Take on the endless barrage of campaign emails

I'm excited for Tuesday mostly to get my inbox and text messages back. You think you do the right thing by donating to defeat the biggest tyrant our country has seen since King George and the thanks you get is the constant spam from every corner. I'm all for fundraising but thy have gotten to the point that the Stop2End thing isn't worth the effort anymore

Please give me peace.

Take on Trump's makeup

While Biden decided that the October surprise was going to his basket of deplorables moment as a final FU to Kamala for showing him the door, Trump was at some rally doing his normal neo-Nazi crap. The conspiracy theory, victim blaming. Xenophonic rhetoric is all kind of par for the course but what has continues to befuddle me is how much more makeup he's adding.

He's like the guy who wants to make it appear like he's growing hair back but doesn't take his time. So overnight he goes from looking like Mr Magoo to looking like Stumpy Alec Baldwin.
The color tone is so odd too, it seems like he's channeling his inner zwarte piet.

Take on the Bronx

The dude who ripped the ball out of Mookie Betts' glove is going to be a legend in the Bronx. I mean it was utterly ridiculous and shows the low class these loser are but if Jeffrey Maier can get free ice cream for life, this maricone should get free bud lite for weeks.

Take on the Nazi rally

There is no perfect person to host the big Trump Nazi rally than Jim Dolan. He's never had a moral position worth anything and he loves making money.

The dude is a vile human, bad sports owner and I believe a close friend of Harvey W. I can't stand this dude but the fact he benefited from this debacle on American democracy is no shock. I just wish we could get him back ro irrelevance.

Take on the Nazi rally

Trump's Nazi rally at MSG had the typical cast of characters including Rudy and the Trump brothers but also brought a couple of new burners including the comedian who called Puerto Rico the garbage dump in the ocean. How this county can see this blatantly racist crap and seem unbothered or even funny makes your question all humanity.

Take on mayor Adams

Can Eric Adams just go away?? I've been part of this city for nearly 30 years and nobody has been a bigger disaster than Adams and those includes Rudy who so famously burned it all to the ground. We can't hope that his service will end soon because I'm not sure we can take another kick to the groin.

Take on the WaPo

When a bunch of rich guys own our media outlets, they somehow decide to get scared. It happened in California last week and now Jeff Bezos is runninf scared of Trump and saying the Post will no longer make endorsements for president.
He's killed small businesses and now he's going to have this on his head.

Take on two weeks.

At what point do we start to say this just lunacy, we are less than two weeks, wait less than 10 days away from the most important election of our lifetime. I know that it has been overstated but I can't tell you how important this one feels.

When they said that Kamala didn't perform well at the CNN , this is where our media isn't being responsible. What they really should've said that Kamala and Trump are taking two entirely different tests. She may stumble on a question about Ukraine, while he's praising Adolph fucking Hitler.

At what point does this country come to their senses? At what point do we realize this isn't just some fringe craziness. Half our electorate believes that Donald J Trump is the second coming.

I know the assignment. Question is is the rest of the country know it.

Take on Trump's Hitler love

We have less than two weeks to make sure that we don't elect a president who has invoked Hitler positively. I can't believe this needs to be said but when a candidate has made it known he wants to be seen as a fascist; we shouldn't just vote against him but we should run for the frigging hills if he's elected.

Take on fat mahomes

Been thinking about this.  Mahomes is like Jokic.   He's the best player in the league that is supposed to be dominated by athletes but looks like a total slob. 

Show them both topless and it looks like me and a couple of buddies hanging out at the pool in the Hamptons, Jokic or Mahomes both have no muscle definition and are easily carrying an extra 20 pounds.  They look more like middle managers than elite athletes.  

But it's not just the eyeball test when they both play, if somehow looks like they are playing in slow motion. Nobody can seem to stop them even when they are basically stationary.   It's so weird 

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take on Tua

Tua said he wasn't going to wear a guardian cap because he's obviously already suffering from CTE. I get the idea of personal choices but if I'm the Dolphins and I'm on the hook for that contract, I'm not letting the dude on the field without every possible bit of protection out there. Either that or we strap him down and make him a punt returner.

Take on Arnie

We all love Jack but there really was nobody bigger than Arnold Palmer. I remember reading stories about him as a kid, he was the first to need a full time caddy as he was already carrying around a personal bag of clubs. Then when we all thought his legend couldn't grow, he came out with a drink that is absolutely something any kid could already invented themselves but what made his so legendary was how much the ladies loved it.

