The opening days of deer hunting season are one of my favorite childhood memories. Our whole Tamil Brahmin subcaste would gather around across multiple generations and shoot a 12-point buck.
Whether you’re stalking this year with those you live with or over Zoom, happy hunting!
As your VP-Elect, Gay Pride Month is one of my favorite childhood memories. Grandpa P.V. Gopalan had a huge smile on his face all June in anticipation of the big parade thru Chennai.
Whether you’re fisting this year with those you live with or over Zoom, happy Gay Pride Month!
Our Ramadan feasts are one of my favorite childhood memories. Grandma Gopalan would cook the pork roast in wine sauce and we'd gather around across multiple generations and gorge all afternoon. Whether you’re fasting this year with those you live with or over Zoom, happy Ramadan!
Our St. Patrick's Day pub crawls are one of my favorite childhood memories. We'd gather around across multiple generations & hammer back Guinnesses until Grandpa Gopalan would take a shillelagh to my da's skull. Whether you’re drinking alone or over Zoom, happy St. Patty's Day!
Our Rath Yatra chariot processions are one of my favorite childhood memories. All of Tamil Nadu would gather around across multiple generations. The crowd would get so pushy that several worshippers would usually slip and be crushed beneath the wheels of the Car of Juggernaut.
Our Orangemen's Day celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories. On the Glorious Twelfth, the whole clan would gather around across multiple generations and march thru Papist neighborhoods singing loyalist paramilitary songs about how we won the Battle of the Boyne.
Our Bank Holiday celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories. The whole family would gather around across multiple generations and thank banks for being where the money is.
Whether you’re celebrating this year with those you live with or over Zoom, happy Bank Holiday!
Our Boxing Day celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories. The whole family'd gather around across multiple generations, lace up the gloves and have a donnybrook, last man standing.
Whether this year you’re punching those you live with or over Zoom, happy Boxing Day!
Our Cinco de Mayo celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories. The whole Harris family would gather around, put on our pointy boots, and do the Mexican Hat Dance.
Whether you’re lowriding this year with those you live with or over Zoom, happy Cinco de Mayo!
Our Casimir Pulaski Day celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories of growing up in a Chicago steel mill neighborhood. The whole Harris-Gopalan family would gather around across multiple generations after our shifts and we’d eat whatever it is us Polish people eat.
Oh look, while Googling "What do Poles eat?" I found out Casimir Pulaski was a transwoman (transman? I can never remember). I'll have to tell Joe. He's really into weird historical stuff he can use in speeches, like how a black man invented the light bulb. palisadeshudson.com/2019/04/one-of…
Willie Brown always told me that if I wanted to succeed in San Francisco politics, I'd have to learn the difference between a transwoman and a transman because they are really touchy about that stuff.
But I never did.
Yet, look who's going to be Vice President now, Willie!
Moderna doesn't report quite so high Vaccine Efficacy for over 65s: 86.4%.
"The VE in this analysis when stratified by age
group was 95.6% (95% CI: 90.6%, 97.9%) for participants 18 to <65 years of age and 86.4%
(95% CI: 61.4%, 95.5%) for participants ≥65 years of age."
"Throughout the safety follow-up period to date, there
were three reports of facial paralysis (Bell’s palsy) in the vaccine group and one in the placebo
group"
I think Pfizer had 4 Bell's Palsy in vaccine and 0 in placebo, so that's 7 cases for 35k inoculated with either.
Joe Biden, Esq.: "And let's have a big hand for Kamala Harris, the first Vice-President to be black and American Indian. I mean, Native Indian. No, she's American-Asian. Sorry, Asian-Asian. I mean, she's a Person of Colored. Just look at her!"
I look forward to Joe trying to remember the phrase "Tamil Brahmin" in reference to Harris:
"Kamala, I'm proud to say, is America's first ever Vice President to be Top Ramen."
And who can forget Joe Biden's moving eulogy for George Floyd?
"We are gathered here today to remember our dearly beloved Boy George. I mean, Pink Floyd."
“That bastard isn’t gonna get away with this. I mean, what is going on in this country when a scumsucker like that can get away with sandbagging a Doctor of Education? You're talking to a Doctor of Education!” -- Dr. Jill Biden, "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '20"
"You scurvy shyster bastard," I said. "Watch your language! You're talking to a Doctor of Education!...Pay no attention to this swine," I said to the hitchhiker. "He can't handle the medicine. Actually, we're both Doctors of Education ..."
-- Dr. Jill Biden
We were somewhere around DC on the edge of the city when the drugs began to take hold. And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car. "What are these goddamn animals?"
In solid blue California, 2 men indicted on 41 counts of submitting 8,000 fraudulent voter registrations this year in plot to be elected mayor of ho-hum Hawthorne, CA.
This guy running for mayor of Hawthorne, CA submitted 8,000 fraudulent voter registrations over the summer in a city where no more than 30,000 votes were cast in the mayor's race on 11/3/2020.
Looking into the vote fraud indictments in Hawthorne, CA, I see that Carlos Antonio De Bourbon-Montenegro advertises himself as "I am a Ceremonial High Magician & Occult Book Author. I am an initiate of the sacred mysteries of Afro-Brazilian Quimbanda."
In "Borat," "Kazakhs" stand in, in Sacha Baron Cohen's mind, for his ancestral enemies, the Cossacks (the Christian Slavic cavalrymen whose pogrom ruins the wedding of the daughter of Tevye, whom SBC played in a Cambridge production of "Fiddler on the Roof").
If you're wondering, Cossacks were Christian Russian serfs who ran away to the Russian-Islam steppe frontier, where they adopted the horseback-lifestyle of their Muslim Kazakh enemies. Later, they became the Czar's light cavalry, and were notorious during anti-Semitic pogroms.
It's funny that, despite the immense amount of cultural commentary generated by critics trying to explain Sacha Baron Cohen's "Borat" movies, virtually no critics noticed that SBC makes fun of "Kazakhs" as vengeance on Cossacks.