to an inch cut above one of her eyes but did not lose consciousness Port Orange police spokesman Officer Andre Fleming said late Wednesday." Authorities said the woman is going to be fine. Speculation is another car hit the turtle, laun...

Sad faced Larry Kudlow says Biden will force us to drink plant-based beer. .Who wants to tell Larry beer has always  been plant based.  Donald Trump's goofy former economics advisor Larry Kudlow was in yet another panic on Fox News the other day.  Apparently, Kudlow is trembling in his Tom Ford loafers because the Green New Deal, and by extension, President Biden's climate change policies, will force us all to drink only plant based beer!  The horror! Beer is currently made out of hops, grain and yeast --- oh right! Hops and grains are plants! The evil Green New Deal has already changed, um, nothing about beer.  Who wants to tell Kudlow the news? Never mind that the Green New Deal doesn't tell us how much meat we can or cannot consume. Biden's climate policy makes no mention of how much meat consumption Americans will be allowed. But, the ever fearful Kudlow still wants to rile the ever-fearful Trump base. His rant: "America has to, get this, America has to stop...

Ben Shapiro, proud of his, um, wood, outside a  Home Depot in his mocked viral video.   Ben Shapiro bought a little piece of wood at Home Depot.   This sounds like a who cares sentence, but leave it to Shapiro to make this into another farce.  Shapiro, for those who don't know him, is a young, hapless conservative pundit who is expert at self-owns and non-sensical, "helpful" suggestions.  A classic example: He once gave this simple, elegant solution to people who will eventually have their homes flooded by rising sea levels brought on by climate change.  Shapiro sees this as no problem at all.  The flooded homeowners can just sell their property and move.  Sell to who? Aquaman? Anyway, Shapiro is pissed off these days because several large Georgia-based corporations, like Delta and Coca Cola, object to Georgia's new voter suppression laws. Everybody knows the laws are meant to get rid of black voters to keep the GOP in various offices. (It n...