Trump, Tweets, Twix and Beto, MotherF____r!

The Schloss-Blog does not want to nor like to delve into politics too often, but politics keep knocking on the Schloss-Blog door.

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Donald Trump is in f__kin' trouble and ain't it grand.

He's been caught with top-secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort residence that he wasn't supposed to have there and been caught changing the excuses for why he had them 

*Didn't have them became didn't know he had them became didn't know they were classified 

*Which became his power to automatically declassify anything 

*Which became his standing order to declassify anything he took with him became FBI "raided" and "stormed" the property 

*Which became the FBI planted top-secret documents 

*Which became...

He's a lying ass and he's been caught. Problem is, this has put the FBI, the DOJ and the overseeing judge under threat of assault.

Much of it is from Republicans in Congress, no less, who couldn't cheer on the FBI quickly nor loudly enough when it was investigating Hillary Clinton.

Hypocritical assholes.

If you support them, if you believe them, then you want to live in a society where your freedoms are restricted, unprotected, and your life, when in danger, is not protected by credible law enforcement at any level.

Good luck with that.

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Or, as Beto O'Rourke put it at a Texas town hall event about gun control and gun safety relating to the horrific Uvalde grade school shooting to someone who heckled him, “It may be funny to you, motherfucker, but it is not funny to me.” 

Problem is, people vote for these motherfuckers.

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OK, enough about Trump.

Polio has been found in waste water in New York.

People, get vaccinated. Get your kids vaccinated. You, the non-vaxxers, you're going to kill people. Even Trump got vaccinated.

Damn it, said I wouldn't but I just mentioned Trump.

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The government response to monkeypox is late, as was the response to COVID-19. The response to the former is red tape, to which the CDC admitted.

The latter was Trump's failure to attack it soon enough.

Damn it, did it again.

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OK, as far from politics as you can get: how would you handle this - ahem - delicate situation?

In a recent Miss Manners post (she has freakin' hysterical stuff), the kindly, gentle columnist was presented with a predicament by a letter writer who said a guest she invited to dinner declined, but said she would come by and pick up a to-go plate instead.

Really.

Would you have complied (hah) with that request?

And look, no mention of Donald Trump.

Damn it...

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you Mrs. Robinson.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.

Lies of the Desert; Life Without Vin

The Schloss-Blog is distressed today, over the primary results in Arizona and over the loss of two sports giants: Vin Scully and Bill Russell.

In The Valley, where I winter, and more, I will now have a different feel when I'm out and about.

Because "Big Lie" candidates won their primary races, it means a certain truth abounds out there in the desert.

It means when I go grocery shopping at nearby Fry's and Safeway stores, half the people in there shopping with me voted for Donald Trump and his acolytes, Kari Lake for the Republican gubernatorial nomination and Blake Masters for U.S. Senate.

It means roughly half of the people in line waiting with me to pick up prescriptions at the local CVS will vote for these people who believe the Big Lie.

It means half the people sitting in the stands at football games I go to believe in and will vote for candidates who promote the Big Lie.

It means the same for half the coaches and half the parents of the players,

It means at my favorite restaurants in The Valley: Base and Pomo for pizza; Chelsea's Kitchen for scrumptious eclectic menus and Starbucks for my favorite White Chocolate Mocha with coconut milk or Hot Chocolate with soy milk, half the patrons will vote to support the Big Lie.

It means at my health club, The Village, a comprehensive, enormous splendor with workouts for everyone from yoga to tennis to competitive swimming to every piece of equipment imaginable, half the people in there will vote to support the Big Lie.

When I go to Sky Harbor Airport to catch a flight or am there getting off one, half the people picking someone up or dropping someone off or being picked up or dropped off will be Big Lie advocates.

It means what my friend Larry told me one of the first times we went out to eat with him and his wife in The Valley, was to be careful about what we say about politics in an open space about the likes of Donald Trump unless I want to start a fight in a public.

These politicians promote "The Big Lie" even though they know it's not true, proven to not be true. Yet they spoon feed it to a lot of very amazingly gullible people in Arizona, despite the mainstream Arizona media regularly cautioning them that it has never been proven and no shred of evidence exists to support it.

Bottom line: all these people who think voting is fraudulent went out and voted.

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Vin Scully spent 67 years calling Dodgers games, in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. He called the occasional football game, including "The Catch" by Dwight Clark, as well as golf tournaments and all sorts of other events.

No one had his vocabulary, nor his grace. At his last game, players for both the Dodgers and Giants stood on the field and applauded him.

But he'll be with the Dodgers forever - "It's time for Dodger baseball," will forever be the team's opening line on its telecasts.

His legacy of class goes far beyond that.

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I despised Bill Russell. He died at 88.

Best defensive center ever, probably. Never played against Kareem though.

But in addition to basketball glory, he stood up for civil rights and at times endured harsh treatment as a Black man playing in Boston, where, at times in his career and since, it is still 1948.

He won 11 championships in 13 trips to the NBA Finals, crushing the hopes of my Knicks along the way too many times.

However, on his stance for equality, I commend him wholeheartedly.

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Median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in NYC is now $4,000 per month.

I don't think I wanna' move back.

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45 and 440 - the only numbers you need to know. Speak for themselves.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Happy birthday, @ChadManis. Welcome back, @RonaGindin. 

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show. 

Further Differences Between Mean & Women

The Schloss-Blog presents a re-visitation of or the further differences between men and women.

Recently, the Schloss-Blog noticed even more differences between men and women than previously noted in a blog post a couple of years ago, when we noticed, for example, that men wear jeans and women wear jeans that fit.

Now though, for instance...

