“I get a sound of thunder, it’s like a heavy gong. I hear a storm warning on every tongue made of silver, every heel made of high, every dress made of tight, every look, every sigh.” From Dose of You, written by Nick Lowe.

Hey, Happy New Year! And while I’m at it, can you do me a favor?

Please do not say “2026 can’t be any worse than 2025.” Last year really sucked, but please don’t even think it can’t get any worse. I fully trust the Lords and Ladies of Irony to do their job, and regardless of your native tongue they speak pure sarcasm.

January 1st was just the way I wanted to start the new year. It was a bright and sunny day, a bit chilly by local standards and few people were on the road. I sailed through my trip to the supermarket and I drove home with the news President Trump’s doctors told him to cut back on the aspirin. He refused, saying “I want nice, thin blood.”

I couldn’t ask for a better way to start the year. And I hope Del Close will forgive me, but… yes, but…

It’s going to take a shitload of stamina to make it through 2026.

Leading this nation into hell is a comic book villain with blatantly obvious mental, emotional, behavioral, and developmental disorders. A habitual liar, a rapist, a person who by his own words protects people who rape children. A man who is so xenophobic he wants to deport everybody who isn’t a white Anglo-Saxon, including American citizens. He rips children from their families, and in all too many cases these families never see their children again.

I wonder. What happened to those kids? We know some are no longer alive. How did they die?

Trump is very pissed that Barack Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize, and he didn’t. That’s not even his most jejune stance. He ripped down a large chunk of our White House to build a throne room that cannot be finished in his lifetime, a mausoleum in his own “honor.”

But, then again, his illegal invasion of a sovereign nation, kidnapping its dictator, and then declaring that he now runs Venezuela makes him a conqueror — perhaps Putin has dibs on Poland. But FIFA’s gonna have to schedule another game if Trump wants a second “peace prize.”

It’s become so bad that its getting through to a few MAGAts. Not many in Washington except (now) former Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who came out against Trump for failure to advance her Christian Nationalist agenda. To be fair, she. almost alone among her peers, seems upset about all that pederasty stuff. Continue reading “Brainiac On Banjo: May Auld Annoyances Be Distraught” →