Hammer Mill Days

Drat. Scuttled by a solar flare. That was a serious oversight on the part of that person we put in charge of planning our interstellar tour. Who was that again? Let's see .... oh, right. It was me. Well ... no ice cream for me tonight. Okay, well ... looks like we're having the interstellar version of a rainy-day schedule today, but instead of coloring books and tunafish sandwiches, let's break open the November episode of our THIS IS BIG GREEN podcast and see what's crawling around inside. Ned Trek 30: "The Deadly Queers". This thirtieth episode of our Star Trek parody is based on the classic episode " The Deadly Years ", in which the Enterprise command crew is affected by radiation that quickly turns them all into raving geezers. In our version, radiation causes the Free Enterprise crew to become progressively more gay - a fate worse than death for our hyper-conservative, free market, confederate flag-waving heroes. There's a lot of tastel...

After shock comes anger. I don't think I'll move on to negotiating - anger seems about right, particularly with the news emanating from President-Elect Trump's transition team. His closest adviser will be the spiritual leader of one of the alt-right's most popular web sites, Breitbart, so you know this is going to be a volatile time from the standpoint of those issues Breitbart tends to report on. Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, perhaps? That would certainly put black people's minds at ease. I think Trump may be considering Cap'n Crunch for secretary of the Navy. Sounds like a good pick, though he's rumored to have a crunchberry problem. Okay, so what will Trump's victory mean from a policy standpoint? Well, if he's anything remotely true to his word, we are likely to see the most reactionary policies ever advance in our lifetimes passed through congress and signed into law. This is not just about Trump - this is about a extremist Republican par...