618 Rants and Raves

 Every once in a while, I feel obliged to update and re-post this list of Republican sex offenders, since the GQP crowd keeps demanding the right to be our moral arbiters. Republican aide Alan D...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2023/06/return-of-hall-of-shame.html

Much has been said over the years about how racism is endemic in the law enforcement world. As a former cop myself, I can tell you that probably 90% of the roughly one million police officers in ...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2023/06/law-enforcement-and-racism.html

  Apparently, I am a moron. I posted yesterday on Facebook about the fatal shooting at a high school graduation on Virginia. Seven people were shot, two of whom died. I said this: > Another...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2023/06/i-am-moron.html

 First, let me clarify: "drunks," to me, are people who relish being intoxicated all day. They don't realize they have a problem, and they see no need to change. "Alcoholics," on the other hand,...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2023/03/why-i-cant-stand-drunks.html

 We are approaching the 108th anniversary of the Eastland disaster. The Eastland, a Great Lakes steamer, had been chartered as one of four or five vessels to ferry employees of Western Electric...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-youngest-victims.html

 The Philly Inquirer has an article today on the city’s problem with filling openings in its police department. Mike Neilon, spokesman for the FOP Lodge 5 (the union) said, “All of that com...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2021/04/trouble-finding-police-recruits-cry-me.html

I've had it with drunks. I will not deal with them any more. And I don't want to hear "alcoholism is a disease." No, it is NOT a disease, it is a choice. Nobody forces a person to drink. Nobo...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2021/04/drunks-pfui.html

 Apparently, under Facebook's "Community Standards," it is perfectly acceptable for far-right, antigovernment extremists to call for the lynching of the Vice President and the Speaker of the Hou...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2021/03/facebooks-community-standards.html

 The Detroit Fire Department has had two DUI crashes involving on-duty personnel in one one week. In the first incident, an intoxicated firefighter drove his rescue truck into a parked car. In...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2021/03/motor-city-mayhem.html

 Texas and Mi'sippi both lifted all Covid-related restrictions yesterday. The two governors, both slack-jawed drooling idiot trumpers, took their actions "to show America that we don't need sma...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2021/03/texas-and-misippi-racing-to-shallow-end.html

 While doing some research on the issues involved with voluntary and involuntary isolation and quarantine, I ran across the case of Robert Daniels, a Russian who had been admitted into the US de...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2021/03/isolation-and-quarantine.html

Texas governor Greg "Free-dumb" Abbott is lifting most of the orders he himself instituted to try to control Covid-19 in the Texas Republic, apparently because: Free-dumb. Abbott obviously succu...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2021/03/texas-because-free-dumb.html

  The two trumpers working day shift showed up this morning at 6:30, as usual. They were talking politics, and from what I overheard (since they know better than to tell ME their bullshit): ...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2021/02/i-work-with-idiots-and-i-mean-idiots.html

I was just going through the blogroll and found that "skippy the bush kangaroo" was gone. Uh-oh. Tried googling the blog title. And found an obit. Gil Christner was an actor, comedian, and wr...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2020/05/damn-this-sucks.html

... they show no symptoms. Just got a text message from my employer, reminding us that 80% of people with Covid are asymptomatic, and telling us what to do if we think we may have been near on...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-problem-with-asymptomatic-people-is.html

According to CNN, Dr Anthony Fauci has committed the cardinal sin : > Fauci's transgression is to base his evaluations -- after decades of > public service and expertise fighting...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2020/05/trump-v-fauci-final-chapter.html

Heather Cox Richardson , writing in today's issue of "Letters From an American, " makes a very ominous point, one that a growing number of us are making. Discussing the declassification of the na...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2020/05/its-coming-people-batten-down-hatches.html

The state is allowing retail businesses in 12 of the 16 counties to repopen to walk-in customers today, as long as certain precautions are in place: occupancy signage, plexiglass partitions by re...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2020/05/grand-reopening-with-whimper-not-bang.html

That's what the trumpers and the Covid deniers and the ones who protest simply because they enjoy being pains in the ass are saying. Got news for you, kiddies: we will never be back to normal,...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2020/05/we-have-to-get-back-to-normal.html

One can’t advertise tobacco products on radio or TV because the contain nicotine, but one can advertise e-cigarettes which contain more nicotine, and are flavored to appeal to younger people?

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2020/05/how-come.html

... worth it... I love than reactions from the anchors. https://www.ctv.ca/Your-Morning/Video/Teachers-song-about-her-feelings-during-the-pandemic-made-our-hosts-cry-of-laughter-vid1943353?jws...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2020/05/three-weeks-old-but.html

WLBZ TV is calling for snow on Saturday. One to six inches. In May.

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2020/05/youve-got-to-be-kidding.html

Republicans here in Maine are bitching because they’ve been “locked out” of negotiations about reopening the state. This is rich, coming from the party that has systematically excluded De...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2020/05/sucks-to-be-you.html

Truck fump and all his zombie followers. WE ARE THE TRUE AMERICANS. https://youtu.be/TvWWXv59apY

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2020/05/truck-fump.html

I. ONCE AGAIN, FOX ADMITS IT LIES Fox is being sued by WASHLITE (Washington League for Increased Transparency and Ethics), which is claiming that Fox's coverage of the Coronavirus/Covid-19 pan...

http://618rants.blogspot.com/2020/05/miscellaneous-musings-and-random.html