God Bless America

It's October 20, 2025 as you read this. But it's October 17, 2025 as I write this. One day before the next No Kings/No Fuhrers protest, which promises to be bigger, louder and more vociferous than the previous two. Pardon me for breaking out the 4 syllable words, but I like to keep the Red Hats who might read this on their toes. 

As you are reading this digital missive, I could very well be sitting in a cage. In El Salvador. Or Burundi. Or even Pico Rivera, as the government is low on funds right now and can't fly ne'erdowells like myself to faraway continents.

Maybe I'm being hyperbolic. Maybe our Constitution -- what's left of it -- will hold, and my vigorous exercise of the 1st Amendment will go unpunished. Who knows? I do know that for the first time in my life, I find myself checking in with the more mature parts of my brain and asking, "do I really want to say that?"

If only I had done that while I was a working copywriter.

But just as my Dad was a convicted felon for rocking the boat while in the US Army, I'm not given to restraint. 

To wit, Ms.Muse and I and Foothill friends will be on the rugged streets of Pasadena bearing signs of our boiling political discontent...

To be clear, I never mentioned any names here, 

I only offered to defray the cost. 

So spare me the sanctimony.

OK, here I did employ a telling graphic,

but please note the understatement.

This sign may be a little obscure, but not to

fans of Mel Brooks who are familiar with the 

Franz Liebkind character played by Kenneth Mars.

For your frame of reference, here's a video clip from the original 1967 movie that left an indelible impression on a young Jewish man who had just begun learning of the atrocities of World War II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJce5gnCx_k

The irony here is that the seeds of fascism that were planted in Deutschland in the 1930's have begun sprouting here in the land of the free and not so brave. 

Where are the ammo-sexuals who so vehemently cling to the 2nd Amendment as a deterrence to tyranny and executive overreach? Why aren't they up in arms about a government that is rounding up citizens on the street, attacking the press and demanding fealty to a pedophile who also happens to be a convicted felon?

Oh yeah, they're enjoying their melanin-free privilege, sitting at a Cracker Barrel and stuffing Double Chicken Fried Steak down their gullets.