The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    "May you live in interesting times"

    By artappraiser on Thu, 09/26/2019 - 4:21pm |

    Any other boomers having the realization: we did and we do? This tweet hit me hard like that:

     Or, if you prefer: what a long strange trip it's been.

    Comments

    I'm still having trouble figuring out why dressing up in drag for "fun", i.e. to make fun of women, isn't the same level of disgrace as blackface, with women traditionally scorned, made fun of, sold off into slavery, sexual & physically abused, sometimes killed, and otherwise maintaining their status of the abused in much of the world.

    Having a couple of fuckwad abusers like Trump & Giuliani (friends of Jeffrey Epstein) accepted doing it only adds to my cognitive dissonance.

    But that's just me being me.

     


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 09/27/2019 - 3:43am

    On that I have seen some minor kerfuffles among the more radical LGBTQ set, along the lines of drag queens demeaning women...I vaguely recalll something Andrew Sullivan tried to do a 'splainer on for the youngins, how this is in the tradition of clowns exaggerating human condition, probably to no avail, likely soon it will ramp up and RuPaul will be considered persona non grata, one and the same with Trumpworld...


    by artappraiser on Fri, 09/27/2019 - 4:19am

    This isn't the only video of Giuliani dressing in drag.It's a thing with him. He's done it more than once. I don't really care if a guy puts on a dress but I do find this "transvestite" show bizarre.


    by ocean-kat on Fri, 09/27/2019 - 1:37pm


    by artappraiser on Sun, 09/29/2019 - 8:44pm


    by artappraiser on Mon, 09/30/2019 - 3:18am

    Weather report by Hillary Clinton this morning, afterhought tweets inbetween tweets about her new book with Chelsea itled "Gutsy Women":

    The president is a corrupt human tornado.

    — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 30, 2019


    by artappraiser on Mon, 09/30/2019 - 8:18pm

    Er, just to be safe, shouldn't they claim it well before the end of the month?

    Euromillions £170m jackpot won by UK ticket holder 6 hours ago @ BBC News

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    by artappraiser on Wed, 10/09/2019 - 12:17am

    Change in taxes due could be huge.


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/09/2019 - 12:23am