Ticket to Ride

The celebs have gotten themselves a “Ticket to Ride” out of the country should Donald J. Trump be elected President.  Will we miss them?  A lot?  Or not so much?  Here’s the rogues gallery.

The Beatles – “Ticket to Ride” (Live at Wembley Stadium) 1965

Vincente Fox – Statesman at Large

Read Politico’s article, “Vicente Fox: Trump turning U.S. back to days of ‘gringo feo’“, and you would think the Mexican-American War had begun anew.

vincente_fox_pinata“Absolutely, yes. And we suffered from that all along the 20th century,” Fox said, mentioning the likes of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, as well as the Perons and the Kirchners of Argentina. “And I’m surprised this nation is going back to the old days of the gringo feo, of the ugly American but also going back to populism.”

But consider.  This so-called “Statesman”, Vincente Fox, calls a US Presidential candidate ‘brainless’, then smashes that candidate’s pinata effigy, and Politico has the chutzpah to quote him about his opinions of “Ugly Americans”?? Now if the shoe was on the other foot and the “Ugly American” candidate was Hillary Clinton, perhaps the story would have been different.

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Oh, wait a minute. Hillary left that shoe in a ditch back at the World Trade Center Memorial Service. My bad self.

Daily Darwin – Cable Would Have Been a Better Choice

Darwin says that if you had not been so stubborn and had listened to your wife when she told you to get cable, things would have worked out much better for your genomes.  Happy wife, happy genomes.

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Natural selection deems that some individuals serve as a warning to others. Who are we to disagree? The next generation, ever and anon, is descended from the survivors

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