Men go to dinner and talk about sports.

And sex.

Women go to dinner and talk about gardening, shopping, favorite restaurants, favorite travel spots, prospective weekend getaways and fashion trends.

And why do men only talk about sports.

And sex.

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KANSAS!

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Footnote: men don't go dinner. They go to a bar with lots of TV screens to watch sports, drink and order wings and pigs in a blanket and call it dinner.

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A tuxedo is supposed to, even should make a man look good. Maybe even sexy.

A woman can look good and sexy - in anything!

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Men read magazines.

OK, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

Women read Cosmo, Good Housekeeping, Elle, Vanity Fair, Vogue and health, health, health.

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KANSAS!

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Men like catchy dance tunes.

Women know how to dance to them.

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Driving around, men like to sing along with popular songs they hear on the radio.

Women know the lyrics.

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KANSAS!

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Men's favorite magazine bylines are Irina Shayk, Bar Refaeli and Nina Agdal.

Women's are Maureen Dowd, Michelle Goldberg and Rachel Maddow.

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Curious note: could the Swimsuit Issue models who pose only in swimwear painted on them so well it looks real get into and be served in a restaurant or bar like that?

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Men go to a game... and watch it on their phones.

Women go to a game, talk to each other, check their phones and then watch the game and explain it to their kids.

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Men watch MSNBC, CNN and Fox News, think they know everything, and then go vote.

Women gather everything they can about the candidates and the issues.

And then go vote.

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Men are pro-choice.

Women understand all the implications and complications being caused to health care by being denied pro-choice.

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Men go to a game and scream J-E-T-S! Jets! Jets! Jets!

Women go to a game and scream J-E-T-S! Jets! Jets! Jets! and get me a hot chocolate, please.

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KANSAS!

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson. Definitely, to you.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.

Of Mickey, 50ths, Dean Martin and Raphael Warnock for President

The Schloss-Blog is thinking of things all over the place today, from rapper Mickey Avalon to singer Dean Martin to Raphael Warnock for President and all things in between.

Played golf yesterday with my friend Brian. Had a hole in one (no, I didn't).

It was his 60th birthday and it was my job to keep him out of the house while his wife set up his milestone birthday surprise party.

Almost didn't pull it off, but we had a great round and it worked - he was surprised. And I didn't have to park around the corner from his house so he wouldn't recognize my car.

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Families of victims of 9/11 sent a letter to Donald Trump, letting him know in no uncertain terms about how they feel about his hosting the Saudi-sponsored LIV tour this weekend at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf course.

A lot of great golfers have signed on to that tour.

Fuck them and the terror-sponsoring, human rights-denying, journalism-killing assholes paying them.

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News junkie that I am, I've been thinking about all the things I miss about the short life of CNN+.

Haven't thought of anything yet.

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Jewish rapper Mickey Avalon did a great show at the Social Club last weekend in West Chicago. No, he doesn't do it in Yiddish.

But he is talented and has a message that young people deserve their kind of music and it's OK to drop an F-bomb in there every once in a while. His dancer. Lizzy, a stunningly beautiful blonde, is a virtual gymnast on stage alongside him, prosthetic leg and all. 

Mickey has respect for the great rappers who preceded him and/or are his contemporaries. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to him pay tribute to them in is mood, his attitude, his presence and his lyrics.

Amen.

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Is it just me, or does just about every commercial I see on TV these days include Dean Martin singing a song?

Yikes.

Is he that popular or are they rebooting the Matt Helm spy series of movies in which he starred? Speaking of which, Ryan Gosling is starring in the Gray Man spy series. His character's name is - not making this up - '6,' well, actually "Sierra 6," but '6' for short.

He's also going to play "Ken" in the "Barbie" flick, opposite Margot Robbie in the title role. Click on the link for a peek.

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Raphael Warnock for president.

Seriously.

He's a man of god (a pastor).

He's already a Georgia senator, gaining valuable political experience.

And he's a level-headed Democrat.

His opponent for the senate seat he holds believes that our clean air has blown over to China and China's bad air has blown over to Georgia.

Really.

The former Heisman Trophy winner also believes that if man evolved from apes, how come there are still apes? Seriously.

The race for that Senate seat in Georgia is tight, which ought to tell you everything you need to know about the IQ level of so many Republican Trump voters in Georgia (see Greene, Marjorie Taylor).

Republican senate and gubernatorial this year candidates are Donald Trump on steroids.

Anyway, Warnock is not Joe Biden, who, apparently, nobody wants to run for a second term, Reconciliation Bill being so close to passage notwithstanding..

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Thirty years ago, Dan and Dave were duking it out in commercials for the decathalon.

At the Barcelona Olympics.

Except Dan didn't qualify and Dave didn't win anyway.

All Reebok got out of it was egg on its face for the campaign.

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It's the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the legislation that ensures that women have equal rights to funding and facilities at schools that receive federal aid.

Republicans have tried to rewrite it at every seminal anniversary, especially during the 'W' administration.

But women have prevailed. Now, 10 times more girls participate in sports at the high school level than when the act was passed.

The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team now gets the much-deserved consummate pay of the men's team it so deserves.

Women rock the sports world. And they deserve more and better. And will get it.

Now though, about Roe... wonder if the Supreme Court realizes that its ruling has actually endangered more women's and babies' lives than they believe it may have saved.

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On a lighter note, a Texas brothel recently went out of business and put this sign on its door to prospective walk-in customers: "Beat it. We're closed."

Can't make up this stuff.

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More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show, and Sunday morning as I sit in for Joe Catanzaro. Join me for a cup of coffee.

And then a nightcap.

Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Title IX.