Random Thoughts

There was a time leading up to the election that the rightwing punditocracy was predicting that the great DailyKos blog was about to implode due to dissension within the ranks of its readers and unease within the Democratic Party about where netroots outfits like that august organ was leading the.

Well, the crayon warriors were almost right. DailyKos did implode....the Republican Party during the election. Gloat here.

Those of you who live in my beloved Southern California have undoubtedly heard about the racism lawsuit against the L.A. Fire Department for a prank some of its brave men in yellow pulled on an African-American colleague where they put some dogfood in his spaghetti. The L.A. City Council, which has been a bad joke since the turn of the 20th century, decided to pay out $2.7 million to make the ensuing civil suit go away, even after photos emerged of the plaintiff, Tennie Pierce, pulling even more asinine practical jokes than the one he was afflicted by. Pierce apparently became distraught when his colleagues kidded him about wolfing the dog chow-laden pasta and decided to get himself some legal muscle.

After the photos of the pranks that Pierce himself was a part of came out through the auspices of the unlistenable John and Ken show on sieg heil on your dial KFI, the fecal matter went Jackson Pollack and L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, generally a shitbrain for all seasons, did the right thing and yanked the settlement. Even the leftwing L.A. Weekly cheered the mayor's action.

Of course, as you can imagine, the usual winger suspects such as World Wackmaster Daily are expressing ecstacy in their Idaho bunkers because it points out how much of a scourge leftwing political correctness is. The unfortunate thing is that view is correct (but then again, there is such a thing as conservative correctness, too. Just ask the Southern Poverty Law Center).

Too many blacks are all too willing to use phony charges of racism as a chance for a payday and they have to be called on it.

Speaking of which, fuckhead Michael Richards tried to reach Tawana Brawley playmate Al Sharpton as a way of expressing a mea culpa for his n-word laced invective against a couple of black hecklers at an L.A. nightclub. Richards has thus done something that makes me think of him less than I already did (I never cared for him on the old Fridays program and I thought Seinfeld was a snooze).

The problem with Richards doing that, aside from the fact that even most liberals think Sharpton is human dogshit, is that by paying obeisance to the shitwad he has sabotaged his chances of replacing Dennis Miller as the rightwing's favorite unfunny comedian. The use of the "n-word" would have nicely burnished Richards conservative bonafides, but that is now cast asunder. D'oh!

On my position concerning the tasing of a UCLA student a while back, there is a rather unsavory tinge to the officer who did the deed and he shouldn't have been around to even be there, in my opinion.

The Long Beach Police Department is rather infamous for its cavalier observance of excessive force regulations. A few years back, a former police officer named Don Jackson was stopped by the LBPD for supposedly weaving in traffic (he wasn't). The problem was that Jackson was being trailed by an unmarked NBC news van. Can you see where this is headed? The officer made Jackson assume the position against a shop window and then just shoved Jackson's head through it while the NBC crew filmed all this in disbelief.

The Caucasian officer was eventually brought up on charges and, get this, acquitted, in a trial in Hawthorne, California. The officer had his job with the LBPD restored as a result and, AFAIK, is still on that city's force today.

So you obviously have to go a loooooooooooooong way to get pink slipped by the Long Beach PD, but the guy who was involved in the UCLA incident was. He claims it was for doing paperwork too slowly or some such bullshit. I just wonder if there were any dead bodies that actually engendered his firing.

Jackson himself went off the deep end and is more or less on a vendetta against all cops now, even backing O.J. Simpson during his murder trial.

Incidentally, for those of you behind the wall in George Bush's personal gloryhole, your man and noted pot smoking surf nazi Dana Rohrabacher regularly refers to his home district Huntington Beach policemen and women as, and this is a direct quote, "stormtroopers." So fuck off you winger assholes who think it is righties who favor the constabulary. Hell, his wife is a convict. That should tell you something. as would Rohrabacher's and Scott Baugh's relationship with a child molester.

Finally, a note to Florida Representative: Alcee Hastings: resign. Do your party and the country a favor you scumbag.