But still his legend never got bigger than it got today.

Take on Bret Baier.

No one is a bigger lose than Bret Baier and not only because he spells his first name like an idiot. He was suppose to be the least partisan part of the entire FoxNews team and if he had any credibility before last week, he lost that too. What's amazing is how Kamala stood up to him and all his bullshit mansplaining. This reminds me of when a referee in a basketball game wants to make the game about himself because this was all about him wanting to be able to go back to Daddy Trump and show him the goods.

What a fat loser

Take on abused chickens

When you are served what looks like a bunch of chickens which have been physically abused, you realize that the world is sort of upside down.  We Americans love white meat chicken but a proper Asian wouldn't be caught dead eating that flavorless cardboard.  

Eyeballs, guts and gizzard are delicacies and as much as I'm adventurous with my eating,I'm not that adventurous. 

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Take on no WiFi on an international flight

Dan somebody explain to me how in 2024 an international flight of 14 hours does not have WiFi? This ain't new technology and there is nothing about it that makes a plane unsafe but to think they want me staring at the back of the seat for a half a day is straight insanity

Take on Asian customs

Ask anybody who has travelled internally for business and they will tell you the best feeling is arriving at the airport after a multiple week trip. Nothing compares to the weeks long experience of sleeplessness which is basic torture but add to that a steady diet of tasty and interesting food but some of which makes your stomach do backflips. After the nights of too much food and way too much alcohol, that flight home feels like you've finally jumped the gate at the prison yard.
What's less fun is that before you can board these Asian countries will make you stand in endless lines to leave the country. It's the final test of your sanity as every part of your soul wants to rip the head off of the guy standing behind Youn without Kim Jung Un haircut and fish breath.
Just get me to the guy checking passports

Take on the international reach

I travel half way around the world and when I look up, I'm still haunted by this orange treacherous f*cker. I don't know how or why he's been able to do this but he's branded his horrible name across horrible properties in many pretty far flung places and it seems to work. I'm not sure what the common sentiment but I've away heard some positive ones is but I'm sure that Trump would be the first to scream that they are eating the dogs and cats. I hate him but somehow he's got half the world under his spell.

Take on the Great Firewall

Leaving China gives you a sense of relief, a bit because you feel like your stomach gets a break but also because not being able to use most of the apps you are so used to, is really disconcerting. You are limited to the CNN in your room which plays the same three stories over and over and the Chinese daily paper. You can't get onto the NYTimes website, you can't use Instagram or Threads or Reddit. You depend on friends and family sending texts with info but those are few and far between. So when you finally land somewhere else, it feels like you have been sprung from jail. Even if that was only a five day sentence

Take on the roller coaster in my stomach.

One of the best things about traveling in China is having incredibly interesting food, drinking incredible quantities of bad alcohol and then driving incredible distances in cramped cars on cramped roads with dudes sleeping on your shoulder spewing their fish breath.   

What is even more fun is when that food and that booze and that turbulence come together and your stomach starts to do its version kung fu and when that start you pull over and you run to a bathroom and find a hole.   

I get that it's all plumbing but when you are an overweight totally inflexible six foot American, the idea of hovering your  swamp ass over a hole is, well, interesting.     

I can't eat spaghetti without spilling it on my shirt and I can't hit a dart board six beers in, so what the hell are chances of this me landing this plane on the runway and not all over the back of my pants??

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Take on shaking hands with gloves on.

I get the idea of wearing a bib when you eat a lobster or even a red sauced pasta but here they wear gloves for anything Walking down the street, sitting in the park or even when they eat food.

I'm not totally sure what the idea is as it might be some Covid era habit but the idea of trying to pound a steak while wearing Trojans while fumbling with my chopstick seems like something I'd be doing at this stage in my life.

Take on Wuhan

You have to love looking at a flight map and seeing the city that basically shut down the world a few years ago.

I've been to Wuhan a few times, the hotel was Ok, the people were nice but the open food market was amazing. I've never found myself surrounded by quite as many delicacies, feeling like a regular Anthony Bordain.

Can't wait to go back.

Take on colon cleansers

You never know what you get when you walk into a market in central China but seeing a plate of what looked like bull dicks was a bit more than my stomach could take. I have absolutely no idea what these things were but to say they look like what you get when you drink that juice before a colonoscopy would be an understatement. I'm all for interesting food choice but ones that look like what I scoop up behind my dog isn't one of the.

