Instead of an offshoot of some news item this early-evening Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — and there’s a shitload in way-many genres and categories — just a gut-clutching guffaw off something wonderfully and intrinsically simple-minded.
Smart-ass intellect (great h/t tengrain):
10/10, no notes. pic.twitter.com/KIlPRGvaz9
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) February 15, 2024
I had to Google the two definitions, but what a marvelous jolt when they came together. Just what the mental-health doctor would have ordered to compensate for the really, really shitty day in news events around this country. Especially in sound and fury. The horror of T-Rump and Republicans’ charges against governing and the system of American democracy — all in the asshole nothingness-shit of lying witnesses and overheated lawyers.
Words are beyond semantics:
Cultural anthropologist weighs in. pic.twitter.com/83bA9b2dyw
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 16, 2024
Asshole!
Wordsmiths don’t make it easy — from 40 years ago:
Locution too dumb, or not, yet here we are once again…
(Illustration out front: Salvador Dalí’s ‘Galatea of the Spheres,’ found here.)