Take on the smog

Nothing tells you that you are not I. Kansas anymore than looking out of your windows and seeing the smog as thick as a drape. Not only do you not get any natural sun, the soot enters your windpipes the second you get in and every time you sneeze it looks like you are a character on Stranger Things sneezing out one of those demigorgans

Lucky lungs

Take on the smog

Nothing tells you that you are not I. Kansas anymore than looking out of your windows and seeing the smog as thick as a drape. Not only do you not get any natural sun, the soot enters your windpipes the second you get in and every time you sneeze it looks like you are a character on Stranger Things sneezing out one of those demigorgans

Lucky lungs

Take on the smog

Nothing tells you that you are not I. Kansas anymore than looking out of your windows and seeing the smog as thick as a drape. Not only do you not get any natural sun, the soot enters your windpipes the second you get in and every time you sneeze it looks like you are a character on Stranger Things sneezing out one of those demigorgans

Lucky lungs

Take on the smog

Nothing tells you that you are not I. Kansas anymore than looking out of your windows and seeing the smog as thick as a drape. Not only do you not get any natural sun, the soot enters your windpipes the second you get in and every time you sneeze it looks like you are a character on Stranger Things sneezing out one of those demigorgans

Lucky lungs

Take on the horrible movie choices

Stepping onto a 14 hour flight always brings a bit of anxiety although the second I sit down, I usually feel the excitement of the trip overtake the anxiousness. That excitement doesn't last long when you realize that the movie offerings in English are limited to like 8 choices with half being kids cartoons and adult options as interesting to me as staring the front seat for the duration of the seat. Guardians of the Galaxy, a Million Miles Away, Elemental?? This is worse than Chinese water torture.

Take on terminal 1 at JFK

I've flown to Asia more than two dozen times and although I'm not nearly as antsy about it as I once was, it's still a crazy trip. The country has changed a lot and as my second time back to China since COVID, it's certainly going to be interesting. What never does change is that JFK's terminal one still feels like third world country airport. It's crowded, hot, badly laid out and offers nothing to do while you wait for hours on end. It's crazy that with the upgrades they have done to Newark and LaGuardia as well as the stuff they are doing at other terminals at JFK, that everybody seems totally fine just leaving this the hellhole it is.

Take in tax on unrealized gains.

Although sadly in nowhere near threshold of the unrealized gains tax, I do wonder what it really means. I know we are only talking about the uber wealthy, who can certainly afford it but I prefer a tax that is not somewhat progressive. Being taxed on unrealized gains would be a killer for normal Americans but if we breach it for the ultra rich, how long before they extend it to the crazy rich, the ultra rich and just the rich? the I feel like taxes need to be written with everything and everybody in mind front the start of this is ever going to work.

Take on the new wonder twins

There is no bigger blowhard than Trump....except maybe Elon Musk. The fact these two are playing in the same team now makes me hate my decision to buy a Tesla one I regret even more. I can't decide which of the two of them is more insecure because it's gotta be really close. One thing about both "billionaires" is that neither seems to have done a thing with their money to do anything for anybody other than themselves.

Take on the weird fruit.

We got some weird fruit delivered to work today and when we cut it up I could only describe it as looking like a maggot covered vulva. I don't know what the heck this thing was but it was both crunchy and slimy and tasted like fermented jock itch.

Take on Cheryl Hines

Nobody has disappointed me more than Cheryl Hines in her post Curb life. I always assumed that she was sort of normal but her marriage to RFK Jr has taken any semblance of normal from her. I don't totally get it but the entire thing is hopefully just a giant bit for season 11

Take on the panic-buying toilet paper crowd

I hate people so much. My business will have direct effects to the port strike but that isn't my biggest fear. My biggest fear is that a bunch of inbreds are going to run to every Costco and buy up all the toilet paper. Now I'm stuck having to wipe my ass with the New York Post like a homeless person.

Take on Apple's predictive text

The new IOS sucks for a million reasons but mostly I'm annoyed because somehow the predictive texting and auto correct have gotten miserably bad. I don't know what it is exactly but it's almost totally unusable which is shockingly stupid. But we also can't figure out why when things are supposed to be progressing, we somehow decided to drive ass backwards.